As restructuring in SES and DX talent accelerates, large-scale deals are following one after another, including the TOBs and delistings of 富士ソフト and テクノプロ and the acquisition of SCSK. This article fully reveals 21 companies set to survive in the second half of 2026.
The landscape of Japan's IT services industry has been dramatically redrawn over the past year and a half. In 2025, 富士ソフト disappeared from the TSE Prime Market following a TOB by a US investment fund. In December, テクノプロ・ホールディングス was delisted following an acquisition by Blackstone, in what became Blackstone's largest-ever investment in a Japanese company. In addition, the TOB for SCSK succeeded in December 2025, bringing the total acquisition value to approximately ¥880 billion. The process of making NTT DATA Group a wholly owned subsidiary is also under way, marking a period in which SIers with market capitalizations of this scale are disappearing from the market one after another.
In August 2026, デジタルハーツホールディングス, a leading game-debugging company, decided to go private through an MBO led by its founding chairman. Behind this restructuring is the fact that, although people are the key assets in IT services, listed companies find it difficult to commit to investment in human resources, while demand remains strong. There is also a view that demand for projects involving simple tasks will shrink as generative AI becomes more widespread, while demand for upstream processes and design-stage work will increase.
This article will select 21 TSE-listed IT services, technical staffing and DX support companies considered likely to survive this wave, and examine their business structures, financial figures and risks in depth. The selection ranges from large-scale platforms to mid-sized and small growth companies, introducing a spread of businesses positioned to ride the wave of structural change.