Synopsis
This report presents the findings from a survey of 136 UK enterprises regarding their Information & Communication Technology (ICT) budgets and staff allocation. The survey investigates how UK enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT spend, namely hardware, software, IT services, communications and consulting.
Scope
Understand how ICT budgets are set to change in 2013 in terms of their overall size.
Appreciate how IT budgets are allocated across the core elements of IT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications, and consulting.
Learn how IT Pounds are being spent in areas such as the data centre, applications, IT management and the network.
Establish how IT staff are typically allocated within UK organizations.
Gain insight into with whom UK enterprises plan to spend their ICT Pounds.
Summary
Why was the report written?
In order to provide a depth of insight into ICT vendors’ and service providers’ potential customers
What is the current market landscape and what is changing?
The absolute value of UK enterprise ICT market for business and purchases of technology goods and services will remain at the same level or witness marginal growth in 2012-13.
What are the key drivers behind recent market changes?
UK’s financial services sector is experiencing a gradual recovery in demand for ICT products and services, while the UK government’s austerity drive will also generate new ICT opportunities in the medium term
What makes this report unique and essential to read?
Kable Market Research Market Research has invested significant resources in order to interview CIOs and IT managers about their IT Budgets. Very few IT analyst houses will have interviewed 130+ ICT decision makers in the UK market in H2 2012.
Reasons To Buy
Lower spending by the UK Public sector which currently is the largest procurer of ICT products and services, could have a negative impact on the technology and communications market.
Tight business conditions will compel SMEs to postpone major ICT investments beyond 2013.
The proportion of IT budget allocated for internal development and maintenance is set to stay fixed when compared with 2012 due to uncertain economic conditions.
The reluctance of organizations to invest in their business expansion in the current economic scenario prompts them to spend less on these areas in 2013.
UK enterprises’ intentions to rationalize their infrastructure costs, is a cause of concern for vendors operating in this space.
Table of Contents
1 Trends in ICT budgets
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Survey demographics
1.3 IT budget changes
1.4 IT budget allocation by core technology area
1.5 IT budget allocation by function
1.6 IT spending by entity
1.7 IT staff distribution
2 Detailed IT budget allocations
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Hardware budget breakdown
2.3 Software budget breakdowns
2.4 Third party IT Services expenditure
2.5 Telecommunications budget
3 Summary
3.1 UK enterprises are raising IT spending, albeit at a tentative and modest pace
4 Appendix
4.1 Definitions
4.2 Further reading
4.3 Contact the authors
List Of Tables
Table 1: UK enterprise ICT survey industry breakdown
Table 2: UK enterprise ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of employees)
Table 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among UK enterprises
Table 4: UK enterprises' (external) ICT budget allocation in 2012
Table 5: UK enterprises' (external) ICT budget allocation in 2013
Table 6: UK enterprises' ICT budget allocation by function, 2012 and 2013
Table 7: UK enterprises' IT budget allocation by entity in 2012
Table 8: UK enterprises' IT budget allocation by entity in 2013
Table 9: Average allocation of full-time IT staff members in UK enterprises
Table 10: UK enterprises' average hardware budget allocation
Table 11: Average allocation of software budgets in the UK enterprise market
Table 12: UK enterprises' average software budget allocation by technology
Table 13: UK enterprises' average IT services budget allocation
Table 14: UK enterprises' average IT consulting services budget allocation
Table 15: UK enterprises' average telecommunications budget allocation
List Of Figures
Figure 1: UK enterprise ICT survey industry breakdown
Figure 2: UK enterprise ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of employees)
Figure 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among UK enterprises
Figure 4: UK enterprises' (external) ICT budget allocation in 2012
Figure 5: UK enterprises' (external) ICT budget allocation in 2013
Figure 6: UK enterprises' ICT budget allocation by function, 2012 and 2013
Figure 7: UK enterprises' IT budget allocation by entity in 2012
Figure 8: UK enterprises' IT budget allocation by entity in 2013
Figure 9: Average allocation of full-time IT staff members in UK enterprises
Figure 10: UK enterprises' average hardware budget allocation
Figure 11: Average allocation of software budgets in the UK enterprise market
Figure 12: UK enterprises' average software budget allocation by technology
Figure 13: UK enterprises' average IT services budget allocation
Figure 14: UK enterprises' average IT consulting services budget allocation
Figure 15: UK enterprises' average telecommunications budget allocation
