Mid-Market IT Priorities Report 2022/23

Our annual benchmarking Mid-Market Report investigates how organisations are continuing to adapt their IT priorities and refocus investment.

What is the mid-market prioritizing in 2023?

Whilst the effects of Brexit and COVID have continued to diminish for most businesses over the last 12 months, a new set of challenges has arisen for organisations to tackle. Against a backdrop of inflation, rising fuel and energy costs alongside the rapid rise of shadow IT, Mid-Market organisations are facing an increasingly complex set of circumstances, each with significant influence on their business priorities and IT budgets as 2023 begins.

Node4’s Mid-Market IT Priorities Report 2022/23 reveals the fascinating views and sentiments of 459 IT decision-makers from across the insurance, transport & logistics, healthcare and online retail sectors.

84%

Agree that their influence over IT purchases has diminished

39%

Say they need a slight budget increase to cope with requirements

13%

Say that they expect to receive this budget increase

43%

Are now on a journey to Hybrid Cloud adoption

16%

Are retaining entirely on-premises infrastructure, down 5% from 2021/22

What will you take away?

Understand IT budget trends going into 2023, compared with the previous 12 months.

Discover the biggest threats to IT budgets and wider business operations across the mid-market.

A full view of where organisations are on their Cloud Transformation journey.

Realise the significant impact of shadow IT and how deeply it affects security operations.

Discover the factors driving current IT investment for UK-based mid-market organisations.

The Mid-Market IT Priorities Report 2022/23 is an independent piece of research carried out exclusively for Node4 by Censuswide. It investigates how mid-market organisations, particularly in the healthcare, transport & logistics, insurance and online retail sectors, continue to adapt their IT priorities and refocus investment.

The findings are based on the views of 459 IT decision-makers from various vertical markets with 1,000 – 10,000 employees and a broad spectrum of annual turnover.

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