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UK public sector · 80 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
80
Last 12 months
Median contract
£500k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£296m
70 of 71 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
64
Suppliers
28

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most cloud hosting contracts took 50% of them (40 of 80).
  • The median contract, £500k, is 4.6 times the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
  • UK Shared Business Services (UK SBS) awarded 6% of the cloud hosting contracts (5 of 80).

Who buys cloud hosting

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1UK Shared Business Services (UK SBS)5 contracts
  2. 2Department for Work and Pensions4 contracts
  3. 3Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)3 contracts
  4. 4Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency2 contracts
  5. 5South Ayrshire Council2 contracts
  6. 6NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit2 contracts
  7. 7Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  8. 8H M REVENUE & CUSTOMS2 contracts
  9. 9NHS England2 contracts
  10. 10VisitBritain / VisitEngland (British Tourist Authority)2 contracts

Top cloud hosting contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Phoenix Software13 contracts
  2. 2Oracle9 contracts
  3. 3Amazon Web Services (AWS)7 contracts
  4. 4Softcat6 contracts
  5. 5Trustmarque5 contracts
  6. 6SoftwareOne4 contracts
  7. 7Telana Limited3 contracts
  8. 8GOOGLE CLOUD EMEA Limited3 contracts
  9. 9Strategic Blue Services Ltd3 contracts
  10. 10Insight3 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

19Q4 2025*28Q1 202618Q2 202614Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 73 · Scotland 5 · Wales 2

London11Yorkshire and The Humber7South West7North West6East of England6South East5East Midlands4Scotland4North East3West Midlands3Wales2UK-wide or not stated22

What is included

Metered hyperscale cloud infrastructure and platform services (compute, storage, databases, PaaS), bought from the provider or through a reseller or cloud solution provider (CSP), including committed spend, subscriptions and cloud billing.

  • AWS, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure consumption
  • Azure monetary commitments and prepaid cloud spend
  • CSP subscriptions and billing for cloud resources
  • Moving a cloud subscription to a new CSP
  • Consumption call-offs for cloud tenancies under G-Cloud

What is not included

  • Migration, landing zones and ongoing cloud operations by a partner (see Cloud migration)
  • Hosting of a named application by a UK hosting provider (see Managed application hosting)
  • Microsoft 365 and other SaaS subscriptions: another family: productivity and collaboration software
  • CSP licence resale with no product named (see Unspecified infrastructure and IT services)

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