We are pleased to publish our 11th annual table of the UK Top 50 IT training providers.

How we compile this listing

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 2009 (i.e. accounts for the year ending sometime between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2009) or cover the 2009 calendar year.

N.B. The 2008 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' 2009 rankings but the percentage change in revenue has been calculated on what we now believe last year's revenues to have been.

TOP 50 UK IT TRAINING PROVIDERS - 2010
Rank 2010		Company	2009 Revenue £m	Est?	Revenue change	Rank 2009
1		QA	82.0		-15%	1
2		IBM Training	21.1	e	-15%	2
3		Learning Tree International	19.9		-17%	3
4		SAP	17.7	e	-14%	4
5		SkillSoft	17.6	e	-2%	6
6		Parity Training	16.0	e	-2%	7
7		ILX Group	14.7	e	-4%	9
8		Assima Group	13.9		-1%	11
9		Oracle University	13.7		-14%	8
10		Global Knowledge	12.5		-13%	10
11		Third Force	9.0		-20%	12
12		RWD Technologies	8.2	e	-20%	14
13		Element K / NIIT	8.0	e	20%	-
14		Redtray	7.9		11%	22
15		FDM Group	7.8		7%	21
16		Firebrand Training	7.7		-5%	15
17		Training Synergy	6.6	e	-16%	16
18		Sun Microsystems	6.5	e	-17%	18
19		HP Education Services	6.0	e	-25%	17
20		Aikona Management	5.9	e	5%	-
21		Arrow ECS	5.7		0%	24
22		Verridian	5.1		6%	27
23		Steria Learning Services	5.0	e	-3%	26
24		Bray Leino BroadSkill	4.9	e	7%	31
25		iTrain	4.8	e	17%	34
26		PremierIT	4.8		4%	29
27		Fast Lane	4.7	e	-23%	23
28		EMC	4.6		-13%	25
29		Symantec Education Services	4.4	e	0%	32
30		Kaplan IT Training	4.4		-21%	-
31		Red Hat	3.5	e	-17%	33
32		Ideal Training	3.5	e	-22%	30
33		Maven Training	3.3		5%	38
34		WDR	3.2		5%	40
35		Afiniti	3.0		-10%	39
36		Brightwave	3.0	e	-21%	36
37		Globaltech Solutions	2.8		8%	42
38		Quanta	2.5	e	-9%	41
39		SAS Software	2.5		-22%	37
40		Floatdene Green	2.4		50%	-
41		Datrix Training	2.4	e	13%	-
42		PPi Learning Services	2.4	e	-66%	19
43		Intellego	2.3		39%	-
44		StayAhead Training	2.2		10%	45
45		WWP Training	2.2		-12%	43
46		New Horizons	2.2	e	-71%	20
47		Happy Computers	2.0	e	-15%	44
48		2e2 Training	2.0		0%	-
49		Interskill Learning	1.9		-17%	47
50		Kaleidoscope Training	1.9	e	-11%	49

For a full review of this listing with notes on who's in and who's out, please see IT Training Magazine Spring Edition.

Thank you

We would like to thank everybody - training providers and others - who has contributed to this project.

If you have any comments or if you believe any aspect of our information is inaccurate or incomplete please let us know by email or by calling Pardo Fox Ltd on 01483 454 363

IMPORTANT: This information has been carefully researched. However, we can not guarantee its accuracy or completeness, and we will not accept liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss arising from its use.

Top 50 2009

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