Growth path for IT investment in Europe. According to Gartner estimates, next year we will see an increase of 8.7% compared to the figures for 2024. An impulse driven especially by software, services and again, by devices.
The consulting firm’s first forecasts already speak of a 2025 full of technology. So much so that it is expected to be the year of greatest growth in IT investment in the post-pandemic era. A milestone thanks to the rise of markets such as AI and maturation such as services.
The European technology business could reach 1.28 trillion (millions of millions) dollars in 2025after 2024 that would end with 1.18 trillion (millions of millions) euros in IT investment in the old continent.
Areas such as infrastructure or security will be key to reaching these amounts. The firm estimates that public cloud investment in Europe will reach $123 billion in 2024. Security could reach a volume of $47 billion in 2024.
Breaking down the data by category, the IT services They will take the largest share of European IT investment. Specifically, it is expected to be 489,767 million dollars with a growth of 9.2% compared to 2024. In the case of communications services they will exceed 302,000 million dollars with an increase of 3.6%.
The biggest increase for 2025 will be for software. This section will grow in Europe by 13.2% to more than 288.16 billion dollars. During this year, it will also lead growth with an estimate of 11.6 points above.
Behind other businesses such as devices oh go data center systems which will rise to 146.7 billion and 54.41 billion dollars, respectively. Both supported by the AI era, 2025 offers many new opportunities where partners will be able to deploy their potential among European organizations. So much so that a strong increase of 25% is predicted for AI-optimized servers in 2024.