Software & SaaS

Cost statistics

• Cybersecurity Spending Statistics

  IDC expects global security spending to reach $308 billion in 2026, and Gartner puts end-user spending on information security at $240 billion for the same year. Budgets are growing more slowly than that: IANS found security budgets rose just 4% in 2025 and fell to 10.9% of IT spending, while IBM measured the average breach at $4.44 million worldwide and $10.22 million in the US.

• Subscription Economy Statistics

  US subscription spending rose 7.7% year over year in July 2026, faster than overall card spending, according to Bank of America payments data. Apple says its App Store ecosystem handled $149 billion in digital goods and services billings in 2025, and the UK government estimates that 9.7 million of 155 million active UK subscriptions are unwanted, costing consumers £1.6 billion a year.

• IT Spending Statistics

  Gartner forecasts worldwide IT spending of $6,391 billion in 2026 and $7.35 trillion in 2027, up 15%, with data center systems the fastest growing segment; Forrester puts 2027 technology spending at $6.1 trillion on its own definition. Gartner expects AI spending of $2.7 trillion in 2026, and TrendForce expects the nine largest cloud providers to spend $957 billion on capex this year. Memory shortages are pushing hardware prices up, and IDC forecasts an 11.3% fall in PC shipments in 2026.

• SaaS Spending Statistics

  Organizations spend an average of $55.7 million a year on SaaS across 305 applications, up 8% in 2026, according to Zylo. List prices are rising: Microsoft lifted Microsoft 365 E3 from $36 to $39 per user per month in July 2026, and Tropic sees AI-driven renewal price increases of 20 to 37%. IDC expects public cloud spending to pass $1 trillion in 2026, with SaaS more than half of it.