What are the general expectations of companies in Spain? How will spending on technology and personnel be managed in the IT field? The LiceoTIC “IT budget estimation” report offers a vision of the outlook for next year.
The study reveals moderate growth in the main costs of the IT department, including spending, investment and number of employees, aligned with the positive forecasts of increased billing for 2025. However, a slowdown is observed compared to 2024, mainly due to the large investments made in cybersecurity, cloud solutions and ERP migration and adaptation projects in previous years.
The budgets indicate that the areas of greatest activity will be data analysis, ERP migration and generative artificial intelligence projects, especially those that maximize investment in ERP migrations and implementations. Generalist AI will be integrated into productivity, training, information quality, data analysis and decision-making projects.
Expected growth in billing
Spanish companies have a positive outlook, expecting an increase of more than 4% in turnover by 2025, according to the LiceoTIC report. However, this figure is lower than the previous year’s forecast, which was higher than 7%. Regarding spending and investment in IT, a growth of more than 2% in investment and more than 4% in spending is expected, both below last year’s figures.
According to the report “IT budget estimation” carried out by LiceoTIC, Spanish companies will increase investment in IT next year. Similarly, spending in this area is expected to exceed 4% next year
Sectors with the greatest growth
The logistics and transportation sector leads growth expectations, with a forecast increase of 27.8% in turnover, slightly higher than the 27.3% of the previous year. The energy sector continues in second place with a growth of 16.8%, followed by the pharmaceutical and health sector with 15.3%. The services sector has the lowest forecast, at 5.9%.
Investment in IT by sector
The logistics sector is the one that will invest the most in IT, with an increase of 17.2%, followed by the energy sector with 14.6% and the distribution sector with 12.6%.
Staff increase
Companies plan to increase their workforce by more than 3%. The logistics and transportation sector expects the largest increase, with 10.9%, followed by the food sector with 4.7%. In the IT field, a 7.8% growth in the number of employees is expected, higher than last year’s 4.8%. The consumer sector leads the hiring of IT professionals, with an increase of 8%.
