SA ICT Regional Market Sizing and Forecast 2025

Introduction

This SA ICT regional market publication presents estimates of the IT and telecoms spend of each province, broken down by vertical and by ICT category for the past calendar year, 2024.

The publication analyses the prospects for the ICT market for the period 2025 to 2029, per province. A dashboard for each province offers a profile of the region, and brief overviews are provided of the economic conditions and structural developments within each province. A spreadsheet with detailed tables forms a companion deliverable, in addition to this report.

Table of Contents

Methodology and research components
  • Research components
  • BMIT ICT category segmentation
  • Methodology
South African Economy
  • Economic outlook: GDP growth forecast (1)
  • Economic outlook: GDP growth forecast (2)
  • Economic outlook: Second quarter sectoral GDP growth 2025
South African Provinces – a comparison
  • Provincial comparative sizes: land area and  population
  • Provincial comparative GDP
  • Provincial economic growth 
  • Provincial comparative sizes: employment
  • Provincial comparative sizes: employment and unemployment
  • Employment by province and vertical sector
  • Provincial proportions of knowledge workers, and workers in ICT occupations
  • Number of companies per province
South African Regional ICT Spend
  • ICT spend per province, 2024
  • Comparative GDPR and ICT spend by business, per province, 2024
  • Business ICT market size per province, 2024 (Rm)
  • IT market size per province, 2024 (Rm)
  • Telecoms market size per province, 2024 (Rm)
South African ICT spend and economic profile – per province
Eastern Cape
  • Eastern Cape profile
  • Eastern Cape: business IT market size, by sector, 2024
  • Eastern Cape: business telecoms market size, by sector, 2024
  • Eastern Cape forecast IT spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • Eastern Cape forecast telecoms spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • Eastern Cape forecast IT and telecoms spend, by company size and ICT category, 2024 to 2029
  • Eastern Cape economic growth
  • Eastern Cape: economic sectors (1)
  • Eastern Cape: economic sectors (2)
  • Eastern Cape Provincial priorities for 2025/26
  • Eastern Cape Provincial Medium Term Development Plan
  • Eastern Cape’s development zones (IDZs and SEZs)
  • Eastern Cape: provincial economic plans and support (1) 
  • Eastern Cape: provincial economic plans and support (2)
  • Eastern Cape: ECDC developmental funding
  • Eastern Cape: prospects
  • Eastern Cape automotive industry: challenges & opportunities
  • Eastern Cape: inhibitors of growth and development
  • Eastern Cape: provincial broadband
  • Eastern Cape: technological opportunities and threats
  • Eastern Cape: small business sector
  • Eastern Cape – major capital investments
  • Eastern Cape – infrastructure investments (1)
  • Eastern Cape – infrastructure investments (2)
Free State
  • Free State profile
  • Free State: business IT market size, by sector, 2024
  • Free State: business telecoms market size, by sector, 2024
  • Free State forecast IT spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • Free State forecast telecoms spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • Free State forecast IT and telecoms spend, by company size and ICT category, 2024 to 2029
  • Free State economic growth
  • Free State: economic sectors (1)
  • Free State: economic sectors (2)
  • Free State SEZ and industrial parks
  • Free State: major developments 
  • Free State: broadband and digital developments
Gauteng
  • Gauteng profile
  • Gauteng: business IT market size, by sector, 2024
  • Gauteng: business telecoms market size, by sector, 2024
  • Gauteng forecast IT spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • Gauteng forecast telecoms spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • Gauteng forecast IT and telecoms spend, by company size and ICT category, 2024 to 2029
  • Gauteng economic growth
  • Gauteng: economic sectors
  • Gauteng industry subsectors by Gauteng’s metros and districts
  • Gauteng: SEZs (1)
  • Gauteng: SEZs (2)
  • Gauteng: government initiatives to promote economic growth
  • Gauteng economic growth: inaugural investment conference outcome
  • Gauteng: Five Development Corridors of The Gauteng City Region
  • Gauteng: industry developments underway
  • Gauteng Broadband and digitisation
KwaZulu-Natal
  • KwaZulu-Natal profile
  • KwaZulu-Natal: business IT market size, by sector, 2024
  • KwaZulu-Natal: business telecoms market size, by sector, 2024
  • KwaZulu-Natal forecast IT spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • KwaZulu-Natal forecast telecoms spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • KwaZulu-Natal forecast IT and telecoms spend, by company size and ICT category, 2024 to 2029
  • KwaZulu-Natal: economic sectors
  • KwaZulu-Natal economic growth
  • KwaZulu-Natal : trade and Industry Development (1)
  • KwaZulu-Natal: trade and Industry Development (2)
  • KwaZulu-Natal: Tourism infrastructure investments
  • KwaZulu-Natal: SEZs and IDZs
  • KwaZulu-Natal broadband and communications: A Partnership for 5G Connectivity
  • KZN Optical Fibre Investment
Limpopo
  • Limpopo profile
  • Limpopo: business IT market size, by sector, 2024
  • Limpopo: business telecoms market size, by sector, 2024
  • Limpopo forecast IT spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • Limpopo forecast IT and telecoms spend, by company size and ICT category, 2024 to 2029
  • Limpopo: economic growth
  • Limpopo : economic sectors
  • Limpopo: SEZs
  • Limpopo: major developments 
  • Limpopo:  major investment developments
  • Limpopo: 21 New Road Projects
  • Limpopo: broadband developments
Mpumalanga
  • Mpumalanga profile
  • Mpumalanga: business IT market size, by sector, 2024
  • Mpumalanga: business telecoms market size, by sector, 2024
  • Mpumalanga forecast IT spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • Mpumalanga forecast telecoms spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • Mpumalanga forecast IT and telecoms spend, by company size and ICT category, 2024 to 2029
  • Mpumalanga economic growth
  • Mpumalanga: economic sectors
  • Mpumalanga geographic GDP
  • Mpumalanga Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (MERRP)
  • Mpumalanga: tourism 
  • Mpumalanga: SEZ
  • Mpumalanga: renewable energy projects – hydrogen (1)
  • Mpumalanga: renewable energy projects – hydrogen (2)
North West
  • North West profile
  • North West: business IT market size, by sector, 2024
  • North West: business telecoms market size, by sector, 2024
  • North West: business telecoms market size, by sector, 2024
  • North West forecast IT spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • North West forecast telecoms spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • North West forecast IT and telecoms spend, by company size and ICT category, 2024 to 2029
  • North West economic growth
  • North West: economic sectors
  • North West: economic developments (1)
  • North West: economic developments (2)
  • North West: renewable energy developments (1)
  • North West: renewable energy developments (2)
  • North West SEZ and Industrial Parks
  • North West: broadband
Northern Cape
  • Northern Cape profile
  • Northern Cape: business IT market size, by sector, 2024
  • Northern Cape: business telecoms market size, by sector, 2024
  • Northern Cape forecast IT spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • Northern Cape forecast telecoms spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • Northern Cape forecast IT and telecoms spend, by company size and ICT category, 2024 to 2029
  • Northern Cape economic growth
  • Northern Cape: Provincial Growth and Development Plan (PGDP) 
  • Northern Cape: economic sectors
  • Northern Cape Jobs Plan 2024-2029
  • Northern Cape Industrial Corridor
  • Northern Cape: SEZs development
  • Northern Cape: The Southern Africa Green Electron and Molecule Vision
  • Northern Cape: infrastructure projects
  • Northern Cape: renewable energy projects (1)
  • Northern Cape: renewable energy projects (2)
  • Northern Cape: renewable energy projects (3)
  • Northern Cape: renewable energy projects (4)
  • Northern Cape: Broadband
Western Cape
  • Western Cape profile
  • Western Cape: business IT market size, by sector, 2024
  • Western Cape: business telecoms market size, by sector, 2024
  • Western Cape forecast IT spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • Western Cape forecast telecoms spend, by vertical, 2024 to 2029
  • Western Cape forecast IT and telecoms spend, by company size and ICT category, 2024 to 2029
  • Western Cape economic growth
  • Western Cape: economic sectors
  • Western Cape: sectoral economic prospects
  • Western Cape: Growth for Jobs strategy
  • Western Cape: Growth for Jobs strategy’s Horizon 1
  • Western Cape: Growth for Jobs strategy
  • Western Cape: energy resilience plans and funding
  • Western Cape: infrastructure projects underway
  • Western Cape: investments and developments (1)
  • Western Cape: investments and developments (2)
  • Western Cape: infrastructure project underway
  • Western Cape: infrastructure projects (1)
  • Western Cape: infrastructure projects (2)
  • Western Cape: infrastructure projects (3)
  • Western Cape: urban mobility projects
  • Western Cape: SEZ

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Deliverables and format

The outcomes of the research and analysis are documented in a rich PowerPoint document with supporting tables in Excel. Clients are also entitled to a presentation/workshop in Johannesburg (may be combined with other topics at BMIT’s discretion). 

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