About Utilize Plc
What is Utilize Plc?
Utilize Plc is an Essex-based managed-IT services provider: IT support, cyber security, cloud infrastructure and Sage business-software consultancy for small and mid-size businesses across the South East. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Basildon with a London presence, Utilize has built its reputation on being the outsourced IT department that clients actually like dealing with — and on treating its own people well enough to earn a Best Companies 1-star accreditation in 2025, ranking #74 among the UK's Best Small Companies, #34 in the East of England and #17 in Technology.
Where will I work?
Basildon HQ (with a London office), on a hybrid pattern. The company's careers page leads with "Hybrid working" and backs it with a "Work from home fund" to kit out your home office properly.
What is the Utilize team like?
Around eighty people across service desk, infrastructure engineering, cyber, cloud, Sage consultancy and account management. It is a tight-knit shop — the careers page pitch is "Join the Utilize Family" — and the employee-review numbers back the culture story: Indeed reviews average 4.8 overall with work-life balance at 4.5, and Best Companies' own 2025 survey found 77% of staff agreeing they have a good work-life balance.
Work-Life Balance
Hybrid working as standard, a funded home-office setup, access to mental-health first aiders and a counsellor, and a verified workplace award. For a managed-services provider — a sector notorious for grind — Utilize's review profile stands out: no overwork pattern appears in employee reviews, and work-life balance is among its highest-rated categories.
Perks and Benefits
- Hybrid working (verbatim on its careers page) + work-from-home fund
- Access to mental health first aiders and a counsellor (verbatim on its careers page)
- Best Companies 1-star accreditation 2025 — #17 Technology, #74 Best Small Companies UK
- Indeed 4.8 overall / 4.5 work-life balance from employee reviews
- Long-established (1989) family-feel MSP — "Join the Utilize Family"