Hosting & PaaS Used by UK Creative Design Companies: Market Share (2026)
Detected Hosting & PaaS usage across 1,073 of 25,055 trading UK creative design companies, with WP Engine on 20.1% ahead of SiteGround at 18.1%.
Among 25,055 trading UK creative design companies, 1,073 have a detectable Hosting & PaaS system. WP Engine leads the detected market at 20.1% (216), followed by SiteGround at 18.1% (194), Amazon Web Services at 12.3% (132) and Vercel at 9.6% (103).
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Company size changes the order. SiteGround leads among firms with Under 10 employees, WP Engine leads the 10–50 employees band, and Amazon Web Services leads the small Over 50 employees cohort.
The market is not only a contest between the largest named systems. Amazon S3 accounts for 8.6% (92), Hostinger 6.5% (70), Netlify 6.4% (69) and Plesk 5.8% (62), while 24 further systems cover 259 companies.
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1,073
creative design with detected Hosting & PaaS
Of 25,055 UK creative design
4.3%
Detection rate
2026
32
Systems detected
In this category
20.1%
Leader share
WP Engine
UK Creative Design Hosting & PaaS market share
Share of the 1,073 UK Creative Design with a detectable system. As of June 2026.
Hosting & PaaS compared
| System | UK Creative Design | Share | Median headcount | London share | Typical profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WP Engine | 216 | 20.1% | 8 | 30.1% | Small agencies, largest detected share |
| SiteGround | 194 | 18.1% | 6 | 27.8% | Micro studios, broad small-company use |
| Amazon Web Services | 132 | 12.3% | 7 | 32.6% | Small agencies, cloud infrastructure users |
| Vercel | 103 | 9.6% | 9 | 41.7% | London-skewed, developer-led studios |
| Amazon S3 | 92 | 8.6% | 6 | 34.8% | Small teams, storage-linked hosting |
| Hostinger | 70 | 6.5% | 6 | 27.1% | Micro studios, low-headcount users |
| Netlify | 69 | 6.4% | 6 | 40.6% | London-skewed, developer-led teams |
| Plesk | 62 | 5.8% | 6 | 16.1% | Micro studios, less London-weighted |
| Cloudways | 56 | 5.2% | 9 | 26.8% | Small agencies, managed cloud users |
| Kinsta | 56 | 5.2% | 8 | 32.1% | Small agencies, managed hosting users |
| GoDaddy | 35 | 3.3% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| Flywheel | 31 | 2.9% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| Microsoft Azure | 23 | 2.1% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| Firebase | 11 | 1% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| Nimbus Hosting | 10 | 0.9% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| Pantheon | 10 | 0.9% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| Bluehost | 10 | 0.9% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| Google Cloud Storage | 8 | 0.7% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| 20i StackCP | 8 | 0.7% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| wp.cloud | 7 | 0.7% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| cPanel | 6 | 0.6% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| Platform.sh | 5 | 0.5% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| Fasthosts | 5 | 0.5% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| DigitalOcean | 5 | 0.5% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| One.com | 5 | 0.5% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| GitHub Pages | 2 | 0.2% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| IONOS | 2 | 0.2% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| tsoHost | 2 | 0.2% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| Acquia Cloud Platform | 1 | 0.1% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| WordPress VIP | 1 | 0.1% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| Hetzner | 1 | 0.1% | — | — | Get these companies as a spreadsheet → |
| 34SP.com | 1 | 0.1% | — | — | Get 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 Creative Design with under 10 employees, SiteGround leads at 18.9% of the 703 with a detectable system; among UK Creative Design with 10–50 employees, WP Engine leads at 23.5% of the 344 with a detectable system; and among UK Creative Design with over 50 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 30.8% of the 26 with a detectable system.
Under 10 employees
18.9% of band
SiteGround leads this 703-company band with 18.9% share, where small creative studios and owner-managed agencies appear to favour mainstream managed hosting and lower-overhead platform choices.
10–50 employees
23.5% of band
WP Engine leads the 344-company 10–50 employees band with 23.5% share. Competition here also includes cloud and developer-oriented platforms used by agencies with larger delivery teams.
Over 50 employees
30.8% of band
Amazon Web Services leads the 26-company Over 50 employees band with 30.8% share. This band is small, but it tilts toward cloud infrastructure rather than simpler hosted-site arrangements.
How Hosting & PaaS 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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