Saudi cybersecurity market reached SAR 16.3 billion in 2025
An NCA report details market spending, GDP contribution and workforce indicators.
Event / data period: 2026-10-14
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Saudi Arabia’s National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) said its 2026 report put the Kingdom’s cybersecurity market at SAR 16.3 billion in 2025. The report gave a compound annual growth rate of 10.7% for 2023–2025. Government entities spent SAR 5.1 billion, while private-sector spending was SAR 11.2 billion.
The NCA estimated the sector’s 2025 contribution to GDP at about SAR 20 billion, comprising SAR 9.7 billion in direct and SAR 10.3 billion in indirect contribution. The cybersecurity workforce exceeded 22,000, with women accounting for 33%. The authority said the study drew on input from public- and private-sector stakeholders, academia and cybersecurity professionals.
Data
Cybersecurity sector indicators
Market, spending, GDP and workforce figures for 2025 reported by the NCA.
- Cybersecurity market
- 16,300 million SAR
- 2025 · Observed
- Market CAGR, 2023–2025
- 10.7 percent
- 2025 · Observed
- Government cybersecurity spending
- 5,100 million SAR
- 2025 · Estimate
- Government spending share
- 31 percent
- 2025 · Observed
- Private cybersecurity spending
- 11,200 million SAR
- 2025 · Observed
- Private-sector spending share
- 69 percent
- 2025 · Observed
- Sector GDP contribution
- 20,000 million SAR
- 2025 · Estimate
- GDP contribution CAGR, 2023–2025
- 13.2 percent
- 2025 · Observed
- Direct GDP contribution
- 9,700 million SAR
- 2025 · Observed
- Indirect GDP contribution
- 10,300 million SAR
- 2025 · Observed
- More than 22,000 cybersecurity professionals
- ≥22,000 people
- 2025 · Estimate
- Workforce CAGR, 2023–2025
- 5.9 percent
- 2025 · Observed
- Women’s share of workforce
- 33 percent
- 2025 · Observed
- Cybersecurity products
- 8,300 million SAR
- 2025 · Observed
- Product share of market
- 51 percent
- 2025 · Observed
- Cybersecurity services
- 7,900 million SAR
- 2025 · Observed
- Services share of market
- 49 percent
- 2025 · Observed
- Approximate global women workforce-share benchmark
- ≈22 percent
- 2025 · Estimate
Methodology
Values are NCA-reported indicators for reference year 2025; CAGR labels specify the 2023–2025 interval. Approximate and lower-bound qualifiers are retained where stated by the source.
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