As we have done in previous years, we gathered the revenues of companies with IT training businesses and excluded sales of training delivered outside the UK and non-IT related business from those companies that offer both types. We also exclude organisations whose revenue is derived principally from publicly funded training or from military/defence-specific IT training, training franchises whose revenues consist only of royalties and training brokers/portals.
Financial results for some of these organisations are on public record. In those cases, we have used the actual turnover figure for their most recently reported financial year. For organisations whose turnover is not published, we have made our best estimate based on the information available to us. These are marked with an “e” in the “Est?” column.
Figures are UK revenues only, are rounded to the nearest £100,000 and relate to fiscal years ending in 2006 (i.e. accounts for the year ending sometime between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2006) or cover the 2006 calendar year.
N.B. The 2005 revenues (used for last year’s Top 50) of a few companies are now known to have been incorrect. We have not, however, altered those companies’ 2006 rankings but the percentage change in revenue has been calculated on what we now believe last year’s revenues to have been.
Year 2007 Ratings :
| Company | 2006 Revenue £m |
Est? | Revenue change |
Rank 2006 |
|
| 1 | QA-IQ | 60.4 | e | 12% | 1/2 |
| 2 | Learning Tree International | 22.5 | e | -5% | 3 |
| 3 | SAP | 19.7 | 9% | 6 | |
| 4 | IBM Training | 19.0 | e | 0% | 5 |
| 5 | Global Knowledge | 18.5 | e | 2% | 11/19 |
| 6 | Parity Training | 18.4 | -8% | 4 | |
| 7 | Logica CMG | 16.5 | e | 10% | 12 |
| 8 | Xpertise Training | 15.9 | 4% | 10 | |
| 9 | Thomson NETg | 15.3 | e | -5% | 8 |
| 10 | Computeach International | 14.2 | e | -11% | 9 |
| 11 | SkillSoft | 14.1 | e | 10% | 14 |
| 12 | Oracle University | 13.0 | e | 17% | 7 |
| 13 | Assima Group | 12.2 | e | 20% | 17 |
| 14 | New Horizons | 11.5 | e | 44% | 21 |
| 15 | Training Synergy | 10.6 | 3% | 15 | |
| 16 | Sun Microsystems | 10.0 | e | 0% | 16 |
| 17 | PPI Learning | 9.7 | e | -31% | 13 |
| 18 | Remarc Group | 9.6 | 16% | 20 | |
| 19 | KnowledgePool | 9.3 | 33% | 22 | |
| 20 | HP Education Services | 9.0 | e | 0% | 18 |
| 21 | Third Force | 8.8 | 24% | 24 | |
| 22 | RWD Technologies | 7.7 | e | -29% | - |
| 23 | The Matchett Group | 7.6 | 7% | 23 | |
| 24 | Business Training Partnership | 7.1 | 61% | - | |
| 25 | The Training Camp | 5.7 | 33% | 25 | |
| 26 | ILX Group | 5.0 | e | 100% | 41 |
| 27 | Steria Training Services | 5.0 | e | 72% | 36 |
| 28 | Afiniti | 4.5 | 221% | - | |
| 29 | BT Training Solutions (NI) | 4.1 | 28% | 32 | |
| 30 | Red Tray | 4.0 | 8% | 26 | |
| 31 | Key Training Solutions | 3.8 | e | 7% | 29 |
| 32 | Symantec Education Services | 3.7 | e | 12% | - |
| 33 | Red Hat | 3.6 | 6% | 30 | |
| 34 | WDR | 3.6 | e | 0% | 27 |
| 35 | Kaleidoscope Training | 3.4 | 41% | 44 | |
| 36 | Sage | 3.3 | e | 0% | 28 |
| 37 | iTrain | 3.2 | 10% | 35 | |
| 38 | BroadSkill | 3.1 | e | 7% | 34 |
| 39 | Fast Lane | 3.0 | e | 200% | - |
| 40 | WWP Training | 2.9 | e | 16% | 40 |
| 41 | DNS Arrow | 2.7 | 4% | 39 | |
| 42 | Northgate Information Systems | 2.5 | e | 14% | - |
| 43 | Happy Computers | 2.4 | e | 9% | 46 |
| 44 | StayAhead Training | 2.4 | 4% | 47 | |
| 45 | Host Computers | 2.4 | e | 0% | 43 |
| 46 | Xansa | 2.4 | -4% | 48 | |
| 47 | PremierIT | 2.3 | 15% | 50 | |
| 48 | FDM Group | 2.3 | 60% | - | |
| 49 | Bytes Technology Group | 2.3 | -8% | 42 | |
| 50 | Ajilon Learning | 2.3 | 10% | 49 |
Year 2006 Ratings :
| Rank 2006 |
Company | FY2005 Revenue £m |
Act / Est | Revenue change |
Rank 2005 |
| 1 | QA | 27.1 | A | 3% | 1 |
| 2 | InterQuad Learning | 26.6 | E | 30% | 5 |
| 3 | Learning Tree International | 23.6 | E | 0% | 4 |
| 4 | Parity Training | 22.5 | E | -5% | 3 |
| 5 | IBM Education Services | 19.0 | E | -22% | 2 |
| 6 | SAP | 18.1 | A | 9% | 7 |
| 7 | Oracle University | 17.7 | E | 13.3% | 9 |
| 8 | Thomson NETg | 16.2 | E | 0% | 8 |
| 9 | Computeach International | 16.0 | E | 10% | - |
| 10 | Xpertise Training | 15.3 | A | 16% | 12 |
| 11 | Azlan | 15.0 | E | 2% | 11 |
| 12 | LogicaCMG | 14.9 | E | 20% | 13 |
| 13 | PPI Learning | 14.0 | E | -1% | 10 |
| 14 | SkillSoft | 12.8 | E | 16% | 6 |
| 15 | Training Synergy | 10.3 | A | 140% | - |
| 16 | Sun Microsystems | 10.0 | E | -8% | 14 |
| 17 | Assima Group | 10.0 | E | 59% | - |
| 18 | HP Education | 9.0 | E | 10% | 16 |
| 19 | Global Knowledge | 8.3 | E | 2% | 15 |
| 20 | Remarc Group | 8.3 | E | 17% | 18 |
| 21 | New Horizons | 8.0 | E | 11% | 17 |
| 22 | KnowledgePool | 7.2 | A | 7% | 19 |
| 23 | The Matchett Group | 7.1 | A | 18% | 21 |
| 24 | Third Force/Electric Paper | 6.3 | E | 9% | 22 |
| 25 | The Training Camp | 4.3 | A | 10% | 24 |
| 26 | Red Tray | 3.7 | A | 810% | - |
| 27 | WDR | 3.6 | E | 3% | 27 |
| 28 | Sage | 3.6 | E | 0% | 25 |
| 29 | Key Training Solutions | 3.5 | E | 0% | 26 |
| 30 | Red Hat | 3.4 | A | 14% | 29 |
| 31 | Learn IT | 3.2 | E | 23% | 33 |
| 32 | BT Training Solutions (NI) | 3.2 | A | 4% | 28 |
| 33 | Computer Associates | 3.0 | E | 7% | 31 |
| 34 | BroadSkill | 2.9 | A | 29% | 42 |
| 35 | iTrain | 2.9 | A | 11% | 35 |
| 36 | Steria Training Services | 2.9 | E | 0% | 30 |
| 37 | Learning IT | 2.8 | A | 17% | 32 |
| 38 | Fuel | 2.8 | A | 73% | 36 |
| 39 | InTechnology | 2.6 | E | 3% | 37 |
| 40 | WWP Training | 2.5 | A | 8% | 43 |
| 41 | ILX Group | 2.5 | A | 144% | - |
| 42 | Bytes Technology Group | 2.5 | A | 24% | - |
| 43 | Host Computers | 2.4 | A | -1% | 41 |
| 44 | Kaleidoscope Training | 2.4 | A | 32% | - |
| 45 | Deverill | 2.3 | A | 92% | - |
| 46 | Happy Computers | 2.3 | A | 28% | 50 |
| 47 | StayAhead Training | 2.3 | A | 5% | 44 |
| 48 | Xansa | 2.3 | E | -10% | 39 |
| 49 | Ajilon Learning | 2.1 | A | 6% | 49 |
| 50 | PremierIT | 2.0 | A | 24% | 34 |