Software companies in Leeds 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 45 companies that qualified are shown.
- Companies qualified
- 45 of 3,796
- Ranked first
- AIRE LOGIC LIMITED
- Top headcount increase
- +39 employees
- Data as of
Summary
45 software companies with a registered office in Leeds grew their average employees between their latest two annual accounts and met the rules for this list.
AIRE LOGIC LIMITED (opens in a new tab) ranks first, with average employees rising from 210 to 249 (+18.6%).
2 of the 45 listed companies at least doubled their average employees. Together the listed companies went from 1,123 to 1,320 average employees.
Top 10: before and after
- Rank 1 AIRE LOGIC LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 210 (2023) to 249 (2024) +18.6%
- Rank 2 COGNISYS GROUP LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 20 (2023) to 39 (2024) +95.0%
- Rank 3 THE DEXTROUS WEB LTD (opens in a new tab) 110 (2023) to 121 (2024) +10.0%
- Rank 4 CIRCLE TRAINING LTD (opens in a new tab) 5 (2023) to 14 (2024) +180.0%
- Rank 5 PNRC LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 46 (2024) to 55 (2025) +19.6%
- Rank 6 ABSTRACT TECH LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 18 (2023) to 26 (2024) +44.4%
- Rank 7 RETAIL EXPRESS LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 35 (2023) to 43 (2024) +22.9%
- Rank 8 TRUENORTH IT LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 8 (2024) to 15 (2025) +87.5%
- Rank 9 ALSCIENT LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 30 (2023) to 37 (2024) +23.3%
- Rank 10 AVENUE3 LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 6 (2023) to 12 (2024) +100.0%
The ranking
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45 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 Leeds.
- 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 Leeds3,796Not active−607Dormant−239Latest accounts too old or wrongly dated−1,628Figure missing for one of the two years−427Starting figure below the minimum−776No increase−74Figure too large or inconsistent to be reliable−0Qualified for this list45