India Technology: 2Q26 CIO Survey: IT Services: 2026 Budget Growth Expectations Reduced

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India Technology: 2Q26 CIO Survey: IT Services: 2026 Budget Growth Expectations Reduced

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July 16, 2026 02:22 AM GMT

Morgan Stanley India Company Private Limited+MIndia Technology: 2Q26 CIO Survey | Asia Pacific Gaurav Rateria

Equity Analyst

IT Services: 2026 Budget Gaurav.Rateria@morganstanley.comSulabh Govila, CFA +91 22 6118-2237

Sulabh.Govila@morganstanley.com +91 22 6118-2249

Growth Expectations Reduced Shreshtha Chopra

Research Associate

Shreshtha.Chopra@morganstanley.com +91 22 6118-2227

2026 IT Services budget expectations indicate deceleration vs. Sakshi Rana

the 1Q26 survey, despite improving overall IT budget ResearchSakshi.Rana@morganstanley.comAssociate +91 22 6118-1002

expectations.M

Key Takeaways

AI spending remains largely additive but is increasingly funded through IT budget India Technology

reallocations rather than net-new budget dollars. Asia Pacific

Industry View In-Line

Vendor discounting trends remain broadly stable and ongoing vendor

consolidation is creating selective share-gain opportunities.

GenAI is most widely deployed across IT Operations , Software Development,

Customer Service, and Supply Chain and Inventory Management in organizations.

Public cloud migration momentum remains intact, with CIOs expecting cloud

workloads to increase meaningfully through 2028.

Slight improvement in 2026 IT budget growth expectations: In our latest CIO

Survey, CIOs pointed to modestly more constructive 2026 IT budget growth (3.8%

growth in 2026) vs. the 1Q26 survey (3.7% growth), with levels remaining below the

4.1% 2010-2019 average. Sequentially, 2026 IT budget growth expectations have

improved for Communications (+2.6%, +35 bps QoQ) and Hardware (+1.6%, +12 bps

QoQ), while those for Software budgets have remained stable (+4.1%).