Hosting & PaaS Used by UK Advanced Manufacturing Companies: Market Share (2026)

Detected Hosting & PaaS market share across 3,562 of 50,406 trading UK advanced manufacturing companies, led by SiteGround at 23.4%.

Among 50,406 trading UK advanced manufacturing companies, 3,562 have a detectable Hosting & PaaS system. SiteGround leads the detected market at 23.4% (835), ahead of WP Engine at 12.9% (459), Plesk at 10.7% (382), and Amazon Web Services at 10.5% (375).

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SiteGround also leads each headcount band: Under 10 employees at 21.7% of 2,139 companies, 10–50 employees at 26.8% of 1,228, and Over 50 employees at 21.0% of 195. That suggests the category is not split cleanly between small-firm hosting tools and larger-firm cloud platforms.

The next tier is fragmented. Hostinger has 7.7% (273), Amazon S3 6.9% (246), Cloudways 5.8% (206), and GoDaddy 4.7% (167), while 27 further systems cover 926 companies between them.

3,562

advanced manufacturing with detected Hosting & PaaS

Of 50,406 UK advanced manufacturing

7.1%

Detection rate

2026

35

Systems detected

In this category

23.4%

Leader share

SiteGround

UK Advanced Manufacturing Hosting & PaaS market share

Other (27 systems)

Share of the 3,562 UK Advanced Manufacturing with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

Hosting & PaaS compared

SystemUK Advanced ManufacturingShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
SiteGround83523.4%87.4%8-employee manufacturers, 23.4% share
WP Engine45912.9%611.1%6-employee manufacturers, 12.9% share
Plesk38210.7%77.1%7-employee manufacturers, 10.7% share
Amazon Web Services37510.5%711.7%7-employee manufacturers, 10.5% share
Hostinger2737.7%711.4%7-employee manufacturers, 7.7% share
Amazon S32466.9%810.6%8-employee manufacturers, 6.9% share
Cloudways2065.8%73.9%7-employee manufacturers, 5.8% share
GoDaddy1674.7%711.4%7-employee manufacturers, 4.7% share
Microsoft Azure1674.7%57.8%5-employee manufacturers, 4.7% share
20i StackCP1564.4%103.2%10-employee manufacturers, 4.4% share
Kinsta1083%49.3%4-employee manufacturers, 3.0% share
Vercel842.4%413.1%4-employee manufacturers, 2.4% share
Flywheel722%713.9%7-employee manufacturers, 2.0% share
cPanel671.9%710.4%7-employee manufacturers, 1.9% share
IONOS601.7%61.7%6-employee manufacturers, 1.7% share
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Netlify441.2%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
wp.cloud260.7%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Platform.sh240.7%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
One.com240.7%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Prositehosting230.6%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Firebase200.6%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
tsoHost190.5%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Acquia Cloud Platform190.5%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Fasthosts180.5%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Pantheon180.5%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
34SP.com140.4%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Nimbus Hosting120.3%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Hetzner100.3%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Oracle Cloud80.2%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Google Cloud Storage70.2%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
GitHub Pages40.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
DigitalOcean30.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Render30.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
F5 Distributed Cloud Services10%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →

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

Market leader by size

The leading Hosting & PaaS system shifts with company size: among UK Advanced Manufacturing with under 10 employees, SiteGround leads at 21.7% of the 2,139 with a detectable system; among UK Advanced Manufacturing with 10–50 employees, SiteGround leads at 26.8% of the 1,228 with a detectable system; and among UK Advanced Manufacturing with over 50 employees, SiteGround leads at 21% of the 195 with a detectable system.

Under 10 employees

SiteGround

21.7% of band

Under 10 employees is the largest detected band, with 2,139 companies. SiteGround leads at 21.7%, with the remainder spread across managed hosting, control panel, cloud storage, and PaaS systems.

10–50 employees

SiteGround

26.8% of band

10–50 employees includes 1,228 companies and has the highest SiteGround share, at 26.8%. WP Engine, Plesk, Amazon Web Services, and the longer tail still account for much of the band.

Over 50 employees

SiteGround

21% of band

Over 50 employees is a smaller detected band, with 195 companies. SiteGround leads at 21.0%, so larger advanced manufacturing firms still show mixed use rather than a single enterprise-standard pattern.

How Hosting & PaaS 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 Hosting & PaaS among UK advanced manufacturing companies?
SiteGround is the most-detected Hosting & PaaS among UK advanced manufacturing companies, with 23.4% share (835 of 3,562 companies with a detectable system), ahead of WP Engine (12.9%) and Plesk (10.7%).
How many UK advanced manufacturing companies have a detectable Hosting & PaaS?
3,562 of 50,406 actively-trading UK advanced manufacturing companies (7.1%) have a Hosting & PaaS 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 Hosting & PaaS?
A Hosting & PaaS system provides the infrastructure or managed platform used to host websites, web applications, storage, and related services. For UK advanced manufacturing companies, it supports public sites, portals, application back ends, and related web services without requiring every firm to operate its own servers.
How is Hosting & PaaS 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, SiteGround or WP Engine?
SiteGround: 835 detected companies versus 459 for WP Engine, of the 3,562 UK advanced manufacturing companies with a detectable Hosting & PaaS.
What is the best Hosting & PaaS for UK advanced manufacturing companies?
This page publishes usage counts rather than recommendations, so it does not rank a single best Hosting & PaaS system. Across the detected market, SiteGround has 23.4% (835), WP Engine 12.9% (459), Plesk 10.7% (382), and Amazon Web Services 10.5% (375). By headcount, SiteGround leads Under 10 employees at 21.7% of 2,139 companies, 10–50 employees at 26.8% of 1,228, and Over 50 employees at 21.0% of 195.

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