Use of externally-hosted web services by United Kingdom (UK) businesses 2019, by size

This statistic illustrates the share of businesses that used externally-hosted web services to host websites or email, or transfer or store data in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2019. 60 percent of UK businesses used some sort of externally-hosted web service. Among these UK businesses, 62 percent of large firms (207 large firms among 1,566 businesses) used these type of services.
Externally-hosted web services can be referred to as cloud computing. The use of cloud computing considerably increased among UK businesses in recent years. In simple terms, cloud computing means storing and accessing data over the internet instead of your computer's hard drive.