In its report, “The State of IT Outsourcing: The Elastic Workforce,” staffing and managed services consultancy Bluewolf raked through responses from more than 200 enterprise IT leaders on their outsourcing plans, which includes a mix of offshoring IT, consultant hiring, and cloud and as-a-service.

Thirty-two percent of those surveyed pegged the outsourcing portion of their overall IT budgets as going up in the next year, and only 9 percent saw it decreasing, according to the survey.