Saltire Connect Limited
Registered name: SALTIRE CONNECT LIMITED
Part of Skyrora Ventures Limited groupSaltire Connect Limited made £19m revenue and £3.7m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Saltire Connect Limited’s revenue fell 26% to £19m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £3.7m profit and 1 employee. The company is classified under “other information technology service activities” and is based in Edinburgh; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Age
- 9 yrs · since 2017
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £25.7m | £19m |
| Cost of sales | £19.5m | £14.8m |
| Gross profit | £6.1m | £4.2m |
| Operating profit | £5.7m | £3.7m |
| Profit before tax | £5.7m | £3.7m |
| Profit after tax | £5.7m | £3.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £5.7m | £3.7m |
| Employees (average) | 1 | 1 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 22.4% | 19.5% |
| Gross margin | 24% | 22.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £25.7m | £19m |
| Profit per employee | £5.7m | £3.7m |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼25.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼35.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £4.8m | £752k |
| Net assets | £6.1m | £4.2m |
| Current assets | £7.1m | £5.2m |
| Debtors | £2.3m | £1.4m |
| Deferred income | £813k | £698k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 19.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £19m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.7m
- 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
- 3.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7.3%
- 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
- ▼31%
- Now £4.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼84%
- Now £752k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 1
- Deferred income
- ▼14%
- Now £698k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Skyrora Ventures Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Saltire Connect Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (9)
- Blue Trident Holdings LtdFigures not disclosed
- Ecosene LtdFigures not disclosed
- Enatech LtdFigures not disclosed
- HTP Chemical LtdFigures not disclosed
- Orbitalytics Services LtdFigures not disclosed
- Orbitonix LtdFigures not disclosed
- Responsive Access LtdFigures not disclosed
- Skyrora LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Softhetic Development LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £3.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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