Ambera
Start free

Market size · Germany

Software and IT (Germany)

Software, IT services and hardware in Germany, as the industry association and the statistical office report them.

Forge’s own description of what this market covers. A ruler for the size of a market, read once a year from the publishers below — it holds no sector and no company.

As its publishers state it

€235.0 bn2025 · Bitkom · EUR€245.1 bn by 2026 · 4.3 % a year — Bitkom’s outlook, not Forge’s
€175.7 bn2021 · Statistisches Bundesamt · EURNo outlook published by Statistisches Bundesamt

As of Sep 30, 2026 · 16 figures carried · never averaged, never Forge’s.

How big this market is, as its publishers state it

as of Sep 30, 2026 · 16 figures carried

2 publishers carried, 2018–2026, 1 with a published outlook, the furthest to 2026. Figures are the publishers' own, shown side by side and never averaged.

Last read Sep 30, 2026: wrote 0 figures and 1 stated rate, refused 4 already stored.

Forge measures none of this. A statistical body publishes the history and its own outlook; Forge copies the figures with the sentence each came from and refreshes once a year, when the publishers do. A growing market says you are not building into a headwind — it says nothing about whether this application has customers.

Where its publishers say it is going

  • €245.1 bnby 2026 · Bitkom’s outlook, published 20264.3 % a year from €235.0 bn in 2025, implied by its own two figures

    Bitkom: projects to 2026 from 2025, its last observed year — 4.3 % a year implied by its own two figures; Bitkom itself states 5.4 % a year over 2025–2026.

    In Bitkom’s words, 2025–2026 (published 2026): Für 2026 erwartet Bitkom in der IT ein Umsatzplus von 5,4 Prozent auf 170,8 Milliarden Euro. source

  • Bitkom· outlook dashed
  • Statistisches Bundesamt
BitkomEUR · latest release 2026 · outlook after 2025

Bitkom: grew 6.7 % a year, 2020–2025, by its own figures.

YearFigureKindPublishedIn the publisher’s words
2020€169.8 bnhistory2020Der ITK-Markt ging um 0,6 Prozent auf 169,8 Milliarden Euro zurück, was vor allem am schwächeren Geschäft mit IT-Dienstleistungen und Software lag.As the read noted: This figure is the total ITK market (IT+TK+CE) for 2020, reported as history in a 2021 Bitkom release. source
2021€178.4 bnhistory2022Bereits 2021 stieg der Umsatz auf dem ITK-Markt deutlich. Das Volumen wuchs um 3,9 Prozent auf 178,4 Milliarden Euro, was vor allem am guten Geschäft mit IT-Hardware und Software lag. source
2022€196.1 bnhistory2023 (+1 earlier)2022 konnten die Anbieter ihre Einnahmen im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um vier Prozent von 188,6 auf 196,1 Milliarden Euro steigern.As the read noted: Total ITK market figure quoting Bitkom; Bitkom's own release page was not directly retrievable. source
2023€215.0 bnhistory2024Im vergangenen Jahr hätten die ITK-Umsätze um 2,0 Prozent auf 215 Milliarden Euro zugelegt, so Bitkom. source
2024€225.9 bnhistory2025Im vergangenen Jahr hatten die ITK-Umsätze um 4,7 Prozent auf 225,9 Milliarden Euro zugelegt. source
2025€235.0 bnhistory2026Im vergangenen Jahr hatten die ITK-Umsätze um 3,9 Prozent auf rund 235 Milliarden Euro zugelegt.As the read noted: Revised actual figure for 2025, published in Bitkom's January 2026 release (superseding the earlier 235.8bn forecast). source
2026€245.1 bnBitkom’s outlook2026Der Markt für IT und Telekommunikation (ITK) wächst 2026 voraussichtlich um 4,4 Prozent auf 245,1 Milliarden Euro – getragen vor allem von Software und digitalen Infrastrukturen. source
Statistisches BundesamtEUR · latest release 2024

Statistisches Bundesamt: 2018–2021 is too short to state a rate.

YearFigureKindPublishedIn the publisher’s words
2018€152.4 bnhistory2020Mit rund 152,4 Milliarden Euro (50,5 %) entfiel der größte Teil des Gesamtumsatzes auf den WZ 62.As the read noted: WZ 62 (IT services) turnover for reporting year 2018. source
2021€175.7 bnhistory2024 (+1 earlier)rund 175,7 Mrd. EUR auf den Bereich "Erbringung von Dienstleistungen der Informationstechnologie" (WZ 62)As the read noted: Turnover for WZ 62 (IT services) in Germany for reporting year 2021, from Destatis's structural business statistics page. source

Software and IT elsewhere

The same industry as other publishers state it for their own place. Each figure is its publisher’s frame; none is compared with another.

Other markets in Europe

What else the yearly read measures in this region.

Start free

Where does your product stand in software and it?

An account adds your own product against the market, every week: a brief with a source under every line, the market-fit number with its components one click behind it, and a board where what you decide lands. Free to start, no card.

Start freeSee the market map