CMS Used by UK Education: Market Share (2026)
Detected CMS market share across 6,938 UK education companies, with WordPress holding the largest share at 66.3%.
Among 62,057 trading UK Education companies, 6,938 have a detectable CMS. WordPress accounts for 66.3% (4,597 companies), giving it a larger footprint than any other named system.
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The next tier is mostly hosted website builders: Wix has 12.5% (864 companies), Squarespace 6.4% (441 companies), and GoDaddy Website Builder 3.5% (240 companies). Duda has 2.9% (200 companies), Cornerstone 2.3% (157 companies), Webflow 2.2% (150 companies), and Microsoft SharePoint 2.0% (140 companies).
Size does not change the top of the table: WordPress has the largest share in Under 10 employees at 68.6% of 3,544 companies, 10–50 employees at 63.4% of 3,001 companies, and Over 50 employees at 66.4% of 393 companies. The tail is long by system count, with 29 further systems covering 407 companies among 37 systems detected.
6,938
Education with detected CMS
Of 62,057 UK Education
11.2%
Detection rate
2026
37
Systems detected
In this category
66.3%
Leader share
WordPress
UK Education CMS market share
Share of the 6,938 UK Education with a detectable system. As of June 2026.
CMS compared
| System | UK Education | Share | Median headcount | London share | Typical profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress | 4,597 | 66.3% | 9 | 22.3% | 9-employee median, majority share |
| Wix | 864 | 12.5% | 10 | 23.1% | 10-employee median, 12.5% share |
| Squarespace | 441 | 6.4% | 8 | 27.4% | 8-employee median, 6.4% share |
| GoDaddy Website Builder | 240 | 3.5% | 10 | 27.5% | 10-employee median, 3.5% share |
| Duda | 200 | 2.9% | 15 | 20% | 15-employee median, 2.9% share |
| Cornerstone | 157 | 2.3% | 13 | 18.5% | 13-employee median, 2.3% share |
| Webflow | 150 | 2.2% | 8 | 30.7% | 8-employee median, 2.2% share |
| Microsoft SharePoint | 140 | 2% | 11 | 20% | 11-employee median, 2.0% share |
| Drupal | 115 | 1.7% | 6 | 26.1% | 6-employee median, 1.7% share |
| Weebly | 72 | 1% | 11 | 9.7% | 11-employee median, 1.0% share |
| Joomla | 70 | 1% | 10 | 18.6% | 10-employee median, 1.0% share |
| Craft CMS | 35 | 0.5% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| It'seeze | 24 | 0.3% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| October CMS | 17 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Storyblok | 16 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Contentful | 14 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Concrete CMS | 14 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Sanity | 14 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Statamic | 13 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Adobe Experience Manager | 11 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Umbraco | 10 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| DNN | 9 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Business Catalyst | 7 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| FlipBuilder | 6 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| ExpressionEngine | 6 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Prismic | 5 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| ProcessWire | 5 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Silverstripe | 5 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Odoo | 4 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Sitecore | 4 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| TYPO3 CMS | 4 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| DatoCMS | 4 | 0.1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Ghost | 3 | 0% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Kentico CMS | 2 | 0% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Tridion | 2 | 0% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Optimizely Content Management | 2 | 0% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| MODX | 1 | 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
68.6% of band
The under-10 band contains 3,544 companies, and WordPress has the largest share at 68.6%. Smaller education companies form most of this segment; Wix and Squarespace compete for part of the remainder.
10–50 employees
63.4% of band
The 10–50 employee band contains 3,001 companies, with WordPress at 63.4%. This mid-sized band still centres on WordPress, while hosted builders and other CMS options divide the non-WordPress share.
Over 50 employees
66.4% of band
The over-50 band is smaller, at 393 companies, and WordPress still has the largest share at 66.4%. Higher-headcount education organisations remain spread across the same named systems and the long tail after WordPress.
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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