Ireland and the United Kingdom enterprise technology-change research

PT-2026-150 · dossier edition · 31 July 2026

PlatformTrace

Enterprise platform change across Ireland and the United Kingdom.

internal developer platform adoption · underway

HM Courts & Tribunals Service adopts an Azure platform-engineering model

Kainos and HMCTS built an Azure-based internal developer platform with reusable tooling and self-service controls for an estimated 700 developers.

Organisation
HM Courts & Tribunals Service
Predecessor
developer and platform-operations workflows relied on less standardised tooling, infrastructure and support paths
Destination
an Azure platform-as-product serving an estimated 700 developers with APIs, golden paths, self-service infrastructure, CI/CD, security scanning, observability and governed AI access
Workload
HMCTS Azure developer platform and Azure AI Foundry
Stage
underway
Evidence boundary: This is a bounded developer-platform and service-desk modernisation inside HMCTS, not completion of the wider ten-year justice transformation programme.

Verified platform change

Kainos and HMCTS built an Azure-based internal developer platform with reusable tooling and self-service controls for an estimated 700 developers.

Transition

From: developer and platform-operations workflows relied on less standardised tooling, infrastructure and support paths

To: an Azure platform-as-product serving an estimated 700 developers with APIs, golden paths, self-service infrastructure, CI/CD, security scanning, observability and governed AI access

Known unknowns

This is a bounded developer-platform and service-desk modernisation inside HMCTS, not completion of the wider ten-year justice transformation programme.

Official sources

  1. HMCTS builds an Azure platform-engineering model — 2025-10-06