Our infographic summarises the size, skills, sectors and focal areas for IT companies in Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire. There are 284 companies in the area, which is very high given the population size. 65% of companies have less than 10 employees, and 20% have more than 20 employees.Once again Software Development comes out as the top skill ... Read more

Importance of technology for all businesses In the last two decades there has been an enormous growth and increase in the use of technology. From small to large scale business activities there are tens of thousands of processes that are technology based without which a business would definitely not be able to cope with the ... Read more

This infographic takes a look at companies in Scotland that work with Internet of Things, Financial Services and Software Development. You can click on each tab to compare the company areas and get some insights into the makeup of the Scottish Tech market. We will be publishing our innovation index later this year and expect ... Read more

Scotland has a rich history when it comes to entrepreneurship, with hundreds of successful start-ups starting their journey in the highlands. Shaped by entrepreneurs such as Andrew Carnegie who revolutionised the American steel industry, Alexander Graham Bell who invented the telephone, Brian Souter who founded the StageCoach group,  Lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone or Peter Cashmore ... Read more

Google recently announced that it would make all plain HTTP pages on the web “not secure”. But what does this mean? What is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS and how can one make sure to comply with Google’s policies? We take a look at this in this article, as well as recent changes at ... Read more

Company Connecting has completed a major piece of research on Scottish technology companies formed between September 2014 and December 2017. We based our research on the Scottish companies registered at Companies House with a SIC code classification  which indicated some sort of IT, software or telecoms activity. This article complements our previous article on the ... Read more

Continuing our series on the Internet of Things our guest author Dominc Wolf takes a bit of an alternative view! The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the use of intelligently connected devices and systems to leverage data gathered by embedded sensors and actuators in machines and other physical objects? That’s a mouthful, right?  So, ... Read more

Company Connecting continues its infographic series with a look at the tech companies working in the area of IoT (Internet of Things). We have included IoT related skills i.e., Big Data, and Analytics Skills.The infographic provides information on 196 Scottish IT and telecoms companies that provide products and / or services relating to IoT i.e. 7% of the IT and ... Read more

This week’s Company Connecting infographic compares IT and Telecoms companies in Glasgow and Edinburgh. There are 695 companies in Glasgow and 705 in Edinburgh which is about 50% of the tech companies in Scotland. Company Connecting has detailed information on 4,437 tech companies of which 2,763 are in Scotland. In the infographic below you can use the tabs ... Read more

We have updated our infographic on Edinburgh IT and telecoms companies. The previous Edinburgh infographic  was published in February 2017 and we looked at companies in the City of Edinburgh council area. This time we take a look at 705 Individual companies registered in Edinburgh i.e. 26% of the IT and telecoms companies in Scotland. Company Connecting has detailed ... Read more