KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-07-31 (in 2mo)
Last filed for 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-18 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-04
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£10M
-53.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£182M
+24.5% vs 2023
Employees
512
-8.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£29M
+54% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES UK LIMITED 2014-08-01 → present
- AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES UK LIMITED 1999-07-29 → 2014-08-01
- HEWLETT-PACKARD MEASUREMENT UK LIMITED 1999-07-20 → 1999-07-29
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-10-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £185,717,000 | £157,490,000 | |
| Operating profit | £16,327,000 | £21,438,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £18,728,000 | £28,843,000 | |
| Net profit | £24,434,000 | £29,937,000 | |
| Cash | £21,193,000 | £9,778,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £157,133,000 | £193,634,000 | |
| Net assets | £145,945,000 | £181,682,000 | |
| Equity | £145,945,000 | £181,682,000 | |
| Average employees | 562 | 512 | |
| Wages | £37,724,000 | £34,826,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 8.8% | 13.6% | |
| Net margin | 13.2% | 19.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 10.4% | 11.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 29.2% | 18.0% | |
| Current ratio | 2.14x | 3.83x | |
| Interest cover | 29.00x | 67.63x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have concluded that the Company will have adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months following the approval of the financial statements. As such the accounts are presented on the going concern basis.”
Group structure
- KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES UK LIMITED · parent
- Libra (Syscom) Limited 100%
- Anite Limited 100%
- Keysight Technologies Sales Spain S.L 100%
- Reilrop B.V. 100%
Significant events
- “In November 2023 Keysight Technologies Netherlands B.V. acquired 50.6% of the share capital of ESI Group SAS ("ESI Group") and completed the acquisition of the remaining share capital in January 2024, becoming the 100% owner of the ESI Group. As part of the acquisition of the ESI Group the UK operating company, ESI UK Limited, was acquired.”
- “On 1 May 2025, the business activities of ESI UK Limited (trade, assets, liabilities and staff) were sold to the Company under a Business Transfer Agreement for consideration of £ 9,949,000.”
- “In June 2025, a further Buy-In transaction was completed by the Defined Benefit Pension Scheme Trustees. Under the transaction all remaining pensioner liabilities not already covered by existing Buy-In insurance contracts were insured with matching assets.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ERICSON, Simon Anthony | Secretary | 2025-10-04 | — | — |
| ROY, Paul Ian | Director | 2019-02-25 | Jul 1971 | British |
| SMITH, Gareth Brinley | Director | 2024-04-30 | Aug 1970 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWN, Christopher Michael | Secretary | 1999-07-20 | 1999-08-19 |
| HEAD, Thomas William Raleigh | Secretary | 1999-07-20 | 1999-08-19 |
| SIMPSON, Robert Laver | Secretary | 1999-08-19 | 2009-10-31 |
| BILLETT, James Geoffrey | Director | 2014-08-04 | 2018-07-20 |
| DAVIES, Charles Howard | Director | 2014-01-27 | 2014-08-04 |
| GOURLAY, Paul George | Director | 2006-10-09 | 2014-08-04 |
| JOHNSON, Nicholas | Director | 2004-08-01 | 2015-10-31 |
| JUSKIE, Joann | Director | 2019-10-18 | 2025-10-02 |
| MACKIE, Yvonne Margaret | Director | 2004-11-01 | 2014-01-24 |
| MACNAUGHTON, Roy Blair | Director | 2014-08-04 | 2018-09-28 |
| REES, Neil Watkin | Director | 2014-01-27 | 2014-08-04 |
| RENNIE, Christopher Michael George | Director | 2014-08-04 | 2019-10-18 |
| STEWART, James | Director | 1999-08-19 | 2004-07-31 |
| TRIM, Christopher | Director | 2018-07-20 | 2024-04-30 |
| WHITE, Thomas Edward | Director | 1999-07-20 | 2006-07-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keysight Technologies Inc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-10-18 | Active |
| Keysight Technologies, Inc. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-09-25 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 136 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-07 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-10-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-10-27 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2022-08-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-07-20 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2021-06-23 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2021-06-01 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2020-08-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-07-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-10-31 vs 2023-10-31
-
Turnover
-15.2%
£185,717,000 £157,490,000
-
Cash
-53.9%
£21,193,000 £9,778,000
-
Net assets
+24.5%
£145,945,000 £181,682,000
-
Employees
-8.9%
562 512
-
Operating profit
+31.3%
£16,327,000 £21,438,000
-
Profit before tax
+54%
£18,728,000 £28,843,000
-
Wages
-7.7%
£37,724,000 £34,826,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers