Published: May 24, 2022, updated: May 28, 2025, Wietze Willem Mulder
Do you want to buy a business or sell your business in the sector?IT Services & Software Development? This Brookz Sector Monitor for the IT Services & Software Development sector can help you with that.
With this Sector Monitor, we want to present (potential) buyers and sellers with facts, figures and a preview that provide insight into the number of transactions, the value development of businesses and the latest trends and developments in IT Services & Software Development. Because in any buying or selling process, thorough preparation provides peace of mind, overview and structure.
The IT Services & Software Development sector contributes almost 5 percent to employment and more than 5 percent to GDP. The sector has a wide variety of businesses, including:
A total of 84,255 businesses are active in the IT Services & Software Development sector, accounting for 3.6 percent of the total number of active businesses in the Netherlands. Typical of the sector is the very large number of self-employed and small businesses. About 84 percent of companies have no employees.
The IT Services & Software Development sector represents a relatively large share of the total number of mergers and acquisitions in the Netherlands. The Brookz Takeover Barometer also shows this picture every six months. Almost one in seven mergers and acquisitions takes place in the IT Services & Software Development sector.
Every party active in the takeover market wants to know the value of a company. With the Brookz Takeover Barometer we gauge the so-called multiples every six months . Looking at the past five years, the multiple for the IT Services & Software Development sector is always significantly higher than the SME average.
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