UK council spending · supplier
Softcat Ltd: council payments
4 published councils paid Softcat Ltd £1,464,138 across 92 payments dated 2 January 2025 to 18 September 2026, as the councils publish them in their spending files.
The largest payer was Leicester City Council (£889,102).
Data as of Oct 21, 2026 (Olympus publication) · Markdown version
- Payments as each council publishes them under the Local Government Transparency Code 2015, mapped onto one schema. Amounts, dates and names are not adjusted: councils differ in threshold (over £500, over £250 or all spend), in whether amounts include VAT, and in which date they publish (payment, posting or certification). Redacted payees, usually individuals, are returned as redacted and never named. See GET /v1/uk-council-spending/coverage for the councils, files and months loaded.
- Suppliers are grouped by a normalised form of the published name (upper case, punctuation removed, LIMITED as LTD, ...). Grouping is not identity: different organisations can share a name, and one organisation can appear under several. A supplier is linked to a company only through a Companies House number a council file publishes.
Totals by council
Each council's payments to this supplier name, from the spending files in that council's catalogue.
| Council | Payments | Total | First payment | Last payment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leicester City Council | 30 | £889,101.88 | 28 January 2025 | 18 September 2026 | data.gov.uk catalogue |
| City of York Council | 52 | £519,140.54 | 22 April 2025 | 27 July 2026 | York Open Data catalogue, 14 August 2026 |
| Leeds City Council | 1 | £31,153.49 | 6 February 2026 | 6 February 2026 | Data Mill North catalogue |
| Liverpool City Council | 9 | £24,742.31 | 2 January 2025 | 4 June 2025 | Data Mill North catalogue |
Totals by month
Payments from every council above, by the month of the date each council publishes.
| Month | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| January 2025 | 5 | £11,908.92 |
| February 2025 | 2 | £283,747.02 |
| March 2025 | 1 | £2,668.08 |
| April 2025 | 6 | £39,512.92 |
| May 2025 | 5 | £178,291.22 |
| June 2025 | 13 | £24,119.36 |
| July 2025 | 4 | £9,473.94 |
| August 2025 | 10 | £46,439.52 |
| September 2025 | 1 | £435.42 |
| October 2025 | 17 | £274,975.16 |
| November 2025 | 7 | £44,485.27 |
| December 2025 | 2 | £2,119.12 |
| January 2026 | 2 | £102,777.97 |
| February 2026 | 3 | £94,803.83 |
| March 2026 | 1 | £332.04 |
| April 2026 | 4 | £112,617.23 |
| May 2026 | 2 | £2,119.12 |
| June 2026 | 3 | £72,021.83 |
| July 2026 | 1 | £36,613.11 |
| August 2026 | 1 | £56,725.20 |
| September 2026 | 2 | £67,951.94 |
- Amounts as published: no VAT adjustment and no reconciliation to accounts. Negative amounts are credits.
Recent payments
The 10 latest payments, each with the council file it is read from.
| Payment date | Council | Amount | Expense type | Source file (file date) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | Leicester City Council | £66,164.86 | Repairs & Maintenance IT Software | csv |
| 8 September 2026 | Leicester City Council | £1,787.08 | Repairs & Maintenance IT Software | csv |
| 28 August 2026 | Leicester City Council | £56,725.20 | Repairs & Maintenance IT Software | csv |
| 27 July 2026 | City of York Council | £36,613.11 | R&M IT Software and Licences | over250payments2026.csv (14 August 2026) |
| 30 June 2026 | City of York Council | £2,998.97 | R&M IT Software and Licences | over250payments2026.csv (14 August 2026) |
| 26 June 2026 | Leicester City Council | £2,858.00 | Repairs & Maintenance IT Software | csv |
| 19 June 2026 | Leicester City Council | £66,164.86 | Repairs & Maintenance IT Software | csv |
| 29 May 2026 | Leicester City Council | £1,787.08 | Repairs & Maintenance IT Software | csv |
| 26 May 2026 | City of York Council | £332.04 | R&M IT Software and Licences | over250payments2026.csv (14 August 2026) |
| 27 April 2026 | City of York Council | £36,613.11 | R&M IT Software and Licences | over250payments2026.csv (14 August 2026) |
Top expense types
How the councils label these payments, largest first.
| Expense type | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Repairs & Maintenance IT Software | 27 | £816,189.92 |
| IT Software Purchase | 11 | £256,673.46 |
| R&M IT Software and Licences | 38 | £254,312.82 |
| IT Software | 4 | £74,953.63 |
| Supplies & Services? | 1 | £31,153.49 |
| Software (General) | 9 | £24,742.31 |
| Professional Fees | 2 | £6,112.59 |
Names and identifiers
The spellings councils publish, and the numbers their files carry or the shared identifier registry links. Payments are grouped by a normalised name, which is not identity.
| Name or identifier | Value | Where from |
|---|---|---|
| Name as published | Softcat Ltd | 82 payments |
| Name as published | SOFTCAT LTD | 10 payments |
- Supplier pages exist only for suppliers paid at least £100,000 in total or by at least 3 councils, and only when the published lines show an organisation (a Companies House or charity number, a legal form such as LTD or PLC, or a public body's name) and the name has no personal title. Sole traders, individuals and payees councils redact get no page.
Sources
- Leicester City Council spending files (data.gov.uk catalogue) — Leicester City Council. Payments dated 7 July 2024 to 30 September 2026. https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/api/action/package_show?id=expenditure-exceeding-500-2026
- City of York Council spending files (York Open Data catalogue) — City of York Council. Payments dated 2 April 2025 to 31 July 2026, source date 2026-08-14. https://data.yorkopendata.org/api/3/action/package_show?id=all-payments-to-suppliers
- Leeds City Council spending files (Data Mill North catalogue) — Leeds City Council. Payments dated 4 June 2025 to 30 June 2026. https://datamillnorth.org/api/action/package_show?id=2gpp0
- Liverpool City Council spending files (Data Mill North catalogue) — Liverpool City Council. Payments dated 21 November 2023 to 30 June 2025. https://datamillnorth.org/api/action/package_show?id=2w6d8
- Published by Olympus on Oct 21, 2026.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Leicester City Council).
- Leicester City Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Leicester open data portal dataset metadata; the harvested data.gov.uk record states none).
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0 (City of York Council).
- City of York Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence 2.0 (United Kingdom) (York Open Data record license_title).
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Leeds City Council).
- Leeds City Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence v3 (Data Mill North record license_title).
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0 (Liverpool City Council).
- Liverpool City Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence v2 (Data Mill North record license_title).
Get this data from the API
The same figures, with provenance on every value, from the API (free API key, reference).
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