Adlib Digital Limited
Registered name: ADLIB DIGITAL LIMITED
Adlib Digital Limited made £6.5m revenue and £461k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Adlib Digital Limited’s revenue fell 15% to £6.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £461k profit and 216 employees. The company is classified under “business and domestic software development” and is based in Slough; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Slough, South East
- Age
- 9 yrs · since 2017
- 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 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.7m | £6.5m |
| Cost of sales | £2.9m | £3m |
| Gross profit | £4.8m | £3.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £426k |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £449k |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £461k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £461k |
| Staff costs | £3.3m | £3.3m |
| Employees (average) | 174 | 216 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 14.1% | 7% |
| Gross margin | 62.7% | 54.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £44.4k | £30.3k |
| Profit per employee | £6.3k | £2.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼15.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼57.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲24.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £1m | £120k |
| Net assets | £223k | £684k |
| Fixed assets | £20.9k | £124k |
| Current assets | £5.2m | £1m |
| Debtors | £96.7k | £0 |
| Deferred income | £370k | £345k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 54.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £30.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0%
- 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
- ▲206%
- Now £684k
- Cash at bank
- ▼88%
- Now £120k
- Headcount
- ▲24%
- Now 216
- Deferred income
- ▼7%
- Now £345k
- Fixed assets
- ▲492%
- Now £124k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £461k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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