Red Gate Software Group Limited
Registered name: RED GATE SOFTWARE GROUP LIMITED
Part of Rivet Topco Limited groupRed Gate Software Group Limited made £98.1m revenue and £14.9m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Red Gate Software Group Limited’s revenue grew 14% to £98.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £14.9m profit and 561 employees. The company is classified under “business and domestic software development” and is based in Cambridge; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cambridge, East of England
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2016
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £72m | £86.3m | £98.1m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £6.8m | £16.1m |
| Profit before tax | £2.9m | £8.8m | £18m |
| Profit after tax | £3m | £7.6m | £14.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £3m | £7.6m | £14.9m |
| Employees (average) | 499 | 566 | 561 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.2% | 8.8% | 15.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £144k | £152k | £175k |
| Profit per employee | £6k | £13.4k | £26.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲19.9% | ▲13.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲152.7% | ▲97.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲13.4% | ▼0.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 15.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £175k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £26.6k
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now 561
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Rivet Topco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Rivet Midco Limited75–100%
- Rivet Holdco Limited75–100%
- Rivet Bidco Limited75–100%
- Red Gate Software Group Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Red Gate Software 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £14.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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