Gartner predicts global IT spending to grow by 6.2% this year

Telecommunications services will remain the largest expense item. Having decreased by 1.7% last year, they will grow by 4.5% this year to reach $ 1.410 trillion. IT services, in second place, will show an increase of 6.0% to $ 1.072 trillion.

Sales of devices hit hardest by the pandemic (last year, this spending on this item fell by 8.2%), will grow by 8.0% to reach $ 705.4 billion. Enterprise software sales will show the highest growth – 8.8%. In absolute terms, $ 505.7 billion will be spent on this item. Finally, sales of data center systems will grow 6.2% to $ 228.4 billion.