How many cybersecurity and IT services companies are in Saudi Arabia?
Cybersecurity, network management and IT consultancy.
9,520
active registrations list cybersecurity & it services activities — 0.7% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
9,520 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list cybersecurity & it services activities as of 16 September 2026 — 0.7% of all classified registrations, the 59th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
2,395 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +19.2% on 2024, in line with the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (5,973), Jeddah (1,209) and Khobar (417) lead. Relative to its size, Riyadh is the most concentrated: cybersecurity and IT services companies make up 2.1× the share they hold nationally.
84.8% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 9,520
- 0.7% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 2,395
- +19.2% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 84.8%
- 8,070 of 9,520
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where cybersecurity and IT services companies are registered
Column height: cybersecurity and IT services companies by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh5,9732.1×
- Jeddah1,2091.2×
- Khobar4172.0×
- Dammam3720.9×
- Makkah3150.7×
- Madinah2490.7×
- Jubail850.3×
- Buraydah850.4×
- Taif570.3×
- Abha460.5×
Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.
Cybersecurity & IT services: registrations by year of creation
Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.
Most common activities
Registrations listing each national activity code
- Cybersecurity6,476Activity code 620214
- Network and IT management and monitoring services2,899Activity code 620211
- ICT consultancy57Activity code 620213
- Managed security operations services45Activity code 620215
- Other IT and computer services26Activity code 620900
- Computer consultancy17Activity code 620212
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- LLC7,86482.6%
- Sole proprietorship1,35914.3%
- JSC1281.3%
- Foreign branch820.9%
- SJSC600.6%
- General partnership120.1%
- GCC branch90.1%
- Limited partnership60.1%
Common questions
How many cybersecurity and IT services companies are there in Saudi Arabia?
9,520 active commercial registrations list cybersecurity & it services activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.
Which city has the most cybersecurity and IT services companies?
Riyadh, with 5,973 — 62.7% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 1,209.
Is the number of cybersecurity and IT services companies growing?
2,395 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +19.2% on 2024, in line with the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in cybersecurity & it services in Saudi Arabia?
Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
Starting a business in cybersecurity & it services?
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