Introduction

It's time once again to launch our annual research for the new Top 50. As in previous years, the results will form the basis for a special Top 50 section in IT Training magazine in May. This is your opportunity to have your company listed among the elite of the IT training industry – so please help us by providing your input as soon as possible.

Each company's ranking in the Top 50 will be based on its UK IT training revenues of 2009 which can be either revenues for the financial year ending any time in 2009 or revenues for the calendar year 2009. The choice is yours.

As a guide, the minimum revenue figure to qualify for last year's Top 50 was £2.0 million but, with a number of mergers and acquisitions in 2009 reducing the number of companies and a serious decline in the UK IT training market, the minimum qualifying revenue this year will probably be in the order of £1.5 million.

In addition to compiling the Top 50, we would very much like to use this exercise to refine our analysis of the composition of the total IT training market. Your help would be very much appreciated in compiling this report.

Important

1. The only information that will be published is the company name and URL, this year's and last year's revenues and the percentage change. The name and contact details of the PR contact will be passed to IT Training magazine if it wishes to print a company profile or has other editorial questions. No other data will be passed to any third party and we will only use it to aggregate market statistics. We guarantee the confidentiality of your data.

2. Eligibility for the Top 50 is open to any company whose IT training revenues are derived principally from the sale of IT training to other employers for their own staff. We exclude universities, colleges, companies selling mainly to private individuals, and providers delivering mainly government-funded training programmes. We also exclude those who provide 'second order' services such as course materials, contract instructors, brokerage, testing etc.

3. IT Training is defined as (a) training in any IT subject (whether intended for IT professionals or for end users), plus (b) any training for which the learner population is made up predominantly of IT professionals

4. Only UK revenues count for Top 50 purposes. Please remember to exclude revenues that were generated outside the UK.

5. In the absence of your input, we will use a publicly available figure (e.g. in published accounts or in an annual report) where possible or our best estimate.

Information required

For the purposes of the Top 50 listing, please tell us:

1. Your UK IT Training revenues (either actual or estimated) for FY2009 or calendar 2009 to the nearest £0.1 million. The report will indicate clearly which figures are 'actuals' and which are estimates.
2. The corresponding figure for the previous year and the percentage change from 2008 to 2009. (Even if you were listed in our previous Top 50, this will provide a useful cross-check of last year's numbers.)
3. The name of the person in your company who should be our primary contact for this financial research, if not yourself.
4. The name of the person who should be the contact point for your company profile and other editorial questions.

For our market analysis, we would like to have the following information (approximate numbers only required):

1. What percentage of your 2009 revenues did you derive from training sold by other training companies but trained by you? ("Pass through %" in form below - this is to help eliminate double counting when we estimate the total market size)
2. How is your revenue split between training IT professionals and training end-users?
3. How is your revenue split between ILT (classroom courses), learning technologies and training support services?

Please ensure the answers to questions 2 and 3 each add up to 100%!

We would be grateful if you could send this information as soon as possible, but no later than Friday 26 February 2010 by completing the form below or sending the same information by email to top50@pardofox.com.

Thank you