Osprey Consulting Services Limited
Registered name: OSPREY CONSULTING SERVICES LIMITED
Part of Science Group PLC groupOsprey Consulting Services Limited made £4.3m revenue and £765k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Osprey Consulting Services Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £4.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £765k profit and 29 employees. The company is classified under “engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities” and is based in Cambridge; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cambridge, East of England
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2006
- 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 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5m | £4.6m | £4.3m |
| Operating profit | £877k | £1.3m | £968k |
| Profit before tax | £907k | £1.3m | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £904k | £984k | £765k |
| Profit (best available) | £904k | £984k | £765k |
| Employees (average) | 40 | 33 | 29 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 18.2% | 21.4% | 17.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £124k | £139k | £149k |
| Profit per employee | £22.6k | £29.8k | £26.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼7.8% | ▼5.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲8.8% | ▼22.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼17.5% | ▼12.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data May 2025 | Accounts · bulk data May 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 17.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £149k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £26.4k
- 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
- ▼12%
- Now 29
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Science Group PLCultimate parent75–100%
- Osprey Consulting Services Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (9)
- Critical Maritime Systems & Support LimitedRev. £27.5m · Profit £4.3m
- Leatherhead Research LimitedRev. £7.5m · Profit £3m
- Frontier Smart Technologies LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Oakland Innovation LtdFigures not disclosed
- Quadro Epsom LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Quadro Harston LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Sagentia LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Technology Sciences Group Consulting LimitedFigures not disclosed
- TPG Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
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 £765k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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