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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2023/2024: Chapter 8: Retail Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 8 provides benchmarks for retailers. This sector includes retailers of clothing, jewelry, hardware, furniture, electronics, sports equipment, groceries, pharmaceuticals, and general merchandise. They include restaurant chains, department stores, luxury retail stores, electronics stores, furniture stores, pharmacies, sporting goods stores, and specialty retailers. We also include hospitality and consumer services in this sector. The 43 respondents in the sample range in size from about €90 million to over €30 billion in annual revenue.
September, 2023
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 1: Executive Summary
Chapter 1 provides an overview of the key findings from the full study and describes the contents of the subsequent chapters. It also includes information on the study participants and the survey methodology.
October, 2024
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 14: Construction and Trade Services Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 14 provides benchmarks for construction and trade services companies. The 23 respondents in the sample range in size from about €60 million to around €35 billion in annual revenue. This category includes engineering and construction companies, commercial, residential, and industrial construction contractors, specialty contractors, firms that provide oil field services, mining services, environmental services, and other construction and trade services firms.
October, 2024
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European CIOs Making Investments with Strong Budget Increases
Despite some economic turbulence, persistent nearby conflicts, and tech layoffs, end-user companies are showing relatively strong IT spending increases. CIOs are investing in a series of new technologies designed to transform the enterprise including AI, data analytics, and even the metaverse. Hiring is also keeping pace, and, for the most part, CIOs have the budget they need to make meet their mission of continued strategic transformation. This Research Byte is a brief description of some of the findings in our European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025 study.
October, 2024
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 8: Retail
Chapter 8 provides benchmarks for retailers. This sector includes retailers of clothing, jewelry, hardware, furniture, sports equipment, groceries, pharmaceuticals, and general merchandise. It includes department stores, fashion stores, furniture stores, pharmacies, convenience stores, sporting goods stores, and specialty retailers. We also include hospitality and consumer services in this sector. The 33 respondents in the sample range in size from about €55 million to over €80 billion in annual revenue.
September, 2025
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 1: Executive Summary
This chapter provides an overview of the key findings from the full study and describes the contents of the subsequent chapters. It also includes information on the study participants and the survey methodology.
September, 2025
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2023/2024: Chapter 9: Wholesale Distribution Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 9 provides benchmarks for wholesale distributors. The category includes wholesale distributors of building products, home improvement products, auto parts, industrial components, fuel supply, electronics, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, and other products. The 18 respondents in the sample range in size from a minimum of about €60 million to €30 billion in revenue.
September, 2023
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 2: Composite Benchmarks
This chapter provides composite metrics for all survey respondents across all sectors and organization sizes. The sample includes 154 organizations and is stratified by size and sector as described in the survey methodology section. Respondents must have at least €50 million in annual revenue or IT spending greater than €1 million and maintain at least some operations in Europe. There is no upper limit on the size of survey respondents.
October, 2024
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 15: IT Services and Solutions Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 15 provides IT spending and staffing statistics for the IT services and solutions sector. This category includes software companies, SaaS providers, systems integrators, IT solution providers, business process outsourcing firms, and other providers of IT services and solutions. There are 28 organizations in the sample, ranging in size from around €50 million to over €25 billion in annual revenue.
October, 2024
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 26: Commercial Banking
Chapter 26 provides benchmarks for commercial banks. This subsector includes credit unions and community, regional, international, and national banks. The 17 respondents in this sample have annual revenues ranging from a minimum of about €80 million to over €40 billion.
September, 2025
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 9: Wholesale Distribution
Chapter 9 provides benchmarks for wholesale distributors. The category includes wholesale distributors of building products, home improvement products, auto parts, industrial components, fuel supply, electronics, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, and other products. The 26 respondents in the sample range in size from a minimum of about €70 million to €80 billion in revenue.
September, 2025
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 2: Composite Benchmarks
This chapter provides composite metrics for all survey respondents across all sectors and organization sizes. The sample includes 157 organizations and is stratified by size and sector as described in the survey methodology section. Respondents must have at least €50 million in annual revenue or IT spending greater than €1 million and maintain at least some operations in Europe. There is no upper limit on the size of survey respondents.
September, 2025
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2023/2024: Chapter 10: Energy and Utilities Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 10 provides benchmarks for public utilities, oil and gas producers, service companies, and midstream distributors across all organization sizes. The 18 respondents in this sector include public utilities (water, gas, and electric), regional utilities, integrated energy companies, natural gas companies, pipeline operators, and other energy and utilities companies. The companies in our sample range in size from a minimum of about €150 million to more than €100 billion in annual revenue.
September, 2023
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 3A: Benchmarks by Organization Size
In these chapters, we provide a complete set of benchmarks for organizations within the specified size classification. Small organizations benchmarks are in Chapter 3A, midsize organizations in Chapter 3B, large organizations in Chapter 3C, and very large organizations in Chapter 3D. These chapters use a three-year sample. There are 98 respondents in the small organization sample, 102 in the midsize sample, 65 in the large sample, and 40 in the very large sample.
October, 2024
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 16: Media and Information Services Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 16 provides benchmarks for the media and information services sector. This sector includes publishing, broadcasting, entertainment, and digital media organizations, as well as other media and information services companies. The 15 respondents in the sample have annual revenues ranging from about €50 million to around €13 billion.
October, 2024
