Mind you, the IT services figures that Gartner studies are the ones for the mammoth IT services companies, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, Accenture, and CSC — among others. So, these numbers primarily refer to the enterprise and federal market. There really aren’t any surprises when it comes to share. These are the top 5 IT services firms, ranked by 2010 revenue share.

1. IBM – $56.4 billion (7.1 percent share)
2. HP – $35.4 billion (4.5 percent share)
3. Fujitsu – $24.1 billion (3 percent share)
4. Accenture – $22.2 billion (2.8 percent share)
5. CSC $16.1 billion (2 percent share)

But here are some other tidbits that I found intriguing from a competitive standpoint:

• HP had the weakest growth rate, eeking out just a 0.3 percent increase (a relatively “puny” $100 million) during 2010
• Firms from India still are growing faster than the industry average; collectively, the posted growth of 18.9 percent, increasing their share to 5.5 percent of the market

The most active services areas? Software support, and consulting and development/integration serivces that were put on hold during the recession.

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Ouch.

HP services fared poorly in the fourth quarter compared to IBM and Accenture, according to this “Heard on the Street” entry.  Revenue for HP’s services arm (including what’s left of the old  EDS) fell 2% year-over-year for that period. Salt in the wound, IBM’s services revenue and that of Accenture both rose 12% in that same period.

HP partners might laud this if they think  they can make up for HP’s own services deficit.  But the problem is that HP gambled big on serivces when it bought EDS three years ago for nearly $13 billion. Since then, execution has lagged. It also seems to indicate that the cuts and tweaking HP initiated last June to get itself down to fighting weight haven’t done the trick.

This tidbit also makes one wonder whether Oracle’s stated plan to leave services to big partners is a risk or a plus for that software giant. Oracle does field a consulting arm but it is minute compared to the IBM and HP services groups.

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