QUEST SOFTWARE (UK) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-07 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-24
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£274K
-69.1% vs 2024
Net assets
-£254K
-110.6% vs 2024
Employees
93
-15.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
+18.6% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £22,993,000 | £20,137,000 | |
| Operating profit | £1,515,000 | £1,746,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,521,000 | £1,804,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,121,000 | £1,343,000 | |
| Cash | £886,000 | £274,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £2,403,000 | -£254,000 | |
| Equity | £2,403,000 | -£254,000 | |
| Average employees | 110 | 93 | |
| Wages | £16,104,000 | £13,699,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
-
Turnover
-12.4%
£22,993,000 £20,137,000
-
Cash
-69.1%
£886,000 £274,000
-
Net assets
-110.6%
£2,403,000 -£254,000
-
Employees
-15.5%
110 93
-
Operating profit
+15.2%
£1,515,000 £1,746,000
-
Profit before tax
+18.6%
£1,521,000 £1,804,000
-
Wages
-14.9%
£16,104,000 £13,699,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.6% | 8.7% | |
| Net margin | 4.9% | 6.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 66.8% | 106.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.49x | 0.92x | |
| Interest cover | 24.05x | 48.50x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation
- QUEST SOFTWARE (UK) LIMITED 2016-11-01 → present
- DELL SOFTWARE (UK) LIMITED 2013-06-25 → 2016-11-01
- QUEST SOFTWARE (UK) LIMITED 1999-12-29 → 2013-06-25
- COMMON SENSE COMPUTING (UK) LTD 1993-11-22 → 1999-12-29
- DATABASEPLUS LIMITED 1991-10-24 → 1993-11-22
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors, after making enquiries and having regard to the company's financial position, the company's expected trading performance and cash flows, have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future. The company meets its day-to-day working capital requirements through its cash inflows from operations and intercompany financing. The company is a limited risk distributor using an operating margin model with Quest Software International Limited ("QSIL"), and an intermediate parent undertaking thereafter, in respect of the sale of Quest products and services to customers in the UK territory. Therefore, these financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 35 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSC CLS (UK) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2025-07-21 | — | — |
| LYNE, Aiden Patrick | Director | 2014-12-01 | Jan 1967 | Irish |
Show 35 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CREED, Shirley Ann | Secretary | 2013-01-15 | 2016-10-31 |
| FOLEY, Anthony | Secretary | 2001-05-08 | 2008-04-08 |
| LASKEY, John | Secretary | 1999-05-31 | 2001-05-08 |
| MACHIN, Doran Geoffrey | Secretary | 1997-08-10 | 1999-05-31 |
| SYMINGTON, John Andrew | Secretary | 1994-08-15 | 1997-08-10 |
| WELLS, Mark Benjamin | Secretary | 1991-10-24 | 1994-08-15 |
| CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY (UK) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2023-12-06 | 2025-07-21 |
| DENTONS SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2017-10-27 | 2018-11-01 |
| GRAVITAS COMPANY SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2018-11-01 | 2023-10-24 |
| MACLAY MURRAY & SPENS LLP | Corporate Secretary | 2017-02-15 | 2017-10-27 |
| OVALSEC LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2008-10-23 | 2013-01-15 |
| BOURGOIS, Xavier | Director | 2004-04-29 | 2007-05-14 |
| BROOKS, Kevin | Director | 2004-04-29 | 2008-09-30 |
| CRAMER, David Patrick | Director | 2009-04-15 | 2014-12-01 |
| DE ZANET, Jerome Amour Albert | Director | 2010-05-27 | 2012-07-22 |
| DOYLE, David Michael | Director | 1997-08-12 | 2004-04-29 |
| FOLEY, Anthony | Director | 2001-05-08 | 2009-03-31 |
| FONSECA, Anselm Joseph Paul | Director | 2008-10-23 | 2010-05-07 |
| GARN, Doug | Director | 2007-03-19 | 2009-04-01 |
| GRAHAM, Fraser Stanley | Director | 2009-07-01 | 2010-12-31 |
| JORGENSEN, Jorgen Henrik | Director | 2009-04-15 | 2010-04-13 |
| LUDEKENS, Jeremy Winston | Director | 2007-05-15 | 2007-06-28 |
| MACHIN, Doran Geoffrey | Director | 1997-08-10 | 1999-05-31 |
| MCGOWAN, James Mark | Director | 2012-01-30 | 2018-07-23 |
| NORLIN, Kevin Michael | Director | 2011-05-19 | 2014-12-01 |
| O'MARA, John | Director | 2012-01-30 | 2017-03-03 |
| PATTERSON, Thomas Robert | Director | 2004-04-29 | 2012-05-29 |
| PEARCE, Simon James | Director | 1999-03-18 | 2011-12-15 |
| SMITH, Vincent | Director | 1997-08-12 | 2008-10-23 |
| SYMINGTON, Jannigje Marjan | Director | 1993-10-01 | 1997-08-08 |
| SYMINGTON, John Andrew | Director | 1992-11-01 | 1997-08-10 |
| VELLA, Frank Joseph | Director | 2010-05-27 | 2011-11-10 |
| WELLS, Margriet | Director | 1991-10-24 | 1993-06-30 |
| WILSON, Ronnie | Director | 2014-12-01 | 2014-12-01 |
| WRIGHT, Janet Bawcom | Director | 2014-12-01 | 2016-10-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Behdad Eghbali | Individual | Significant influence | 2022-02-02 | Active |
| Jose Feliciano | Individual | Significant influence | 2022-02-02 | Active |
| Quest Software International Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 194 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-28 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-07-28 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-07-28 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-22 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-01-22 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-12-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-24 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-10-01 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-10-01 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-10-01 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2021-11-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-10-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-09-23 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.