Form builders Used by UK advanced manufacturing: Market Share (2026)

Detected form builder usage across 4,599 of 50,139 trading UK advanced manufacturing companies, with Contact Form 7 leading at 64.2%.

Among 50,139 trading UK advanced manufacturing companies, 4,599 have a detectable form builder. The category is concentrated: Contact Form 7 accounts for 64.2% (2,952 companies), while Gravity Forms has 25.3% (1,162).

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Contact Form 7 has the largest share in every employee band: 65.1% of 2,695 users under 10 employees, 63.7% of 1,655 users with 10–50 employees, and 57.4% of 249 users over 50 employees. Gravity Forms is the main second system overall, with Ninja Forms at 5.0% (228), WPForms at 3.4% (156), and Jotform at 2.2% (99).

The long tail is thin but not empty. 15 systems are detected in total; 123FormBuilder covers 0.9% (43), Cognito Forms 0.5% (22), Smartsheet 0.4% (18), and 7 further systems cover 49 companies.

4,599

advanced manufacturing with detected Form builders

Of 50,139 UK advanced manufacturing

9.2%

Detection rate

2026

15

Systems detected

In this category

64.2%

Leader share

Contact Form 7

UK advanced manufacturing Form builders market share

Smartsheet
Other (7 systems)

Share of the 4,599 UK advanced manufacturing with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

Form builders compared

SystemUK advanced manufacturingShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
Contact Form 72,95264.2%78%Sub-10 manufacturers, broadest share
Gravity Forms1,16225.3%77.4%Sub-10 manufacturers, second-largest share
Ninja Forms2285%67.9%Sub-10 manufacturers, smaller share
WPForms1563.4%710.9%Sub-10 manufacturers, higher London share
Jotform992.2%78.1%Sub-10 manufacturers, niche adoption
123FormBuilder430.9%View these companies in Firmbase →
Cognito Forms220.5%View these companies in Firmbase →
Smartsheet180.4%View these companies in Firmbase →
Google Forms160.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Powerful Form90.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Caldera Forms90.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
FormSubmit80.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Paperform70.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Formstack70.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Basin40.1%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

Contact Form 7

65.1% of band

Among 2,695 form-builder users under 10 employees, Contact Form 7 has the largest share at 65.1%. This band is the biggest part of the detected market and is mainly served by lighter website form tools.

10–50 employees

Contact Form 7

63.7% of band

Among 1,655 form-builder users with 10–50 employees, Contact Form 7 remains first with 63.7%. Gravity Forms is the principal alternative in a band that still looks close to the overall market split.

Over 50 employees

Contact Form 7

57.4% of band

Among 249 form-builder users over 50 employees, Contact Form 7 still ranks first, though its share falls to 57.4%. Larger manufacturers appear somewhat more distributed across the rest of the category.

How Form builders 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 Form builders among UK advanced manufacturing companies?
Contact Form 7 is the most-detected Form builders among UK advanced manufacturing companies, with 64.2% share (2,952 of 4,599 companies with a detectable system), ahead of Gravity Forms (25.3%) and Ninja Forms (5%).
How many UK advanced manufacturing companies have a detectable Form builders?
4,599 of 50,139 actively-trading UK advanced manufacturing companies (9.2%) have a Form builders 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 Form builders?
A form builder is software used to create website forms, route submissions and collect enquiries, quote requests, support tickets or downloads without hand-coding each form. For UK advanced manufacturing companies, the job is usually to turn a technical website into a capture point for sales, service and supplier contact workflows.
How is Form builders 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, Contact Form 7 or Gravity Forms?
Contact Form 7: 2,952 detected companies versus 1,162 for Gravity Forms, of the 4,599 UK advanced manufacturing companies with a detectable Form builders.
What is the best Form builders for UK advanced manufacturing companies?
This directory reports observed usage rather than recommendations, so the best form builder depends on company size, website stack and internal form needs. In the detected market, Contact Form 7 has the largest share in all three employee bands: 65.1% among 2,695 under 10 employees, 63.7% among 1,655 with 10–50 employees, and 57.4% among 249 over 50 employees. Across all 4,599 companies with a detectable form builder, Contact Form 7 accounts for 64.2% (2,952), followed by Gravity Forms at 25.3% (1,162).

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