What UK councils and other public buyers pay for IT contracts

This page shows what UK public buyers paid when they awarded IT, software and cyber contracts. Every figure is worked out from official award notices published on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, and every award in the table below links to its notice.

What the contracts were worth

£153,090

median award value

£63,056 to £518,324

middle half of awards

2,077

awards counted, November 2025 to February 2026

£75,505

median value per year, contracts of a year or more

Bidfeed counted 2,077 IT awards with a stated value, published between 3 Nov 2025 and 20 Feb 2026. Half were worth less than £153,090 and half were worth more. The middle half were between £63,056 and £518,324.

1,413 of the 2,077 were given to a firm that was already on a supplier list. Those are real contracts at real prices, but only firms on the list could compete for them.

Set aside from the figures: 201 awards were for a supplier list (a framework or a dynamic market). The value on those is the most the buyer may spend across every supplier on the list for its whole life. That is not a price any one firm is paid, so they are not in the figures. They are listed separately below. 21 stated no value. 172 were published more than a year after the contract was awarded, so their prices are out of date. 24 stated a value under £100, which buyers type as a placeholder. They are not counted as prices.

How long the contracts run

1,774 of the awards state a start and an end date. The median length is 24 months. An award value is the total for the whole contract, not a price per year. For the 1,172 contracts of a year or longer, the median value per year is £75,505, and the middle half sit between £31,562 and £263,699 a year.

By type of buyer

Grouped by what each buyer calls itself in its own notice, the same way the IT contracts open now page groups them. A group with fewer than 10 awards shows its count only.

By region

Where the notice names one region. 919 awards name no region and are left out of this table. A region with fewer than 10 awards shows its count only.

Who wins the work

1,885 of the awards state the size of the winning firm. 653 of those went to small or medium firms, which is 35 in every 100. The buyer records the size of the winner in its own notice.

Recent awards

The 12 most recently awarded, newest first. The value is the total the buyer stated for the whole contract.

Supplier lists set up

201 awards were for a supplier list rather than one contract. These values are ceilings: the most the buyer may spend with every supplier on the list over the whole arrangement. The median ceiling is £8,800,000. The newest:

What these figures mean, and what they do not

• Each value is the total the buyer stated in its award notice, for the whole contract. It is not a price per visit, per hour or per year.
• The median is the middle award. It is less affected by one very large contract than an average would be.
• 1,775 of the 2,077 awards come from Contracts Finder, which carries the smaller contracts in England. The other 302 come from Find a Tender, which carries the larger contracts across the UK. Smaller contracts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are published on other services, so they are under-counted.
• Every value is the buyer's own figure. Bidfeed does not check it against what was paid in the end.
• The figures cover the 365 days up to the newest award Bidfeed holds, which was published on 20 Feb 2026. They are refreshed from the official services every few weeks, not every day.
• A contract value is what a buyer paid one firm for one job. It is not a quote and it is not what your firm would be paid.

For the IT work that is open to bid for now, see the IT contracts open now.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.