CIPHR LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-17
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+25.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£15M
+15% vs 2023
Employees
210
-8.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2M
-37.1% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £20,805,000 | £21,098,000 | |
| Operating profit | £3,209,000 | £2,045,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,209,000 | £2,018,000 | |
| Net profit | £2,846,000 | £1,912,000 | |
| Cash | £1,435,000 | £1,801,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,488,000 | £16,411,000 | |
| Net assets | £12,725,000 | £14,637,000 | |
| Equity | £12,725,000 | £14,637,000 | |
| Average employees | 229 | 210 | |
| Wages | £10,649,000 | £10,586,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £1,023,000 | £598,000 |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+1.4%
£20,805,000 £21,098,000
-
Cash
+25.5%
£1,435,000 £1,801,000
-
Net assets
+15%
£12,725,000 £14,637,000
-
Employees
-8.3%
229 210
-
Operating profit
-36.3%
£3,209,000 £2,045,000
-
Profit before tax
-37.1%
£3,209,000 £2,018,000
-
Wages
-0.6%
£10,649,000 £10,586,000
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 15.4% | 9.7% | |
| Net margin | 13.7% | 9.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 22.1% | 12.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 58.4% | 68.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.48x | 1.25x | |
| Interest cover | — | 75.74x |
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 2 times since incorporation
- CIPHR LIMITED 2016-12-07 → present
- C1PHR (HOLDINGS) LIMITED 2009-10-29 → 2016-12-07
- COMPUTERS IN PERSONNEL (HOLDINGS) LIMITED 2002-12-12 → 2009-10-29
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- CIPHR LIMITED · parent
- Source Shaper Limited
- Avantus Business Solutions Limited
Significant events
- “In May 2024, the Directors were pleased to complete the acquisition of Source Shaper Limited, which has brought an API-first, cloud payroll technology to the Group.”
- “In November 2024, the Directors were pleased to complete the acquisition of Avantus Business Solutions Limited, a provider of benefits technology.”
- “During the year a significant technology re-platforming exercise was commenced, including but not limited to a migration from a private cloud environment to a public cloud environment, alongside enhancements to the core underlying offering and the development of an analytics platform. The analytics platform was launched to market in Q1 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BERRY, Raymond Phillip | Director | 2021-09-01 | Jul 1977 | British |
| LEWIS, Sion David | Director | 2023-02-01 | Feb 1970 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERRY, Christopher Graham | Secretary | 2002-12-12 | 2016-11-08 |
| SECRETARIAL APPOINTMENTS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2002-12-12 | 2002-12-12 |
| BERRY, Christopher Graham | Director | 2002-12-12 | 2023-02-01 |
| BURNS, David James | Director | 2022-11-01 | 2023-05-31 |
| CARWARDINE, Andrew Victor | Director | 2019-01-28 | 2019-04-15 |
| ELLISON, Tracy | Director | 2022-11-01 | 2023-10-31 |
| OEHLERS, Allan James | Director | 2016-05-18 | 2022-12-31 |
| SCOTT, Graeme Nicholas | Director | 2016-11-08 | 2021-08-26 |
| WATSHAM, Peter David | Director | 2002-12-12 | 2016-05-18 |
| CORPORATE APPOINTMENTS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2002-12-12 | 2002-12-12 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ciphr Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-05-18 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 104 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-16 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-21 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-10-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-02-27 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-02-21 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-11-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-02-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-02-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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.