UK SIC 62.13—Software development of general-purpose applications, and other software development

Where 62.13 sits

1. K Telecommunication, computer programming, consulting, computing infrastructure and other information service activities
2. 62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities
3. 62.1 Computer programming activities
4. 62.13 Software development of general-purpose applications, and other software development

Contains 2 narrower codes

• 62.131 Software development of general-purpose ai tools not specialised to industry or product applications
• 62.139 Software development of general-purpose applications, and other software development n.e.c.

What 62.13 includes

• Designing, writing, modifying, testing and supporting software with broad general-purpose applications, that is developed for business use across sectors and industries and is not specialised to one sector or industry application, and other software development not classified under 62.11 and 62.12
• Software applications with wide use cases, such as productivity software and database software
• Software applications that are general purpose and designed for use across software development
• Systems software and related software, for example operating systems
• Machine learning applications, artificial intelligence (ai) / machine vision and large language models (llms)
• Cybersecurity software development for general purpose applications This class includes customising software so that it is functional within a clients' information system environment

What 62.13 excludes

• Development of computer games, see 62.11
• E-commerce software applications, see 62.12/3
• Enterprise management software, and other software applications relating to business services, see 62.12/6

62.13 in other systems