IT trends 2025: Scaling software innovation in a post-scarcity world

IT trends 2025: scaling software innovation in a post-scarcity world. As we move deeper into 2025, one truth is becoming unavoidable in IT and software: your ability to scale no longer depends solely on architecture or innovation; it depends on how and where you access talent.

According to Deloitte’s Tech Trends 2025, the next wave of transformation won’t be driven by tools alone but by people. AI will rewrite processes, edge computing will decentralize infrastructure, and cloud-native models will continue to blur borders. But to make this happen, you need honest, embedded, collaborative software engineers.

“As both traditional and generative AI capabilities grow, every phase of tech delivery could see a shift from human in charge to human in the loop.” — Tech Trends 2025, DeloitteDI_Tech-trends-2025

From scarcity to strategic capacity

Deloitte highlights a critical bottleneck: the global IT workforce gap has evolved from a hiring issue into a strategic constraint. The report points out that:

“As technology becomes the business, every company will need access to digitally fluent talent internally or through trusted delivery partners.” — DeloitteDI_Tech-trends-2025

This directly reflects the structural problem Eryk Remote IT Services helps solve. As software becomes core to every business, not just tech companies, European companies face rising pressure to deliver digital products faster without compromising quality or continuity. However, this is difficult because of talent constraints, slow hiring cycles, and overloaded internal teams.

IT trends 2025 – How you can scale software innovation in a post-scarcity world. Eryk Remote IT Services supports this transition by helping companies build their own dedicated remote IT teams, not external vendors or project-based freelancers but fully embedded software engineers working in their systems, sprints, and time zones. This is about long-term continuity and capacity, not one-off outsourcing.

We help CTOs and IT leaders address all five pillars Deloitte identifies in the “Business of Technology” macro-force:

  • Engineering: By scaling delivery teams with experienced developers fluent in modern stacks
  • Infrastructure: By ensuring secure, remote-ready team setups across borders
  • Finance Operations: By offering a leaner, more predictable cost structure than internal hiring
  • Talent: By giving you immediate access to skilled sofware engineers without competing in saturated local markets
  • Innovation: By freeing up internal resources to focus on product strategy instead of recruitment bottlenecks

In short, Eryk Remote IT Services bridges the gap between the digital outcomes companies want and the team structures they need to achieve them.

“Forward-thinking IT leaders are using the current moment as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to redefine roles and responsibilities, set investment priorities, and communicate value expectations.” — DeloitteDI_Tech-trends-2025

For European SaaS, PropTech, and FinTech firms, especially those in Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, global sourcing and farshoring must become a frontline strategy, not a fallback.

The new role of farshoring – global sourcing

Deloitte notes a rising reliance on “multimodal delivery ecosystems”, blending internal teams with farshored and globally sourced software engineers to deliver quickly. This strategy offers:

  • Reduced burnout
  • Enhanced velocity
  • Parallel development streams
  • Better agility under pressure

“High-performing teams will be global by default.” — DeloitteDI_Tech-trends-2025

This is not a prediction. It’s already happening. For example, AI-enhanced developer tools enable teams to code faster, test automatically, and handle greater complexity, provided they can access the right talent. That’s where compaies like Eryk Remote IT Services fit in. We help European companies farshore their IT functions to our services station in Africa, Lagos, Nigeria by embedding remote developers into their product teams, working in their systems, sprints, and time zones. Think of it as distributed velocity, scaling output without scaling burnout.

IT trends – AI won’t replace developers; It will demand more from them

Another key insight: AI won’t take your engineering jobs. It will amplify complexity and demand higher-quality inputs.

Deloitte identifies three critical pivots in AI for IT leaders:

  • Small Language Models (SLMs) are more efficient and trainable on domain-specific data
  • Multimodal Models: Capable of merging text, images, video, and spatial data
  • Agentic AI: Can execute tasks independently, not just respond to prompts

“A focus on execution may usher in a new era of agentic AI, arming consumers and organizations with co-pilots capable of transforming how we work and live.” — DeloitteDI_Tech-trends-2025

These shifts will place even more importance on people with contextual engineering skills who can architect systems, maintain core logic, and apply AI where it makes sense. That’s why human engineers remain central, where Eryk’s Remote IT teams excel. Nigerian developers are not just task-runners. They’re trained to think in systems, write maintainable code, and collaborate in real-time across borders. They are fluent in modern stacks such as Java, React, .NET, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, and ready to work with the same mindset as your internal team.

The infrastructure reality check

Deloitte also warns that hardware is back on the strategy table to support this transformation.

“Hardware is reclaiming the spotlight… enterprise laptops are being upgraded with NPUs to run AI locally, reduce cloud spend, and enhance data privacy.” — DeloitteDI_Tech-trends-2025

Forecast: The AI chip market will grow from $50B (2024) to $110–400B by 2027.

This isn’t just about data centers. It’s about your developer’s laptop. Enterprises are beginning to refresh aging devices with NPUs (neural processing units) to run AI models locally, enabling secure, low-latency execution for sensitive workloads.

Why Nigeria fits the 2025 picture 

Against this backdrop, Nigeria is rapidly becoming a strategic source of engineering capacity.

“The future of work is talent fluidity, not headcount.” — DeloitteDI_Tech-trends-2025

According to GitHub and Google’s Africa Developer reports, Nigeria leads Africa in software developer population and open-source contributions. “As enterprises shift from augmenting knowledge to augmenting execution, the most agile teams will be those structured for fluidity, not rigidity.” — DeloitteDI_Tech-trends-2025

Why this matters to your IT roadmap?

AI and edge computing will change your systems, but only talent will change your outcomes. Deloitte’s report serves as a wake-up call: the bottleneck is not tools. It’s people. Access to collaborative, context-aware developers is now as important as choosing the right cloud provider.

And that’s where, when done right, farshoring to Nigeria becomes an accelerant, not a compromise. The IT and software landscape of 2025 isn’t defined by the tools you use but by how fast you can bring ideas to life and who you are building them with.

Now more than ever, strategic capacity is human. “The most promising and profitable futures will likely emerge from intentional intersections across industries and technologies.” — Tech Trends 2025, Deloitte

Your competitors are scaling without hiring. Are you?
Reach out to our sales team to discover how modern CTOs are building software capacity with distributed teams without compromising quality or culture.