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What does an other IT and computer services business do?
It provides hands-on technical services, including setting up personal computers, installing software, and recovering computer systems and data after failures.
What does this activity cover?
It covers computer disaster recovery, the installation and setting-up of personal computers, and software installation, the practical IT work not classified under programming, consultancy, or data processing.
How is this different from computer programming or consultancy?
Programming writes software and consultancy designs and manages systems. This activity covers the hands-on setup, installation, and recovery work, each classified as a separate activity.
Why is demand for this work steady?
Computer setup, software installation, and data recovery recur constantly across a digitised economy, and organisations prefer to outsource these tasks rather than staff for them permanently.
Does this activity include data processing and hosting?
No. Data processing and hosting is a separate activity. This covers hands-on services such as PC setup, software installation, and disaster recovery.
How to Start an Other Information Technology and Computer Service Activities Business with Meydan Free Zone
Not every technology job fits a neat category. A laptop fleet needs setting up, new software needs installing across an office, and when systems crash, someone has to get the data back. These are the practical, hands-on IT jobs that keep an organisation running, and this activity is what covers them.
The UAE IT services market is worth around USD 20 billion in 2025 and is forecast to reach close to USD 38 billion by 2030, according to Mordor Intelligence¹. Not all of that spend is large projects: a great deal is everyday technical work, setting up computers, installing software, and recovering systems when they fail, that every digitised organisation needs.
As the UAE pushes cloud adoption and digital government, the volume of this hands-on support work grows alongside the headline projects.
This activity covers the practical technical services that do not fit elsewhere: setting up computers, installing software, and recovering systems after failure. The demand follows every device and system in use.
Sources: Mordor Intelligence: UAE IT Services (2025); Mordor Intelligence: UAE Data Center (2026).
Other IT and computer services businesses sell practical capability: getting computers set up, software installed, and systems back on their feet after a failure. It is a hands-on technical business with a clear, everyday role rather than a single grand project.
Offices, businesses, and institutions rely on it for the support tasks that keep their technology usable, and for recovery when something goes wrong.
The demand is broad precisely because the work is everyday. Every new office fits out computers, every team installs and updates software, and every organisation that depends on data needs a way to recover it when systems fail.
These are not occasional events; they recur constantly across a digitised economy, and they are exactly the tasks that organisations prefer to outsource rather than staff for permanently. As the UAE's IT services market grows at around 13 percent a year and reliance on systems deepens, the steady stream of setup, installation, and recovery work grows with it.
From setting up computers and installing software to recovering systems after a failure, the UAE rewards firms that handle the practical IT work every organisation needs.
Who is this for?
- IT support and services firms: Firms providing computer setup, software installation, and everyday technical support.
- Computer installation specialists: Specialists setting up personal computers and installing software across organisations.
- Disaster recovery providers: Firms helping organisations recover computer systems and data after failures.
Meydan Free Zone offers 100% foreign ownership, zero percent corporate tax on qualifying income, full profit repatriation, and a fully digital licensing process, providing a regulated and cost-efficient base from which to operate an IT and computer services business handling the everyday technical work organisations rely on.
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6209.00 - Other Information Technology & Computer Service Activities
Under this activity, you are licensed to carry out other information technology and computer service activities which are not classified elsewhere. It is the practical, hands-on technical work that supports computers and software but does not fall under programming, consultancy, or data processing.
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There are clear boundaries on this activity. It sits alongside the other computer service activities and is defined partly by what it is not. Computer programming, computer consultancy, and computer facilities management each fall under their own activities, as do data processing and hosting, and the installation of mainframe and similar computers.
This activity is the remaining hands-on technical work, computer setup, software installation, and disaster recovery, that those other classifications do not cover.
The line is precise. If your business sets up computers, installs software, or recovers systems after failure, you are in. If you write software, design or manage systems, or run data processing and hosting, you are not.
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Third-Party Approval: No third-party approval is required for this business activity.
Anti-Money Laundering Compliance: This business activity is exempt from AML compliance requirements.
Citations
¹ Mordor Intelligence. UAE IT Services Market. Mordor Intelligence, 2025.
² Mordor Intelligence. UAE Data Center Market. Mordor Intelligence, 2026.
