OPENREACH LIMITED

Active
Company number 10690039Private limited companyIncorporated 2017

No accounts in digital format (iXBRL) since 2019. Paper or PDF accounts are available at Companies House.

Sector comparison

SIC 61100

Where the company stands among the 3,150 active companies whose first SIC code is 61100 (Wired telecommunications activities).

Company age9.6 years
Older than 56% · median 8.4 years
Largest in this sector by net assets
  1. OPEN FIBRE NETWORKS LIMITED£190.5m
  2. SALTCO II LIMITED£120.4m
  3. SALTCO LIMITED£120m
  4. F & W NETWORKS LTD£93.4m
  5. EXPONENTIAL-E LIMITED£87.5m
  6. GLIDE HOLDINGS LIMITED£79.8m
  7. MS3 NETWORKS LIMITED£47.6m
  8. SOUTHERN COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED£45.6m
  9. TELSTRA UK LIMITED£43m
  10. SCG CLOUD LIMITED£40.4m

Positions are approximate. Figures come from each company's latest accounts; money and employee figures are compared only with companies that filed accounts in pounds for a period ending in the last two and a half years and are not dormant. The line on each bar marks the median.

Summary: OPENREACH LIMITED

What kind of company is it?

OPENREACH LIMITED is a private limited company registered with Companies House under company number 10690039. It was incorporated on 24 Mar 2017. Its status is active. The registered office is in London (EC3V). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is wired telecommunications activities (61100).

How does it compare with similar companies?

Compared with 3,150 active companies whose first SIC code is 61100: It is older than 56% of them (median age 8.4 years).

Does it supply the public sector?

The company is named as a supplier in 22 public contract award notices from 17 public sector buyers since 2018. Contracts awarded to it alone have a combined published value of £47m. Its most frequent buyer is NYNET PUBLIC SECTOR LIMITED (5 contracts).

What do public registers and reports show?

Its gender pay gap report for 2025/26 shows median hourly pay for women 0.9% higher than for men. It has modern slavery statements on the government registry for 5 years.

Who runs and controls the company?

One person with significant control is registered.

When are its next filings due?

The next accounts are due by 31 Dec 2026. The next confirmation statement is due by 10 Apr 2027.

Public contracts

22 contracts

OPENREACH LIMITED is named as a supplier in 22 public contract award notices from 17 public sector buyers since 2018. Their combined published value is £47m.

Contracts per year
Main buyers17
NYNET PUBLIC SECTOR LIMITED
5 contracts · £3.3m
Leicestershire County Council
2 contracts · £450k
Leeds City Council
1 contract · £20.3m
Lancashire County Council
1 contract · £8.2m
CTM Portal for the NDA Shared Services Alliance
1 contract · £8m
Contracts
  1. A38 Lee Mill to Ivybridge FHS - C4sNational Highways Limited · £63,660 · runs until Dec 2026
  2. Openreach GEA Services ContractsNYNET PUBLIC SECTOR LIMITED · £480,149 · runs until May 2029
  3. Openreach DFX Services ContractsNYNET PUBLIC SECTOR LIMITED · £430,228 · runs until May 2029
  4. Openreach Access Location Services ContractsNYNET PUBLIC SECTOR LIMITED · £530,384 · runs until May 2029
  5. Openreach Ethernet Services ContractsNYNET PUBLIC SECTOR LIMITED · £1,437,012 · runs until May 2029
Show 17 more
  1. BT Openreach Fibre diversion - Somersall LaneDerbyshire County Council · £122,495 · runs until Dec 2026
  2. Diversions of and changes to Openreach infrastructure necessitated by the construction of Phase 2 of the West Bradford Cycle Superhighway schemeCity of Bradford Metropolitan District Council · £256,987 · runs until Apr 2028
  3. Openreach GEA Services ContractsNYNET PUBLIC SECTOR LIMITED · £373,831 · runs until Apr 2029
  4. WHTHT - Telephony Infrastructure Works‡West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · £128,491 · runs until Feb 2027
  5. Provision of Circuits-Openreach Network in Advance-NationalNETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED · £4,400,000 · 2 lots · runs until Jul 2028
  6. Supply of Data Lines at Rackheath Health HubNHS PROPERTY SERVICES LIMITED · £79,340
  7. Openreach‡Met Office · £19,928
  8. 27125 - Diversionary works Ph2 - WTTG‡Plymouth City Council · £1,609,832
  9. WHTHT - BT Post & Equipment relocation‡West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust · £34,233
  10. LPS ICT - Openreach service contracts‡Lancashire County Council · £8,229,967 · 3 lots · runs until Mar 2027
  11. Award of a contract to BT Openreach for diversionary works of their apparatus for the Thorpe Wood cycleway scheme‡Peterborough City Council · £54,663
  12. North & East Melton Mowbray Distributor Road (BT)‡Leicestershire County Council · £320,000
  13. PICTS Site Cabling Services‡CTM Portal for the NDA Shared Services Alliance · £7,987,015
  14. STDC-PROC-0575 - BT Openreach Equipment RelocationTEES VALLEY COMBINED AUTHORITY · £40,505
  15. Full Fibre Programme‡Leeds City Council · £20,300,000 · runs until Feb 2030
  16. Requirement for fixed netwrok connection between the University campus and Richard Taunton College under the JISC FrameworkUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON · £14,973
  17. Network Switching Hardware‡Leicestershire County Council · £130,000

From contract award notices on Contracts Finder (since 2016) and Find a Tender (since 2021), published by the Cabinet Office under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Values are as published by the buyer and usually cover the whole contract term; the total leaves out awards shared between several suppliers, where the published figure is a ceiling for all of them, placeholder values and single figures of £1 billion or more. Notices marked ‡ do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name. Contracts below the publication thresholds and those of devolved buyers that publish elsewhere are not included.

Statutory reporting

Payment practices1 Apr 2026 – 30 Sep 2026

No payments to suppliers were reported for this period.

View the latest report on GOV.UK

Gender pay gap2025/26
Median hourly pay
women 0.9% higher
Mean hourly pay
women 4.3% higher
Employer size
20,000 or more employees
Lower pay quarter10% womenLower middle9% womenUpper middle11% womenUpper pay quarter9% women
Earlier years (6)
Year
Median hourly pay
Mean hourly pay
2024/25
women 0.9% higher
women 5.6% higher
2023/24
women 2.1% higher
women 5.1% higher
2022/23
women 3% higher
women 5.1% higher
2021/22
women 14.2% higher
women 10.6% higher
2020/21
women 20.2% higher
women 14.2% higher
2019/20
women 21.3% higher
women 16.5% higher

A positive gap means women's average hourly pay is lower than men's across the whole employer; it is not a comparison of pay for the same work. View on the Gender pay gap service

Modern slavery statements5
2024
Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED)
2023
Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED)
2022
Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED)
Earlier years (2)
2021
Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED)
2020
Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED)

Figures the company reported itself to the government's Check payment practices service, Gender pay gap service and Modern slavery statement registry (Open Government Licence v3.0). Only large companies and employers with 250 or more staff have to report, so most companies have nothing here.

History

3 events
  1. Financial year endedAccounts filed at Companies House
  2. British Telecommunications Limited registered as a person with significant control
  3. Company incorporatedPrivate limited company

Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database. Former persons with significant control are not listed.