KAINOS SOFTWARE LIMITED
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Cash
£833K
-86% vs 2024
Net assets
£11M
-39.1% vs 2024
Employees
1,437
-0.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£64M
+70% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £196,642,000 | £195,987,000 | -0.3% | |
| Operating profit | £12,921,000 | £4,011,000 | -69% | |
| Profit before tax | £37,598,000 | £63,899,000 | +70% | |
| Net profit | £34,382,000 | £62,839,000 | +82.8% | |
| Cash | £5,950,000 | £833,000 | -86% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £20,675,000 | £12,925,000 | -37.5% | |
| Net assets | £18,268,000 | £11,117,000 | -39.1% | |
| Equity | £18,268,000 | £11,117,000 | -39.1% | |
| Average employees | 1,443 | 1,437 | -0.4% | |
| Wages | £109,604,000 | £102,563,000 | -6.4% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £288,000 | £355,000 | +23.3% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.6% | 2.0% | |
| Net margin | 17.5% | 32.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 62.5% | 31.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 73.8% | 83.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.26x | 1.12x | |
| Interest cover | — | 36.14x |
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 1 time since incorporation
- KAINOS SOFTWARE LIMITED 2000-01-01 → present
- CHARNECO LIMITED 1986-04-14 → 2000-01-01
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- KPMG
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Having reviewed the future plans and projections for the Company and its current financial position, the Directors believes that Company is well placed to manage its business risks successfully. The Company has adequate financial resources, no borrowings, a good level of recurring revenue, and a broad spread of customers. As a consequence of these factors and having reviewed the forecasts for the coming year, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, a period of not less than 12 months from the date of this report. For this reason, it continues to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- KAINOS SOFTWARE LIMITED · parent
- Kainos Software Ireland Limited 100%
- Kainos Software Poland Spólka z.o.o* 100%
- Kainos Poland Services Spólka z.o.o 100%
- Kainos Evolve Limited* 100%
- Kainos Worksmart Limited* 100%
- Kainos Worksmart Inc. 100%
- Kainos Worksmart GmbH 100%
- Kainos Worksmart ApS 100%
- Kainos Trustees Limited * 100%
- Kainos Managers Limited * 100%
- Kainos Worksmart Canada Inc 100%
- Kainos Worksmart SAS 100%
- Kainos WorkSmart OY 100%
- Formulate Kainos Limited 100%
- Kainos Planning, LLC 100%
- KW Software Oy 100%
- Kainos AB 100%
- Kainos the Netherlands B.V. 100%
- Kainos Belgium BV 100%
- Kainos OÜ 100%
- Kainos Worksmart S.R.L. 100%
- Kainos AS 100%
- Blackline Group, Inc. 100%
- Kainos Argentina S.A.U. 100%
- Kainos (Philippines) Inc. 100%
- Kainos cell, Mangrove Insurance Guernsey PCC Limited 100%
- Kainos Software Technologies Private Limited 100%
- Kainos Australia Pty Limited 100%
- RapidIT - Cloudbera, Inc 100%
Significant events
- “In March 2025, the government announced its intention to abolish NHS England and take the health service in England back into direct government control. This is expected to take place over a two-year period and is likely to result in some disruption to the market during that time.”
- “During the year our conversations focused on the downward revision of our trading expectations (October and November 2024) and in the change in CEO (December 2024).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 29 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BURNS, Grainne | Secretary | 2015-06-10 | — | — |
| MCCANN, Richard Henry | Director | 2011-03-07 | Sep 1964 | British |
| MOONEY, Brendan, Dr | Director | 2024-12-11 | Feb 1967 | British |
Show 29 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURNS, Grainne | Secretary | 2008-08-13 | 2010-09-24 |
| HAMILL, Paul | Secretary | 2010-09-24 | 2011-12-13 |
| HILES, James Edward | Secretary | 2011-12-13 | 2015-06-10 |
| MAGILL, Daniel Thomas | Secretary | 1986-04-14 | 2008-08-13 |
| BAIRD, Brian | Director | 1986-04-14 | 2001-03-29 |
| BURNESS, Phillippa | Director | 1986-04-14 | 2000-03-16 |
| CARTIN, Edward | Director | 1986-04-14 | 2004-07-22 |
| ELLIOTT, Ian Charles | Director | 2001-06-28 | 2002-03-31 |
| EWAN, James Gordon | Director | 2000-05-17 | 2001-06-28 |
| GANNON, Paul | Director | 2014-01-02 | 2022-06-17 |
| GANNON, Paul | Director | 2006-10-25 | 2014-01-01 |
| GIBSON FRSA, BSC(HONS), Of Fifield Timothy John, Lord | Director | 2003-10-23 | 2007-09-28 |
| GILMORE, Alan Ross | Director | 1986-04-14 | 2001-09-04 |
| GRAHAM, Francis Stuart | Director | 1986-04-14 | 2015-07-10 |
| KELLS, Ronald David | Director | 1986-04-14 | 2005-03-16 |
| LILLYWHITE, John George, Dr | Director | 1986-04-14 | 2019-09-26 |
| LIOULIAS, Panayiotis | Director | 2004-07-22 | 2011-11-30 |
| MAGILL, Daniel Thomas | Director | 2001-09-13 | 2011-03-07 |
| MOONEY, Brendan, Dr | Director | 2000-08-15 | 2023-09-21 |
| MORGAN, Clive Nicholas | Director | 2002-05-30 | 2003-10-28 |
| MORRIS, Kenneth John | Director | 2004-11-19 | 2005-07-26 |
| MURPHY, Owen Gerard | Director | 2000-03-16 | 2009-04-06 |
| O'KANE, James Patrick Jude | Director | 2011-11-30 | 2015-07-06 |
| RENNICK, Deborah | Director | 2009-06-30 | 2011-08-23 |
| SHIELD, Desmond | Director | 2002-09-18 | 2003-09-02 |
| SLOAN, Russell | Director | 2023-09-21 | 2024-12-11 |
| STEVENSON, Neil Duncan | Director | 2001-03-29 | 2004-06-21 |
| TAYLOR, Andrew Jonathan Mark | Director | 2011-10-19 | 2014-08-28 |
| WRIGHT, John Robertson | Director | 2006-10-04 | 2013-10-24 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kainos Group Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 227 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-09 | RP04TM01 | officers | Second filing of director termination with name | |
| 2023-10-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-31 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-11-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-11-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-06 | EH05 | capital | Elect to keep the members register information on the public register | |
| 2021-08-04 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2020-09-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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.