UK Data Infrastructure Economy
Understand the UK’s Data Infrastructure economy and the companies involved in data centre cooling, data storage, hardware development and more. View sector insights, key metrics and download our free report today.
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What is Data Infrastructure?
Data Infrastructure is a digital infrastructure that promotes data consumption and sharing. Data Infrastructure is normally made up of several different components such as hardware, software, services and more, all of which allow organisations to create and manage their data.
Data Infrastructure plays a vital role in our modern society and economy, allowing the UK’s businesses and organisations to get the most value from their data. Some examples of companies that make up the UK’s broad Data Infrastructure sector include those working in data centre cooling, hardware suppliers, software developers and data store providers.
Data Infrastructure sector summary
Key information you should know about the Data Infrastructure sector from our AI-driven platform of over 5 million companies:
- Data Infrastructure has turnover of £121.99bn, meaning it is our 10th largest RTIC, and our 9th fastest growing sector.
- The Data Infrastructure sector is one of our top 10 sectors for overall venture capital funding.
- The Data Infrastructure sector has not received additional investor attention in recent years and the amount of venture capital funding is not increasing as fast as our other emerging economy sectors.
Data Infrastructure verticals
Our Data Infrastructure RTIC is made up of 7 individual industry verticals, including verticals such as Data Centre Cooling, Data Centres, Data Infrastructure Hardware. You can find out more about the verticals by buying a report, visualising the sector on our platform, or by downloading the data.
- Sector Code Description Records
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RTIC0007 Data Infrastructure 9735 companies
Companies involved in; Data Centre Cooling, Data Centres, Data Storage, Data Infrastructure Hardware, Data Infrastructure Services, Data Infrastructure Software, Trusted Execution Environments.
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Data Infrastructure: Data Centre Cooling204 companies
Companies developing and providing highly efficient cooling technologies for data centres.
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Data Infrastructure: Data Centres1064 companies
Companies providing the technological resources to process the information coming from one or various organisations.
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Data Infrastructure: Data Infrastructure Hardware3477 companies
Companies providing and developing hardware and infrastructural components that make possible systematic data transfer.
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Data Infrastructure: Data Infrastructure Services6118 companies
Companies offering complementary services for overall data practice.
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Data Infrastructure: Data Infrastructure Software2180 companies
Companies developing and commercialising software that contribute to efficient data management, transfer and storage -among others.
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Data Infrastructure: Data Storage2420 companies
Companies focusing in the provision of data governance and storage services.
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Data Infrastructure: Trusted Execution Environments450 companies
Companies structuring secure locations within a principal processor, ensuring that the information is protected.
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Data Infrastructure industry growth
We estimate that the UK Data Infrastructure sector could be worth approximately £329.7bn by 2027, based on the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22%. Below you can see the five year turnover forecast for the RTIC from 2023 to 2027.
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– Summary of RTIC data & industry performance
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– Geographic analysis & breakdown
– Key insights & trends
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