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ICT Partners - Tech Skills: The 2025 winners

Tech Skills of IT companies

As every year, the thousands of updates of IT company profiles allow us to detect trends in terms of technical skills. Below are the top skills of IT & Telecom companies from different angles (Volume of partners / Growth in volume / Growth in weight )
Regions taken in consideration are EMEA - AMERICA (North & LATAM) - Australia - New Zealand


Top 12 tech skills in volume of partners - Rank - Volume (latest) in volume of partners

TOP 12 declared skills by IT companies - in volume of companies by skill (volume are dynamic, the rank order was set up in January),

 

Top growths for skills in volume of additional partners for the corresponding skill.

Rank Skills: Top growth in volume vs. previous year
1st January 2026
Var vs Y-1 Net New Partners in our database
1 AI - Artificial Intelligence, Neuronal Syst., Deep Learning, Machine Learning +17.7 % + 3654
2 Business Intelligence - EPM - Data analytics +8.9 % + 2633
3 Cloud computing - PaaS - IaaS +3.6 % + 2536
4
Network Security, Cyber Security - SIEM
+4.3 % + 2118
5
IoT - Internet of things - M2M
+8.3 % + 880
6
EDM - Electronic Document Management - DSM - EIM - Workflow
+9.1 % + 1890
7
Internet - Intranet
+4.5 % + 1818
8
EAI - Enterprise Application Integration
+89.2 % + 1725
9
BPM - Business Process Management - EPM - DevOps
+ 17.6 % + 1557
10
Governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) - GPRD - Data Privacy
+13.6 % + 1546
11
Help Desk
+ 7.0 % + 1441
12
Mobile Computing
+ 7.7 + 1421

Top growths for variation in volume of additional partners for the corresponding skill.

Rank

Skill

Net New Partners

1

EAI - Enterprise Application Integration
+89.33%

2

Application Server
+52.16%

3

Blockchain
+43.40%

4

SOA - Service Oriented Architecture - Microservices
+24.60%

5

Gaming
+23.71%

6

Social Network Services / Collaboration
 
+22.41%

7

High Performance Computing (HPC) - High availability (HA) (new)
+21.88 %

8

Green IT
+20.68 %

9

AI - Artificial Intelligence, Neuronal Syst., Deep Learning, Machine Learning
+17.74%

10

BPM - Business Process Management - EPM - DevOps
+17.61%

11

Governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) - GPRD - Data Privacy
+13.82%

12

Big Data - BAO - Data Warehouse - Data management
+13.45%

 


This graph shows the evolution in rank

The graph below shows the evolution of skills  position between January 2018 and January 2026 by rank.
The rank #1 is the most declared skill within the industry (ICT partners)
Virtualization was not present before 2022



 


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