IT Support Tampa: What 308 Providers Show

Tampa, Florida is home to 308 IT service providers in the current directory count, placing it among the more active metro markets tracked across all 50 states. Of those Tampa-based firms, 140 carry a published Google rating, and the median rating among them stands at 4.90. That is slightly below the national median rating of 5.00, which is calculated across 20,654 providers nationwide that carry a published rating out of a national total of 46,092 IT service providers.

Staffing in Tampa also runs a bit higher than the national norm. The median employee count for Tampa providers is 12.5, compared to a national median of 9 employees across the full directory. This suggests that, on balance, the IT service providers headquartered in Tampa tend to be somewhat larger organizations than the typical firm counted nationally, though the directory does not break out which specific size bands drive that difference.

One area where Tampa stands apart from the national picture is pricing transparency. None of the 308 Tampa providers publish pricing information, compared to 358 providers nationally out of 46,092 that do. Nationally, published pricing remains uncommon overall, and Tampa's figure of zero places it at the far end of that already-small group. Anyone comparing providers using listed pricing alone will not find that signal available for Tampa-based firms in this dataset.

Tampa's presence fits into a broader national pattern. The directory currently covers 784 metros across the country, and the top five states by provider count are California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Virginia. Florida's inclusion among those top states helps explain why a metro like Tampa carries a meaningful share of providers rather than a marginal one. Florida is one of the larger state-level pools feeding into the national total of 46,092 IT service providers, and Tampa's 308 firms represent a notable slice of that state's footprint.

Rating coverage is another point worth noting for anyone sizing up the Tampa market. With 140 of 308 Tampa providers carrying a published rating, slightly less than half of the local pool has a visible rating signal at all. Nationally, 20,654 of 46,092 providers carry a rating, a similar but not identical proportion. This means that whether looking at Tampa specifically or the country as a whole, a sizable share of IT service providers in the directory have no rating data attached, and conclusions drawn purely from rated firms should account for that gap.

Activity across the directory also continues to move. In the last 30 days, 12,105 signals were recorded across the national dataset, a figure that reflects ongoing updates, additions, and changes tracked across the full 46,092-provider base. That level of movement underscores that directory counts, including Tampa's 308, are not static snapshots but numbers that shift as new data comes in.

Taken together, the numbers describe a Tampa market of 308 IT service providers that skews slightly larger in median staff size than the national median of 9 employees, shows a median rating of 4.90 against a national median of 5.00, and currently has no providers publishing pricing compared to 358 nationally. These figures describe where things stand this morning and do not indicate direction or cause, only the composition of what has been published in Tampa and across the broader 46,092-provider, 50-state dataset.