How many IT and software companies are there in Poland?

The number

38,549 active registered it and software companies. That is the count in our Polish register snapshot as of August 2026, restricted to entities with an active status and a registered activity classification in this sector.

The figure counts registered legal entities. Counts that include sole traders operating under CEIDG run much higher, because a large share of Polish activity in every sector is carried out by one-person businesses that never appear in the company register.

The shape of this sector is unusual. 9,182 of the 18,777 companies with filed revenue turn over less than 100,000 zloty, and only 370 turn over more than 10 million. Polish IT is a very large number of very small entities, many of them single contractors incorporated for tax reasons, with a small number of genuine software houses on top.

Where they are

Mazowieckie holds 40.2% of the sector, against 33.3% of the register as a whole, so the concentration here is higher than the national pattern.

The largest cities

Silesia is under-represented by city name because it is polycentric. A campaign targeting the region by naming Katowice will miss most of it, and the voivodeship table above is the better filter.

Revenue bands

Filed revenue is available for 18,777 of the 38,549 companies, from the most recent financial year on file, mostly 2022 to 2024. Figures are in Polish zloty.

48.7% of the sector has a filed figure, so revenue is usable as a filter on about half of the market. The companies without one skew smaller and younger, so filtering on revenue quietly biases a list towards established firms.

Website presence

12,870 of 38,549, or 33.4%, have a website in our data. The sector average across the whole Polish register is 21.9 percent.

That matters because most prospecting stacks begin with a domain: find the company, find the site, guess the email pattern, verify it. Remove the site and the chain breaks at step one, so a domain-first workflow covers only the online slice of this sector and misses the rest.

New registrations

Companies registered in each year that are still active today.

The 2026 row covers January to August only. Because the population is restricted to companies that are still active, older cohorts are understated by the firms that have since closed.

What this means for targeting

Filter hard or you will sell to contractors. Nearly half the sector by filed revenue is under 100,000 zloty a year, which is one person. If you are selling anything that needs a team, the addressable market is the 1,831 companies above 2 million zloty, not the 38,549 in the register.

Geography does most of the work. Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław and Poznań hold 21,911 of the 38,549, and those four cities are where the software houses with delivery teams actually sit.

Web presence is the highest in the register at 33.4 percent, so a domain-based workflow performs better here than anywhere else in Poland. It still misses two companies in three.

How the count was made

The snapshot is built from Polish register data, deduplicated on registration number and filtered to entities with an active status. Sector is derived from the registered activity classification and grouped into the categories used across this site, so a company with mixed activity is assigned to its primary classification.

Revenue is the most recent filed figure available per company rather than a common year, so the bands describe the register as filed rather than a single accounting period. Website presence means we hold a domain associated with the record, not that the site is live today.

Every figure on this page comes from one query against that snapshot.