Software companies in Birmingham ranked by employee growth
Ranked from each company's filed annual accounts. This list last changed on and was last checked against the data on . All 44 companies that qualified are shown.
- Companies qualified
- 44 of 5,344
- Ranked first
- TRACER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS LIMITED
- Top headcount increase
- +138 employees
- Data as of
Summary
At the top is TRACER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS LIMITED (opens in a new tab), which went from 78 to 216 average employees, a change of +138 (+176.9%). FORMEL D (UK) LIMITED (opens in a new tab) and THE SAASY PEOPLE LTD (opens in a new tab) complete the top three.
The ranking compares each company's latest two annual accounts. 44 software companies in Birmingham qualified. Across the list, average headcount rose from 1,427 to 1,835. The median listed company was incorporated 9 years ago.
Top 10: before and after
- Rank 1 TRACER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 78 (2023) to 216 (2024) +176.9%
- Rank 2 FORMEL D (UK) LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 306 (2023) to 348 (2024) +13.7%
- Rank 3 THE SAASY PEOPLE LTD (opens in a new tab) 74 (2023) to 96 (2024) +29.7%
- Rank 4 FACEPUNCH STUDIOS LTD (opens in a new tab) 32 (2023) to 53 (2024) +65.6%
- Rank 5 THE PROCESS PLAY LTD (opens in a new tab) 5 (2023) to 21 (2024) +320.0%
- Rank 6 LOVE FINANCE LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 45 (2023) to 59 (2024) +31.1%
- Rank 7 LIMITLESS TRAVEL LTD (opens in a new tab) 17 (2023) to 30 (2024) +76.5%
- Rank 8 SALUS DIGITAL SECURITY LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 22 (2023) to 35 (2024) +59.1%
- Rank 9 DEVI TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 34 (2023) to 46 (2024) +35.3%
- Rank 10 BLUE THORN TECHNOLOGY LTD (opens in a new tab) 30 (2023) to 41 (2024) +36.7%
The ranking
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44 rows, the same as the table. “–” means the figure was not filed.
How this list was made
- Industry
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Companies with any of these SIC codes on their Companies House record:
- 62011 – Ready-made interactive leisure and entertainment software development
- 62012 – Business and domestic software development
- 62020 – Information technology consultancy activities
- 62090 – Other information technology service activities
- 58290 – Other software publishing
- Location
- The post town of the registered office address is Birmingham.
- Periods compared
- Each company's latest annual accounts against its accounts for the year before. Companies whose two latest accounts are not for consecutive years are left out.
- Ranking
- Ranked by the increase in average employees between the latest two consecutive annual accounts, then by percentage increase. Companies must have started with at least 5 average employees.
- Exclusions
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Companies that are dissolved, in liquidation, in administration or proposed to be struck off; dormant companies; and companies whose latest accounts end more than 21 months before the newest accounts in the data (or are dated after it).
Figures that cannot be right, which are most likely filing errors, are also left out:
- headcount more than 10 times the year before
- an employee number identical to the net assets figure, or above 100,000
- more employees than the company's accounts category allows (micro: 50, small: 250, with a margin)
- less than £5,000 of turnover per employee, or a round number of thousands with no turnover to check it against
- Companies checked
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Companies with a matching SIC code in Birmingham5,344Not active−1,028Dormant−409Latest accounts too old or wrongly dated−2,493Figure missing for one of the two years−579Starting figure below the minimum−722No increase−69Figure too large or inconsistent to be reliable−0Qualified for this list44