IT training contracts
UK public sector · 69 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
- 69
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £40k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £10.9m
- 68 of 69 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 45
- Suppliers
- 50
26 IT training contracts ending in the next 12 months
See which ones
BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most IT training contracts took 29% of them (20 of 69).
- The median contract, £40k, is 63% below the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
- London had the most contracts: 19, or 28% of the total.
Who buys IT training
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Department for Work and Pensions8 contracts£140k
- 2UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)5 contracts£446k
- 3NHS England4 contracts£6.1m
- 4NHS Business Services Authority3 contracts£110k
- 5Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council3 contracts£86k
- 6Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)2 contracts£751k
- 7Financial Conduct Authority2 contracts£224k
- 8Ministry of Justice2 contracts£66k
- 9United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust2 contracts£63k
- 10Companies House2 contracts£41k
Top IT training contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1QA12 contracts£805k
- 2Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts£6.0m
- 3Nexer Digital2 contracts£148k
- 4DATA MANAGEMENT ADVISORS LIMITED2 contracts£35k
- 5University of Edinburgh2 contracts£35k
- 6ProKanban2 contracts£22k
- 7Decoded Limited1 contract£706k
- 8Usw Commercial Services Ltd1 contract£500k
- 9Digital Catapult1 contract£330k
- 10Bramble Hub Limited1 contract£280k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Procurement of Esri ArcGIS training for the NCEA programme (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£13k
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to supplier not published · Awarded 5 October 2026
Learning for Infrastructure Engineering Profession (con_31780) (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£14k
Department for Education to Fast Lane Consulting & Education Services · Awarded 30 September 2026
Ministry of Justice to C4 Media Inc · Awarded 30 September 2026
Department for Work and Pensions to IT Climate Ed, LLC · Awarded 14 September 2026
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to Systems and Network Training Ltd · Awarded 11 September 2026
Department of Health and Social Care to Databricks · Awarded 28 August 2026
Department for Work and Pensions to ProKanban · Awarded 24 August 2026
Department for Work and Pensions to ProKanban · Awarded 19 August 2026
Digital Health and Care Wales to Usw Commercial Services Ltd · Awarded 18 August 2026
Ministry of Defence to Bramble Hub Limited · Awarded 17 August 2026
Largest
NHS England to Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 25 November 2025
NHS England to Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 25 November 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to Decoded Limited · Awarded 17 December 2025
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to Digital Catapult · Awarded 20 January 2026
Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire to QA · Awarded 1 May 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 60 · Wales 7 · Scotland 2
What is included
Instructor-led and managed IT training for staff: courses and certifications in programming, cloud, networking, security, data and software delivery, bought as training frameworks or a managed training service.
- IT training frameworks with technical lots
- Managed IT training services
- Vendor certification courses
What is not included
- Online tech-skills course libraries -> it.ent.online-technical-skills-training
- Microsoft 365 and Copilot user training -> it.ent.productivity-suite-services
- Cyber security courses bought on their own -> it.cyber.security-training-exercises
- Non-IT technical training -> not IT