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  • ISS 2025 Chapter 30 450x450 - IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 30: Commercial Banking Subsector Benchmarks

    IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 30: Commercial Banking Subsector Benchmarks

    Chapter 30 provides benchmarks for commercial banks. This subsector includes credit unions and community, regional, international, and national banks. The 26 respondents in this sample have annual revenues ranging from a minimum of about $50 million to about $175 billion. 

    August, 2025

  • ISS 2025 Chapter 46 450x450 - IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 46: IT Services and Consulting Subsector Benchmarks

    IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 46: IT Services and Consulting Subsector Benchmarks

    Chapter 46 provides IT spending and staffing statistics for the IT services and consulting sector. This category includes systems integrators, IT solution providers, business process outsourcing firms, managed services companies, IT consultants, and other providers of IT services and solutions. There are 20 organizations in the sample, ranging in size from around $50 million to over $20 billion in annual revenue. 

    August, 2025

  • Web E Commerce Staffing Ratios - Web/E-Commerce Staffing Ratios 2023

    Web/E-Commerce Staffing Ratios 2023

    Social media, mobile devices, multimedia, and even the prospects of the metaverse, are increasing the ways customers and suppliers interact. The omnichannel experience will pressure organizations to build larger web and e-commerce footprints. With that increasing pressure, we expect web/e-commerce staffing to also increase. The Research Byte summarizes the five-year trend in web/e-commerce staffing ratios.

    February, 2023

  • New Home for Business Analysts - Business Analyst Staffing Ratios 2023

    Business Analyst Staffing Ratios 2023

    The business analyst staffing ratio appears to be declining, but the role is not falling in importance. Therefore, as business users become more IT-savvy, it is only natural that business analysts would increasingly be rising up within the business rather than in the IT organization. The Research Byte summarizes our full report on business analyst staffing ratios.

    February, 2023

  • RB Featured Image China Diversification Strategy - China Diversification Strategies and Options for Relocation

    China Diversification Strategies and Options for Relocation

    China’s economic and geopolitical ambitions have created political and business instability with its global trading partners. As a result, many western companies with manufacturing operations in China or significant sourcing from China are pursuing a diversification strategy. This report summarizes the factors that are driving western nations to diversify their operations out of China as well as options for new locations.

    January, 2023

  • Trend in Help Desk Staff 1 - Help Desk Staffing Ratios 2023

    Help Desk Staffing Ratios 2023

    The help desk plays an important role in the delivery of IT services to the business. However, in 2022, help desk staffing declined to a level not seen since prior to the pandemic. Businesses are adapting to new working models, which may be one factor impacting this staffing ratio. The Research Byte summarizes our full report on help desk staffing ratios.

    January, 2023

  • Database Administration Staffing Ratios - Database Administration Staffing Ratios 2022

    Database Administration Staffing Ratios 2022

    Database administration (DBA) staffing remained steady in 2022, even though organizations are capturing and analyzing greater amounts of data. One reason DBA staffing levels are not rising is technology, specifically AI/ML, which is assisting DBAs in collecting, sorting, managing, and controlling ever-larger volumes of data. The Research Byte summarizes this full report on database administration staffing ratios.

    January, 2023

  • content 3 - Database Administration Staffing Ratios 2025

    Database Administration Staffing Ratios 2025

    As businesses continue to expand their digital footprints, they are collecting more data and connecting more applications than ever before. This exponential growth in data volume and application integration presents both opportunities and challenges. To harness the full potential of this data, organizations must ensure that it is not only secure but also readily accessible.

    February, 2025

  • Landscape Product Image Procurement scaled - What's Keeping Chief Procurement Officers Awake at Night?

    What’s Keeping Chief Procurement Officers Awake at Night?

    The risk of supply chain disruptions is in addition to the objective of the chief procurement officer (CPO) to deliver value, improve cash flow, develop functional capabilities, manage the risk in an ever-evolving supply base, and reduce the carbon footprint of the supply chain.

    January, 2023

  • Horizontal cover 03 - IT Salary Report 2023

    IT Salary Report 2023

    This report provides total compensation for 80 IT job functions for more than 400 US metro areas and 20 industry sectors. The executive summary also provides our forecast for pay raises and hiring in 2023 and includes job descriptions for each job function. The salary tables are provided as a downloadable Microsoft Excel workbook, with total salaries reported at the 10th, 25th, 50th (median), 75th, and 90th percentiles.

    December, 2022

  • IaaS Adoption and Investment RB 450x450 - IaaS Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2022

    IaaS Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2022

    The need for agility continues to drive investment in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). And the global pandemic and subsequent supply chain disruptions have only increased this trend. Cloud infrastructure makes it easier for companies to respond to fluctuations in demand, changes in business requirements, and the need to optimize costs over time. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report on IaaS adoption trends and customer experience.

    December, 2022

  • IT Staffing RB Project Manager - IT Project Management Staffing Ratios 2022

    IT Project Management Staffing Ratios 2022

    The role of the IT project manager is critical in this dynamic, changing IT environment. The rise in the remote/hybrid work model puts project managers in the middle of recreating business and project management processes to reflect a more dispersed workforce. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report on IT project management staffing ratios.

    December, 2022

  • Practice Adopotion Stages Cloud Governanced - Cloud Governance Best Practices 2022

    Cloud Governance Best Practices 2022

    Cloud governance is a set of policies and practices governing an organization’s use of cloud computing to enable new capabilities and optimize cloud cost, scalability, security, compliance, and interoperability. Cloud governance should be top of mind for several organizations because it provides a complete overview of an organization’s cloud resources and how they should be managed. It is not surprising that many organizations see the vital role cloud governance plays in their daily operations, and practice rates are high compared with most best practices in our annual study.

    November, 2022

  • Trend in Applications - Application Developer Staffing Ratios 2022

    Application Developer Staffing Ratios 2022

    The process of developing and maintaining enterprise applications is changing. Agile methodologies and DevOps are contributing factors to the decline in application developer staffing ratios. Low-code/no-code, rapid application development approaches that aim to reduce coding and application development times further reduce the need for developers. Developers still make up the largest portion of most IT organizations, and they are quite expensive. Therefore, IT leaders should assess their developer needs in order to optimize their personnel budgets.

    November, 2022

  • Desktop - Desktop Support Outsourcing Trends and Customer Experience 2022

    Desktop Support Outsourcing Trends and Customer Experience 2022

    The question of whether to turn over the desktop support function to a service provider is a critical and surprisingly complicated one. Our research shows there is a strong cost advantage to outsourcing the desktop support function, but other factors, including giving up control, can lead to problems. Nevertheless, 51% of IT organizations are outsourcing at least some of their desktop support function, making this one of the most popular functions to outsource, according to our annual IT Outsourcing Statistics study.

    October, 2022