CMS Used by UK advanced manufacturing: Market Share (2026)
CMS usage is detected at 12,392 UK advanced manufacturing companies, with WordPress leading on 73.7% of detected companies (9,132).
Among 50,133 trading UK advanced manufacturing companies, 12,392 have a detectable CMS. WordPress accounts for 73.7% (9,132) of those sites, with Wix on 8.7% (1,076) and Squarespace on 4.2% (521).
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Duda (2.4%, 302) and GoDaddy Website Builder (2.3%, 284) sit just above Cornerstone (1.8%, 221), Webflow (1.5%, 191) and Joomla (1.2%, 152). The long tail contains 27 further systems covering 702 companies, so the category is broad but concentrated among a small number of systems.
WordPress has the largest share in every employee band: 72.9% of 7,511 companies under 10 employees, 74.2% of 4,313 in the 10–50 employee band, and 79.6% of 568 over 50 employees. CMS choice appears to vary only modestly by headcount among these manufacturers.
12,392
advanced manufacturing with detected CMS
Of 50,133 UK advanced manufacturing
24.7%
Detection rate
2026
35
Systems detected
In this category
73.7%
Leader share
WordPress
UK advanced manufacturing CMS market share
Share of the 12,392 UK advanced manufacturing with a detectable system. As of June 2026.
CMS compared
| System | UK advanced manufacturing | Share | Median headcount | London share | Typical profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress | 9,132 | 73.7% | 7 | 7.3% | Median headcount 7, 73.7% share |
| Wix | 1,076 | 8.7% | 7 | 7.1% | Median headcount 7, 8.7% share |
| Squarespace | 521 | 4.2% | 7 | 13.1% | Median headcount 7, 4.2% share |
| Duda | 302 | 2.4% | 7 | 5.6% | Median headcount 7, 2.4% share |
| GoDaddy Website Builder | 284 | 2.3% | 7 | 9.2% | Median headcount 7, 2.3% share |
| Cornerstone | 221 | 1.8% | 7 | 8.6% | Median headcount 7, 1.8% share |
| Webflow | 191 | 1.5% | 6 | 14.7% | Median headcount 6, 1.5% share |
| Joomla | 152 | 1.2% | 7 | 9.9% | Median headcount 7, 1.2% share |
| Drupal | 143 | 1.2% | 6 | 11.2% | Median headcount 6, 1.2% share |
| Craft CMS | 114 | 0.9% | 7 | 7.9% | Median headcount 7, 0.9% share |
| TYPO3 CMS | 82 | 0.7% | 4 | 11% | Median headcount 4, 0.7% share |
| Microsoft SharePoint | 74 | 0.6% | 8 | 14.9% | Median headcount 8, 0.6% share |
| Weebly | 58 | 0.5% | 7 | 5.2% | Median headcount 7, 0.5% share |
| Concrete CMS | 44 | 0.4% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| It'seeze | 43 | 0.3% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Odoo | 35 | 0.3% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Adobe Experience Manager | 27 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Statamic | 24 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| ExpressionEngine | 22 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Sanity | 21 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Silverstripe | 20 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| ProcessWire | 17 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Contentful | 16 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| FlipBuilder | 16 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Business Catalyst | 14 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Storyblok | 13 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| October CMS | 12 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Kentico CMS | 12 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Sitecore | 11 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| DNN | 11 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Umbraco | 8 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Prismic | 7 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| MODX | 7 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Optimizely Content Management | 3 | 0% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| DatoCMS | 3 | 0% | — | — | 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
72.9% of band
The under-10 employee band contains 7,511 companies with a detectable CMS, mostly smaller manufacturers rather than large groups. WordPress has 72.9% share here, leaving the remaining usage to hosted builders and the wider CMS tail.
10–50 employees
74.2% of band
The 10–50 employee band contains 4,313 companies with a detectable CMS. WordPress has 74.2% share, with page-builder and general CMS systems competing for the rest.
Over 50 employees
79.6% of band
Only 568 companies sit in the over-50 employee band, so larger manufacturers form a much smaller CMS cohort. WordPress has 79.6% share, higher than in the two smaller bands.
How CMS usage is detected
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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