Most companies will increase IT spending in 2025. But there’s a twist in the tale [Video]

The coming year will be a boom time for IT projects, but the impact depends on where you sit. Companies plan to increase tech investments to respond to business challenges or to fund new initiatives. However, these same organizations will be sizing budgets and balancing spending through strategic tech cost-cutting measures.

That is one of the findings from a new survey of 803 IT professionals, released by Spiceworks and Aberdeen Strategy and Research, conducted in July and August 2024. Spiceworks and Aberdeen are part of Ziff Davis, publisher of ZDNET. 

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The study, The State of IT Jobs in 2025, suggests the overall outlook is good. At least 43% of executives said their businesses intend to increase IT staff size compared to 32% two years ago. This year, only a handful of respondents (6%) mentioned decreasing IT staff sizes.  

Most employers (57%) said they have trouble finding employees with the required …