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Lms contracts

UK public sector · 220 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
220
Last 12 months
Median contract
£76k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£25.3m
209 of 216 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
172
Suppliers
101

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most lms contracts took 27% of them (60 of 220).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 19% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £76k, is 31% below the median across it & software contracts (£110k).

Who buys lms

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1NHS England6 contracts
  2. 2Historic England4 contracts
  3. 3National Audit Office3 contracts
  4. 4Department for Education3 contracts
  5. 5Construction Industry Training Board3 contracts
  6. 6Centre for Process Innovation3 contracts
  7. 7UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)3 contracts
  8. 8H M REVENUE & CUSTOMS2 contracts
  9. 9Dundee City Council2 contracts
  10. 10United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust2 contracts

Top lms contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Learning Pool23 contracts
  2. 2Kallidus Limited12 contracts
  3. 3LinkedIn11 contracts
  4. 4Softcat8 contracts
  5. 5OneFile Ltd6 contracts
  6. 6Totara Learning6 contracts
  7. 7Think Learning5 contracts
  8. 8Academia5 contracts
  9. 9Me Learning5 contracts
  10. 10Titus Learning5 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

52Q4 2025*63Q1 202653Q2 202651Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 200 · Scotland 11 · Wales 9

London28North East19South West19East of England18South East18Yorkshire and The Humber16North West15West Midlands14East Midlands10Scotland10Wales7UK-wide or not stated46

What is included

Platforms that deliver, book and record training for staff, professionals, volunteers or public learners (LMS, training management systems and open online course hosting), with off-the-shelf e-learning content and in-app guidance for staff systems.

  • Learning and training management systems for staff
  • Off-the-shelf e-learning course libraries and compliance training
  • Online course platforms for professionals, volunteers or the public, including MOOC hosting
  • In-app guidance and digital adoption tools for staff systems
  • LMS hosting and support for workforce training (for example Moodle or Totara)

What is not included

  • Course platforms for a school's, college's or university's enrolled students -> it.lob.virtual-learning-environment
  • Technology skills content libraries -> it.ent.online-technical-skills-training
  • Instructor-led Microsoft 365 user training -> it.ent.productivity-suite-services
  • DSE training and assessment -> it.ent.health-safety-management
  • Police training and competency records -> it.lob.police-training-and-specialist-assets
  • Incident command simulation -> it.lob.incident-command-training
  • E-learning content production bought on its own -> not IT (training and content services)

Often bought by the same buyers