Manufacturing industry: use of cloud computing services 2020

In 2020, 32% of all enterprises in the UK manufacturing industry with over 10 employees purchased high Cloud Computing services, for example CRM software or computing power. This almost doubled the percentage of enterprises that bought such services compared to the 18% that did so in 2018.
Enterprises in the UK manufacturing industry also bought a significantly bigger share of financing and accounting software applications in 2020 then they did in 2018, raising the share from 12% to 26%.

Purchase of cloud computing services in manufacturing enterprises in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018 and 2020 by cloud services

Characteristic	2018	2020
Buy high CC services (accounting software applications, CRM software, computing power)	18%	32%
Buy storage of files	27%	29%
Buy finance or accounting software applications	12%	26%
Buy hosting for the enterprise's database	11%	16%
Buy Customer Relationship Management software	8%	12%
Buy computing power to run the enterprise's own software	6%	7%
Buy office software (e.g. word processors, spreadsheets, etc.)	26%	-
Buy e-mail	26%	-

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Release date

May 2019

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2018 to 2020

Supplementary notes

Data includes only enterprises with over 10 employees
Data given are based on the annual Eurostat Model Questionnaires on ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) usage and e-commerce in enterprises. The aim of the European ICT usage surveys is to collect and disseminate harmonized and comparable information on the use of Information and Communication Technologies in enterprises and e-commerce at European level.

Data coverage corresponds to code isoc_cicce_use of the European ICT usage surveys.

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