Aj Engineering Services Limited
Registered name: AJ ENGINEERING SERVICES LIMITED
Part of Auto Conversions Ltd groupAj Engineering Services Limited made £3.4m revenue and £208k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Aj Engineering Services Limited’s revenue fell 39% to £3.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £208k profit. The company is classified under “manufacture of other transport equipment” and is based in Openshaw; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Openshaw, North West
- Age
- 22 yrs · since 2004
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit & loss | Profit & loss | Profit & loss | Profit & loss | Profit & loss |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £3.5m | £3.4m | £4.1m | £5.6m | £3.4m |
| Cost of sales | £2.1m | £2.4m | −£3.3m | −£3.8m | −£2m |
| Gross profit | £1.3m | £1.1m | £760k | £1.7m | £1.4m |
| Operating profit | £404k | £161k | −£205k | £419k | £220k |
| Profit before tax | £404k | £161k | −£200k | £450k | £275k |
| Profit after tax | £328k | £131k | −£153k | £337k | £208k |
| Profit (best available) | £328k | £131k | −£153k | £337k | £208k |
| Employees (average) | 22 | 22 | — | — | — |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 9.4% | 3.8% | −3.8% | 6% | 6.2% |
| Gross margin | 38.4% | 30.5% | 18.7% | 31% | 41.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £158k | £157k | — | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £14.9k | £5.9k | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0.7% | ▲18% | ▲37.1% | ▼39.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼60.2% | ▼216.8% | — | ▼38.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | — | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £1.3m | — | — | — |
| Net assets | £2m | £2.2m | — | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £3.1k | £4.8k | — | — | — |
| Current assets | £2.5m | £3.8m | — | — | — |
| Debtors | £820k | £1.9m | — | — | — |
| Deferred income | £136k | £133k | — | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 41.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Auto Conversions Ltd (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Aj Engineering Services Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £208k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026