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Cloud migration contracts

UK public sector · 58 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
58
Last 12 months
Median contract
£1.2m
Recorded value
Recorded value
£617m
50 of 51 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
39
Suppliers
42

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

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most cloud migration contracts took 22% of them (13 of 58).
  • The median contract, £1.2m, is 11.2 times the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
  • Ministry of Defence awarded 12% of the cloud migration contracts (7 of 58).

Who buys cloud migration

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

  1. 1Ministry of Defence7 contracts
  2. 2H M REVENUE & CUSTOMS5 contracts
  3. 3Home Office4 contracts
  4. 4Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs3 contracts
  5. 5Department for Work and Pensions3 contracts
  6. 6UK Shared Business Services (UK SBS)3 contracts
  7. 7Glasgow City Council1 contract
  8. 8Department of Health and Social Care1 contract
  9. 9Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government1 contract
  10. 10Digital Health and Care Wales1 contract

Top cloud migration contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Kainos3 contracts
  2. 2Capgemini3 contracts
  3. 3Appvia Ltd3 contracts
  4. 4Amazon Web Services (AWS)2 contracts
  5. 5Accenture2 contracts
  6. 6ANS Group2 contracts
  7. 7Phoenix Software2 contracts
  8. 8Storm ID2 contracts
  9. 9DataVita Ltd1 contract
  10. 10Cadence Innova1 contract

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

16Q4 2025*14Q1 202617Q2 202611Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 51 · Scotland 5 · Wales 2

London13South West7North West6Scotland5West Midlands3South East3Wales2East of England1UK-wide or not stated18

What is included

A cloud partner moves the buyer's infrastructure and workloads into public cloud or out of a data centre, builds the landing zone or cloud platform, and may run and support the cloud estate afterwards.

  • Cloud migration and infrastructure transformation
  • Azure or AWS landing zone design and build
  • Data centre exit and migration
  • Cloud tenancy stand-up by the provider's professional services
  • Container platform build and support
  • 24/7 cloud operations, management and support
  • Cloud integration services
  • Data centre consolidation, rationalisation and exit programmes

What is not included

  • The cloud consumption itself (see Cloud hosting)
  • Migrating a specific product such as Informatica or IBM TRIRIGA: the family that owns that product
  • Microsoft 365 tenant migration: another family: productivity and collaboration software
  • Hosting of a named application by a UK host (see Managed application hosting)

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