SaaS statistics 2026

revenue of US software publishers in the second quarter of 2026, up 14.7% from a year earlier (seasonally adjusted)

Sample: Quarterly Services Survey of US employer firms; 2017 NAICS 5112 software publishers. Relative standard error about 5% for the level.

year-over-year growth in revenue of US data processing, hosting and related services (cloud infrastructure) in 2Q 2026, to $124.1 billion

Sample: Quarterly Services Survey of US employer firms; 2017 NAICS 518.

of EU enterprises (10+ staff) paid for cloud computing services such as SaaS in 2025, up 7.42 points from 2023

Sample: 157,000 of 1.53 million EU enterprises with 10+ employees or self-employed persons surveyed in 2025.

of small EU enterprises (10 to 49 staff) paid for cloud services in 2025, up 7.48 points from 2023

Sample: 157,000 of 1.53 million EU enterprises with 10+ employees or self-employed persons surveyed in 2025.

of medium-sized EU enterprises (50 to 249 staff) paid for cloud services in 2025, up from 59.09% in 2023

Sample: 157,000 of 1.53 million EU enterprises with 10+ employees or self-employed persons surveyed in 2025.

of large EU enterprises (250+ staff) paid for cloud services in 2025, up 6.9 points from 2023

Sample: 157,000 of 1.53 million EU enterprises with 10+ employees or self-employed persons surveyed in 2025.

of EU enterprises that buy cloud services use cloud CRM software; 30.12% use cloud ERP and 58.16% cloud accounting

Sample: 157,000 of 1.53 million EU enterprises with 10+ employees or self-employed persons surveyed in 2025.

of EU enterprises that buy cloud services use it for e-mail, the most common use

Sample: 157,000 of 1.53 million EU enterprises with 10+ employees or self-employed persons surveyed in 2025.

median SaaS spend per employee in Zylo's 2026 SaaS Management Index, based on its customers' 2025 data (vendor)

Sample: Zylo customer data: 40 million SaaS licenses and $75 billion in spend under management; survey of 218 IT leaders for the cost questions.

rise in spending on AI-native SaaS apps in a year, and 393% in organizations with more than 10,000 employees (vendor data)

Sample: Zylo customer data: 40 million SaaS licenses and $75 billion in spend under management; survey of 218 IT leaders for the cost questions.

of SaaS licenses go unused on average, measured against recommended use levels (vendor data)

Sample: Zylo customer data: 40 million SaaS licenses and $75 billion in spend under management; survey of 218 IT leaders for the cost questions.

of SaaS spend is controlled by business units rather than IT, which manages just 15% (vendor data)

Sample: Zylo customer data: 40 million SaaS licenses and $75 billion in spend under management; survey of 218 IT leaders for the cost questions.

of IT leaders faced unexpected charges from consumption-based or AI pricing in the last 12 months (vendor survey of 218)

Sample: Survey of 218 IT leaders by Zylo.

of cloud spend is wasted, by respondents' own estimate, the first rise in five years as AI workloads grow (vendor survey)

Sample: Global survey of more than 750 cloud decision-makers and users.

of cloud decision-makers say their organization uses generative AI, up from 72% a year earlier and 47% in 2024 (vendor survey)

Sample: Global survey of more than 750 cloud decision-makers and users.

of large enterprises spend more than $5 million a month on cloud services (vendor survey)

Sample: Global survey of more than 750 cloud decision-makers and users.

of developers built in-house software in the past year (or plan to) to replace paid vendors; over half of them use AI to do it

Sample: Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, 30,903 responses; this question n = 13,338.