Cipher Group Limited
Registered name: CIPHER GROUP LIMITED
Cipher Group Limited made £17.8m revenue and £933k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Cipher Group Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £17.8m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £933k profit. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Sheffield; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2016
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £15.3m | £15.9m | £17.8m |
| Cost of sales | −£11.6m | −£9.2m | −£10.1m |
| Gross profit | £3.7m | £6.7m | £7.7m |
| Operating profit | −£1.8m | £625k | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | −£1.9m | £608k | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | −£1.8m | £604k | £933k |
| Profit (best available) | −£1.8m | £604k | £933k |
| Employees (average) | 66 | 60 | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −11.4% | 3.8% | 5.2% |
| Gross margin | 24.2% | 42% | 43.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £232k | £265k | — |
| Profit per employee | −£26.5k | £10.1k | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.9% | ▲12% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲54.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼9.1% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 43.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Cipher International LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £933k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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