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RNS Number : 4678H  Kainos Group plc  13 November 2025

13 November 2025

Kainos Group plc

("Kainos" or the "Company")

 

Director / PDMR shareholdings

The Company announces that on 13 November 2025, share awards (the "Awards")
approved by the Board of Directors of the Company under the Company's HM
Revenue and Customs approved Share Incentive Plan scheme (the "SIP Awards"),
in the form of free ordinary shares, contingent on length of service of 0.5
pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") were provided to all eligible
U.K. based employees of the Company, including the executive directors of the
Company, or its subsidiaries.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging

managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.

 (A19 Market Abuse Regulation)

 

 1.                    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely
                       associated
 a.                    Name                                      Brendan Mooney
 2.                    Reason for the notification
 a.                    Position/status                           CEO
 b.                    Initial notification                      Initial

                       /Amendment
 3.                    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
                       platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
 a.                    Name                                      Kainos Group plc
 b.                    LEI                                       213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47
 4.                    Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of
                       instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each
                       place where transactions have been conducted
 a.                    Description of the                        Ordinary Shares of £0.005 each

                       Financial instrument/

                       type of instrument                        KNOS

                       Identification code
 b.                    Nature of the transaction                 SIP Share Awards 2025
 c.                    Price(s) and volume(s)

Exercise Price(s)  Volume(s)
                                                                 £9.401             220
 d.                    Aggregated information

                       ·      Aggregated volume                  N/A

                       ·      Price
 e.                    Date of the transaction                   13-11-25
 f.                    Place of the transaction                  Outside a trading venue

d.

Aggregated information

·      Aggregated volume

·      Price

 

N/A

e.

Date of the transaction

13-11-25

f.

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 1.                    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely
                       associated
 a.                    Name                                      Richard McCann
 2.                    Reason for the notification
 a.                    Position/status                           CFO/COO
 b.                    Initial notification                      Initial

                       /Amendment
 3.                    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
                       platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
 a.                    Name                                      Kainos Group plc
 b.                    LEI                                       213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47
 4.                    Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of
                       instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each
                       place where transactions have been conducted
 a.                    Description of the                        Ordinary Shares of £0.005 each

                       Financial instrument/

                       type of instrument                        KNOS

                       Identification code
 b.                    Nature of the transaction                 SIP Share Awards 2025
 c.                    Price(s) and volume(s)

Exercise Price(s)  Volume(s)
                                                                 £9.401             220
 d.                    Aggregated information

                       ·      Aggregated volume                  N/A

                       ·      Price
 e.                    Date of the transaction                   13-11-25
 f.                    Place of the transaction                  Outside a trading venue

d.

Aggregated information

·      Aggregated volume

·      Price

 

N/A

e.

Date of the transaction

13-11-25

f.

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 1.                    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely
                       associated
 a.                    Name                                      Malachy Smith
 2.                    Reason for the notification
 a.                    Position/status                           Divisional Director
 b.                    Initial notification                      Initial

                       /Amendment
 3.                    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
                       platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
 a.                    Name                                      Kainos Group plc
 b.                    LEI                                       213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47
 4.                    Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of
                       instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each
                       place where transactions have been conducted
 a.                    Description of the                        Ordinary Shares of £0.005 each

                       Financial instrument/

                       type of instrument                        KNOS

                       Identification code
 b.                    Nature of the transaction                 SIP Share Awards 2025
 c.                    Price(s) and volume(s)

Exercise Price(s)  Volume(s)
                                                                 £9.401             220

 

 d.                    Aggregated information

                       ·      Aggregated volume                  N/A

                       ·      Price
 e.                    Date of the transaction                   13-11-25
 f.                    Place of the transaction                  Outside a trading venue

 

 

d.

Aggregated information

·      Aggregated volume

·      Price

 

N/A

e.

Date of the transaction

13-11-25

f.

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 

 1.                    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely
                       associated
 a.                    Name                                      Daniel Kemp
 2.                    Reason for the notification
 a.                    Position/status                           Divisional Director
 b.                    Initial notification                      Initial

                       /Amendment
 3.                    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
                       platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
 a.                    Name                                      Kainos Group plc
 b.                    LEI                                       213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47
 4.                    Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of
                       instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each
                       place where transactions have been conducted
 a.                    Description of the                        Ordinary Shares of £0.005 each

                       Financial instrument/

                       type of instrument                        KNOS

                       Identification code
 b.                    Nature of the transaction                 SIP Share Awards 2025
 c.                    Price(s) and volume(s)

Exercise Price(s)  Volume(s)
                                                                 £9.401             220

 

 d.                    Aggregated information

                       ·      Aggregated volume                  N/A

                       ·      Price
 e.                    Date of the transaction                   13-11-25
 f.                    Place of the transaction                  Outside a trading venue

 

 

d.

Aggregated information

·      Aggregated volume

·      Price

 

N/A

e.

Date of the transaction

13-11-25

f.

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

Ends

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Kainos                                                                                                    via
FTI Consulting LLP
Brendan Mooney, Chief Executive Officer
Richard McCann, Chief Financial Officer

 

Investec Bank
plc
+44 20 7597 5970
Patrick Robb / Nick Prowting / Arnav Kapoor

 

FTI Consulting
LLP
+44 20 3727 1000
Dwight Burden / Kwaku Aning

 

About Kainos Group plc
Kainos Group plc is a UK-headquartered provider of sophisticated IT services
to major public sector, commercial and healthcare customers and a developer of
software applications. Our shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange
(LSE: KNOS).

Our expertise spans three divisions: Digital Services, Workday Services, and
Workday Products.

Digital Services

Our Digital Services customers face a range of business challenges, including
the need to improve their customer service, reduce costs and increase
productivity. We help them to solve these problems by developing and
supporting custom digital service platforms. Our solutions enable customers
and their users to work smarter, faster and better, while ensuring the
platforms are secure, accessible and cost effective.

Workday Services

We are a respected partner to Workday Inc., providing a comprehensive range of
services to support customers deploying Workday's Finance, HR and Planning
products. Our experience in complex deployments means we are trusted to
launch, test, expand and support Workday systems.

Workday Products

We have developed proprietary software products that complement Workday by
enhancing our customers' system security and compliance and improving their
document generation and storage. Over 600 global customers use one or more of
our products, with adoption growing rapidly.

Our people

Our people are central to our success. We employ more than 3,100 people in 18
countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Find out more

You can discover more about us at www.kainos.com
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