Business software and digital adoption in Malta

Malta is above the series median on all 8 indicators we hold for it. Its highest placing is 1st of 32 for hard-to-fill ICT vacancies (12.7%), its lowest 13th for documented security policies (39.2%).

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Sebastiaan SmitsFounder

Published28 August 2026

Updated30 September 2026

Evidence8 data points6 sources

12.7%ICT vacancies · 1st of 32

75.1%Paid cloud · 3rd of 33

39.8%CRM · 5th of 33

8/8above the series median

Malta, figure by figure

8 indicators

Ranked 3rd of 33 for paid cloud use: 75.1% of enterprises in Malta buy paid cloud computing services. Finland (79.2%) leads by 4.1 points; the series median is 48.0%. Eurostat isoc_cicce_use, 2025 Verified

At 21.5%, AI use in Malta runs 3.5 points above the median of 18.0% (12th of 33), behind Slovenia (21.6%) and ahead of Lithuania (21.3%). Eurostat isoc_eb_ai, 2025 Verified

Malta places 5th of 33 for CRM use with 39.8%, 15.5 points over the median (24.3%). Belgium (41.4%) is one place ahead, Czechia (36.2%) one behind. Eurostat isoc_eb_iip, 2025 Verified

Malta is 12th of 33 for ERP use, 46.3% against a median of 41.0%; Portugal (48.3%) ranks one higher and Germany (43.5%) one lower. Eurostat isoc_eb_iip, 2025 Verified

24.4% of enterprises in Malta use business intelligence software: 8th of 33, 8.5 points clear of the 15.9% median, with Lithuania (25.2%) directly above. Eurostat isoc_eb_iip, 2025 Verified

For online selling the figure is 35.5%, 5th of 33; Ireland (36.6%) ranks one higher, Montenegro (34.6%) one lower, and the median is 25.5%. Eurostat isoc_ec_esels, 2025 Verified

39.2% of enterprises in Malta hold a documented ICT security policy, 4.8 points more than the 34.4% median and 13th of 33. Eurostat isoc_cisce_ra, 2024 Verified

No country in the series has a higher share than Malta: 12.7% of enterprises had hard-to-fill vacancies for ICT specialists, 3.0 points ahead of the Netherlands (9.7%) in second place and 7.8 above the 4.9% median. Eurostat isoc_ske_itrcrs, 2024 Verified

How Malta compares

Only Denmark (2.9), Finland (4.0), Belgium (5.5) and the Netherlands (6.0) average a higher position than Malta, whose mean rank over 8 indicators is 7.4.

Its highest placing is hard-to-fill ICT vacancies, 1st of 32 at 12.7%; its lowest is documented security policies, 13th at 39.2%.

The gap between ERP (46.3%) and CRM (39.8%) is 6.5 points in Malta, narrower than the 13.9 that is the median across the series.

Against the EU27 value instead of the median, Malta is ahead on 7 of 8: furthest ahead on paid cloud use (+22.4), furthest behind on ERP use (−0.2).

Highest rank first	Malta	Rank	vs median	vs EU27	Year
ICT vacancies	12.7%	1/32	+7.8	+7.2	2024
Paid cloud	75.1%	3/33	+27.1	+22.4	2025
CRM	39.8%	5/33	+15.5	+11.3	2025
E-commerce sales	35.5%	5/33	+10.0	+11.9	2025
BI software	24.4%	8/33	+8.5	+8.1	2025
AI	21.5%	12/33	+3.5	+1.6	2025
ERP	46.3%	12/33	+5.3	−0.2	2025
Security policy	39.2%	13/33	+4.8	+3.7	2024

Software vendors based in Malta

1 in the database

1 product in our software database comes from a vendor headquartered in Malta.

Cloudways: Managed hosting on top of someone else’s cloud. Placed 17 of 18 in Web hosting.

Malta in our reports

2 further figures for Malta are published in our reports:

ICT goods are 24.3% of goods exports in 2024. (Digital economy report, point 29; World Bank 2024)
67.9% of enterprises that tried to recruit ICT specialists reported hard-to-fill vacancies. (ICT skills report, point 24; Eurostat 2024)

Malta is also named in the country rankings of these reports: business software, point 30, cloud, point 31 and e-commerce, point 30.