I’ve been trying to come up with a way to gather some real world data on this question for a while now and figure that TR is probably the best place to get some honest answers.
I work in a small IT department for a large Social Enterprise in the UK. We do everything in house, from server virtualisation to storage networks to WANs to Telephony to application development.
I am currently arguing the case for more staff, but have been told that I need to justify increased numbers. Trouble is for me its plain as day that if I have more staff I can get more done and make the enterprise more efficient and effective and I’m finding it really hard to generate a comparative table showing other enterprises and companies and their IT workforce size.
So if you have a moment, please reply to this with the following information:
Company Sector: Employment – Social Enterprise
Company Turnover: ??23m
IT Budget : ??460k
Number of employees who are IT Users: 350
Number of Physical locations on WAN:32
Number of printers: 110
Number of desktop devices: 300
Number of mobile devices: 150
Number of Servers Supported(virtual or otherwise): 150
Application Developers:3
IT Staff in first line: 2
IT staff in 2nd line: 4
IT staff in 3rd line: 2
IT management: 1
All projects are completed in house with an occasional day or two of external consultancy to get a project complete on time or to get a project started. All services are in house (rather than external).
WAN Management: in house
Telephony: in house
Server Management: in house
Messaging: in house
Database management: in house
Application Development of core business reliant Apps: in house
Web development (external and intranet): in house
CCTV/security (id cards etc) in house
What are your departments vital stats? Please Share!