The UK arm of Catapult, a Melbourne-listed sports-analytics company whose wearable trackers and video tools are used by elite teams, with offices in Leeds and London.
Catapult is a sports-performance analytics company. Its wearable trackers, worn by athletes during training and matches, record movement, workload and fitness. Its software helps coaches and sports scientists improve performance, reduce injury risk and track return to play. Products include the Vector family of wearables, a local positioning system called ClearSky, and the G5 goalkeeper monitor. It has also built up video and athlete-management tools through acquisitions. The company says it works with more than 3,200 elite teams in 137 countries, a company figure.
Catapult was founded by engineers Shaun Holthouse and Igor van de Griendt, who began work in 1999 on a project with the Australian Institute of Sport. They were exploring whether small sensors could replace lab-based testing, because athletes do not push themselves in a lab the way they do in competition. The business launched in 2006 and listed on the Australian stock exchange in 2014. Its stated purpose, on a jobs-site profile, is that it "exists to unleash the potential of every athlete and team on earth". The company's parent is headquartered in Melbourne.
In the UK, Catapult Sports Limited is a registered company with its registered office in Leeds (34 Boar Lane) and was incorporated in 2013. A jobs-site profile lists a London office in Southwark, near the South Bank, and describes the London roles as in-office. The same profile shows about 579 staff worldwide, while the company description says over 400, so the numbers are not firm. Acquisitions announced in 2025, according to headlines, included XOS Digital and Playertek, and the German analytics firm Impect, which broadens what the UK teams work on.
Catapult's own profile talks about unleashing potential, which points to a culture centred on athletes and teams. Beyond that, the sources we could read do not describe daily working life, values or benefits, so we cannot go further. The London roles listed on the jobs site were all for in-office work, suggesting teams work together at the office, though the listing is a snapshot and may have changed.
The roles listed for London on the profile give a clear picture of what the UK offices do. They include software engineers working on elite motorsport products, DevOps and computer-vision engineers, a graduate software engineer, and senior people-and-culture leadership. Other functions at a company like this include sports scientists, customer-success and sales teams, and hardware and support technicians. Computing, engineering, data science and sport science are typical starting points. The company's own website lists current vacancies.
Website: www.catapult.com
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