Software companies in Manchester ranked by number of employees
Ranked from each company's filed annual accounts. This list last changed on and was last checked against the data on . Showing the top 50 of 103 companies that qualified.
- Companies qualified
- 103 of 7,920
- Ranked first
- MANAGED IT SERVICES GROUP LTD
- Average employees of no. 1
- 131
- Data as of
Summary
The list is led by MANAGED IT SERVICES GROUP LTD (opens in a new tab) with 131 average employees; NORTHCODERS LIMITED (opens in a new tab) and NQC LIMITED (opens in a new tab) complete the top three.
The ranking uses each company's most recent filed accounts. 103 software companies in Manchester qualified. The top three account for 17.9% of the combined average employees of the listed companies (2,080). The median listed company was incorporated 13 years ago.
The ranking
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50 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 Manchester.
- Periods compared
- Each company's latest annual accounts. The previous year's figure is shown for context and does not affect the ranking.
- Ranking
- Ranked by the average number of employees in the latest filed accounts. Companies with fewer than 10 employees are left out.
- 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:
- 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 Manchester7,920Not active−1,644Dormant−499Latest accounts too old or wrongly dated−3,901Average employees not filed in the latest accounts−589Average employees below 10−1,184Figure too large or inconsistent to be reliable−0Qualified for this list103