Executive Summary
European cybersecurity was valued at USD 63.12 billion (Mordor Intelligence) to USD 81.81 billion (IMARC) in 2025, with forecast CAGRs of 7.1% to 10.62% depending on the publisher. No source publishes a SaaS-only figure, so the analysis rests on the wider cybersecurity market. Network security is the largest segment at 36.0% of the 2025 market. Data security grew fastest in 2025 at 13%, and managed services are forecast to expand at a 13.56% CAGR to 2031. Demand is driven by threat volume and spending: ENISA counted 4,875 incidents between July 2024 and June 2025, with phishing accounting for 60%, and Gartner projects European IT spending of USD 1,427.9 billion in 2026 (+11.1%), with public cloud growing 24%. NIS2 covers 18 sectors with a 24-hour notification duty, DORA has applied since 17 January 2025, and the Cyber Resilience Act reaches full application on 11 December 2027. The competitive field is fragmented: Mordor Intelligence puts the top five vendors at about 45% of the market, with none above 25%, and IMARC finds none above 8-10%. Adoption ranges from 93% in Finland to 52% in Greece, and Poland (+59%), Spain (+20%) and Italy (+15%) posted the fastest growth in 2025. Mordor Intelligence projects USD 115.66 billion by 2031, which points investors toward cloud, managed services and fast-growing Southern and Eastern European markets.
Market Overview
The European cybersecurity market underlying the SaaS segment covers security solutions and services protecting systems, networks, applications, data, endpoints and cloud environments, including IAM, endpoint security, network security, cloud security, data protection, SIEM, managed services and detection and response. Market estimates differ because providers use different taxonomies and scopes: MarketsandMarkets valued the broader European cybersecurity market at USD 50.22 billion in 2024, while Gartner reported USD 47 billion in European security spending for IT security and risk management.
Growth remains sustained across European cybersecurity spending, although estimates vary by publisher. IDC reported 12.3% growth in European security spending in 2024. Mordor Intelligence projects the market to increase from USD 63.12 billion in 2025 to USD 69.82 billion in 2026 and USD 115.66 billion by 2031, implying a 10.62% CAGR for 2026–2031. MarketsandMarkets forecasts growth from USD 50.22 billion in 2024 to USD 54.77 billion in 2025 and USD 83.14 billion in 2030, corresponding to an 8.7% CAGR for 2025–2030, while IMARC projects USD 81.81 billion in 2025 and USD 88.48 billion in 2026, with an 8.16% CAGR for 2026–2034. These differences reflect variations in market scope rather than a single standardized market taxonomy.
Cloud adoption, regulatory requirements and security investment are key structural factors. In 2023, 45.2% of EU enterprises purchased cloud services, including 78% of large enterprises and 44% of SMEs. In 2024, 92.76% of EU enterprises with at least 10 employees implemented at least one ICT security measure. ENISA reported that 70% of organizations identified NIS2, CRA and DORA compliance as their main investment driver in 2025, while the median cybersecurity allocation reached 9% of IT budgets, with median spending of EUR 1.5 million. NIS2 expands cybersecurity requirements to additional sectors, while the CRA introduces cybersecurity by design and by default.
Europe represented a substantial share of global security spending in 2024, with Gartner reporting USD 47 billion in Europe versus USD 215 billion worldwide. This corresponds to approximately 21.9%, calculated from Gartner's figures rather than separately published by Gartner.
Within Europe, the UK, Germany and France together account for more than 50% of the market. CBI reported 2025 market values of EUR 10.36 billion for the UK, EUR 6.87 billion for Germany and EUR 5.23 billion for France, followed by EUR 2.64 billion for the Netherlands, EUR 1.32 billion for Sweden and EUR 794.50 million for Poland. Growth is also pronounced in Central Europe, with IDC reporting 15.4% growth in the Czech Republic and 13.4% in Hungary versus 12.3% across Europe, while Eurostat recorded security-measure adoption of 93% in Finland, 90% in Denmark, and 87% in both the Netherlands and Germany.