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Norwegian figures: closed businesses are removed from Enhetsregisteret, so closures are only counted from 3 October 2026, when we started collecting. Until then, growth over time looks higher than it really is.

Professional services

IT & software services

IT og programvare

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Active in Norway
24,897
44.2 per 10,000 residents
3-year change
+91.3%
12 months: +29.2%
Opened / closed (12 mo.)
5,619 / 0
Median revenue
–
companies filing accounts

Deeper numbers

Survival, trouble signs, competition and people for it & software services in Norge.

Survival

Survival can't be calculated for Norway yet: closed businesses are removed from Enhetsregisteret, so we only know closures from the day we started collecting.

Trouble signs

Closed within 2 years of opening (last 12 months)0

Annual-report figures appear when companies here have filed accounts.

Financial health

No annual accounts for this combination yet. Only limited companies (AS/ASA) file accounts.

Competition

Run by chains (3+ places)3%
Share of the 3 largest operators0% · 24,132 owners
32 places
21 places
18 places
16 places
15 places

New and established

Openings per 10,000 residents (12 months)9.99
Average age of active businesses6.1 yrs
Younger than 2 years37%
Older than 10 years20%

Distance to the nearest one

Residents more than 5 km from one257,741 · 5%
More than 10 km81,944
Farthest parish (5,000+ residents)6.9 km · Hitra sogn (Hitra)

Measured from each parish centre.

When businesses open and close

05001,0001,5002,000Opened Jan: 1,766Closed Jan: 0JanOpened Feb: 791Closed Feb: 0Opened Mar: 867Closed Mar: 0MarOpened Apr: 720Closed Apr: 0Opened May: 906Closed May: 0MayOpened Jun: 886Closed Jun: 0Opened Jul: 726Closed Jul: 0JulOpened Aug: 957Closed Aug: 0Opened Sep: 1,075Closed Sep: 0SepOpened Oct: 961Closed Oct: 0Opened Nov: 949Closed Nov: 0NovOpened Dec: 707Closed Dec: 0
OpenedClosed

Per calendar month, 2021–2025.

Farthest from the nearest it & software services

Postcodes with at least 10,000 residents, measured from the postcode centre (the average of its addresses) – possible gaps in the local offer.

PostcodeResidentsDistance
9560 Hadsund10,3163.4 km
6630 Rødding10,0042.6 km
7700 Thisted25,2282.6 km
6950 Ringkøbing13,9852.5 km
7620 Lemvig12,8111.9 km
5450 Otterup10,7971.7 km
9300 Sæby12,1711.6 km
6900 Skjern13,1251.5 km
7900 Nykøbing M13,0281.5 km
6430 Nordborg11,3211.5 km

Active in Norway over time

010k20k30k2011Q4 13Q3 16Q2 192022Q4 24IT & software services

Openings and closures per year

02,0004,0006,000Opened 2015: 538Closed 2015: 02015Opened 2016: 616Closed 2016: 0Opened 2017: 779Closed 2017: 02017Opened 2018: 846Closed 2018: 0Opened 2019: 1,037Closed 2019: 02019Opened 2020: 1,157Closed 2020: 0Opened 2021: 1,284Closed 2021: 02021Opened 2022: 1,283Closed 2022: 0Opened 2023: 1,870Closed 2023: 02023Opened 2024: 2,857Closed 2024: 0Opened 2025: 4,017Closed 2025: 02025Opened 2026: 4,646Closed 2026: 0
OpenedClosed

Growing fastest

3-year change in active businesses.

Hustadvika kommune29+314%
Klepp kommune44+214%
Senja kommune27+200%
Flekkefjord kommune18+200%
Askøy kommune75+200%
Kvam kommune14+180%
Stjørdal kommune54+170%
Bjørnafjorden kommune61+165%
Modum kommune29+164%
Giske kommune21+163%

Declining

Municipalities where this type is shrinking.

None shrinking noticeably.

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Most per resident

Densest municipalities (15,000+ residents).

Oslo kommune97.1
Bærum kommune79.2
Asker kommune69.0
Nesodden kommune65.2
Frogn kommune62.1
Nordre Follo kommune60.1
Trondheim kommune57.5
Ås kommune51.0
Færder kommune50.5
Tønsberg kommune49.3

By region

CountyActivePer 10k3-yr change
Agder1,13034.9+88%
Akershus3,97953.1+89%
Buskerud92033.7+93%
Finnmark15620.7+77%
Innlandet89823.7+86%
Møre og Romsdal70926.0+101%
Nordland44718.4+100%
Oslo7,07597.1+86%
Østfold1,07333.9+102%
Rogaland1,68733.1+99%
Telemark46926.4+89%
Troms46927.4+109%
Trøndelag1,77536.3+109%
Vestfold1,18045.5+89%
Vestland2,23834.0+102%

What's included

Businesses whose main Norwegian industry code (SN2025) starts with:

62.10…Dataprogrammeringstjenester
62.20…Konsulentvirksomhet tilknyttet informasjonsteknologi og forvaltning og drift av IT-systemer
62.90…Andre tjenester tilknyttet informasjonsteknologi

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