CDN Used by UK advanced manufacturing: Market Share (2026)

Detected CDN use across 4,285 of 50,001 trading UK advanced manufacturing companies, with Cloudflare at 93.3% of detections.

Among 50,001 trading UK advanced manufacturing companies, 4,285 have a detectable CDN and 11 systems appear. Cloudflare accounts for 93.3% of those detections, covering 4,000 companies.

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Amazon S3 is the next largest named system at 5.7% and 244 companies, followed by Amazon CloudFront at 2.8% and 122 companies. The three profiled systems all skew towards small employers, with median headcounts of 7, 8 and 6 respectively.

Bunny, ShortPixel and Akamai each sit at around 1.0% of detected companies, while Fastly has 0.6% and Section.io has 0.3%. Three further systems cover 1 company between them, so the long tail is present but very thin.

4,283

advanced manufacturing with detected CDN

Of 50,135 UK advanced manufacturing

8.5%

Detection rate

2026

11

Systems detected

In this category

93.3%

Leader share

Cloudflare

UK advanced manufacturing CDN market share

Section.io
Other (3 systems)

Share of the 4,283 UK advanced manufacturing with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

CDN compared

SystemUK advanced manufacturingShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
Cloudflare3,99793.3%78.6%Micro manufacturers; 7-employee median
Amazon S32445.7%810.7%Micro manufacturers; 8-employee median
Amazon CloudFront1222.8%618%Micro manufacturers; 6-employee median
Bunny491.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
ShortPixel431%View these companies in Firmbase →
Akamai431%View these companies in Firmbase →
Fastly270.6%View these companies in Firmbase →
Section.io120.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Filestack60.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
Uploadcare50.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
ImageEngine10%View these companies in Firmbase →

Systems detected below the page threshold appear with counts only; their full lists are available in the Firmbase app.

Market leader by size

Under 10 employees

Cloudflare

93.6% of band

Under 10 employees is the largest detected band, with 2,580 companies. Cloudflare accounts for 93.6%, leaving a small share for Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront and the remaining systems.

10–50 employees

Cloudflare

93.2% of band

The 10–50 employees band contains 1,437 companies with a detectable CDN. Cloudflare has 93.1%, with the rest of the market split across the smaller named systems.

Over 50 employees

Cloudflare

91.8% of band

Over 50 employees covers 268 companies, and Cloudflare still accounts for 91.8%. Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront are the main named alternatives overall, but no other system approaches Cloudflare’s share.

How CDN usage is detected

Methodology

Company data

Detected companies are joined to UK Companies House records and XBRL accounts data. Revenue and headcount figures come from the most recent filed accounts; where the company has not filed, values are estimated using a model trained on filed history and peer benchmarks and are labelled as estimates.

Detection

Firmbase crawls the public website of actively-trading UK companies and fingerprints the technologies present: tracking scripts, embedded forms, chat widgets, CMS markers and similar signatures. A company is included in this list when one or more of the technology's signatures are found on its site; closely-related variants of the same product are grouped under one name. Detection covers what is visible on the public web — a company using the technology purely internally, with no website footprint, will not appear. Counts are therefore a conservative floor, not a ceiling.

Freshness

Websites are re-crawled on a rolling basis and the underlying company data is refreshed from Companies House continuously; filings appear within days of submission. The list and its statistics are regenerated when the detected cohort moves meaningfully. You can see the last-updated timestamp near the top of the page.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the most-used CDN among UK advanced manufacturing companies?
Cloudflare is the most-detected CDN among UK advanced manufacturing companies, with 93.3% share (3,997 of 4,283 companies with a detectable system), ahead of Amazon S3 (5.7%) and Amazon CloudFront (2.8%).
How many UK advanced manufacturing companies have a detectable CDN?
4,283 of 50,135 actively-trading UK advanced manufacturing companies (8.5%) have a CDN detectable from their public website. The remainder either run systems with no public web footprint or none at all, so detected share figures are a conservative floor.
What is a CDN?
A CDN caches and delivers website files, images, downloads and other web assets from distributed servers, so pages and digital catalogues load more consistently for users. For UK advanced manufacturing companies, it usually sits between the company website or storage layer and visitors, handling delivery, caching and some traffic-management functions.
How is CDN usage detected?
Firmbase crawls the public website of every actively-trading company in this scope and fingerprints the technologies present — scripts, widgets, booking and checkout flows. A company is attributed to a system when that system's signatures are found; systems with no public web footprint are not attributable, which is why every share figure on this page means share of companies with a detectable system.
Which has more UK advanced manufacturing companies, Cloudflare or Amazon S3?
Cloudflare: 3,997 detected companies versus 244 for Amazon S3, of the 4,283 UK advanced manufacturing companies with a detectable CDN.
What is the best CDN for UK advanced manufacturing companies?
This page reports observed usage rather than recommendations, so it does not identify a single best CDN. Across 4,285 UK advanced manufacturing companies with a detectable CDN, Cloudflare has 93.3% (4,000), ahead of Amazon S3 at 5.7% (244) and Amazon CloudFront at 2.8% (122). By employee band, Cloudflare has the largest share in Under 10 employees at 93.6% of 2,580 companies, 10–50 employees at 93.1% of 1,437 companies, and Over 50 employees at 91.8% of 268 companies.

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