Hosting & PaaS Used by UK Fashion Retail Companies: Market Share (2026)

Detected Hosting & PaaS market share is mapped across 1,590 UK fashion retail companies, with Amazon Web Services holding the largest detected share at 24.7%.

Around 119,795 UK fashion retail companies are actively trading, with 1,590 showing a detectable Hosting & PaaS system. The visible market is spread across 35 systems, led by Amazon Web Services at 24.7% (392), SiteGround at 17.7% (281) and Amazon S3 at 16.2% (258).

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Amazon Web Services leads all three employee bands: 23.3% across 1,079 companies under 10 employees, 26.8% across 462 companies with 10–50 employees, and 34.7% across 49 companies over 50 employees. Larger fashion retailers therefore appear somewhat more concentrated around the same system, although the sample in the over-50 band is small.

The long tail remains sizeable. Plesk has 8.9% (141), Hostinger 8.2% (130), Microsoft Azure 7.4% (117), WP Engine 6.9% (109) and GoDaddy 4.4% (70), while 27 further systems cover 376 companies between them.

1,590

fashion retail with detected Hosting & PaaS

Of 119,795 UK fashion retail

1.3%

Detection rate

2026

35

Systems detected

In this category

24.7%

Leader share

Amazon Web Services

UK Fashion Retail Hosting & PaaS market share

Other (27 systems)

Share of the 1,590 UK Fashion Retail with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

Hosting & PaaS compared

SystemUK Fashion RetailShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
Amazon Web Services39224.7%724.2%Small retailers, median headcount 7
SiteGround28117.7%721.7%Small retailers, median headcount 7
Amazon S325816.2%617.8%Micro retailers, median headcount 6
Plesk1418.9%617%Micro retailers, median headcount 6
Hostinger1308.2%626.9%Micro retailers, median headcount 6
Microsoft Azure1177.4%521.4%Micro retailers, median headcount 5
WP Engine1096.9%729.4%Small retailers, median headcount 7
GoDaddy704.4%530%Micro retailers, median headcount 5
Cloudways684.3%85.9%Small retailers, median headcount 8
Vercel674.2%537.3%Micro retailers, median headcount 5
20i StackCP513.2%713.7%Small retailers, median headcount 7
Kinsta473%View these companies in Firmbase →
Netlify261.6%View these companies in Firmbase →
Google Cloud Storage221.4%View these companies in Firmbase →
Bluehost211.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Platform.sh211.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
IONOS191.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Flywheel130.8%View these companies in Firmbase →
Firebase130.8%View these companies in Firmbase →
cPanel110.7%View these companies in Firmbase →
wp.cloud80.5%View these companies in Firmbase →
Pantheon80.5%View these companies in Firmbase →
Prositehosting70.4%View these companies in Firmbase →
Oracle Cloud70.4%View these companies in Firmbase →
One.com50.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Hetzner40.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
F5 Distributed Cloud Services30.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Nimbus Hosting30.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Acquia Cloud Platform30.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Fasthosts30.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
GitHub Pages20.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
34SP.com20.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
WordPress VIP10.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
tsoHost10.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
DigitalOcean10.1%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

The leading Hosting & PaaS system shifts with company size: among UK Fashion Retail with under 10 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 23.3% of the 1,079 with a detectable system; among UK Fashion Retail with 10–50 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 26.8% of the 462 with a detectable system; and among UK Fashion Retail with over 50 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 34.7% of the 49 with a detectable system.

Under 10 employees

Amazon Web Services

23.3% of band

This is the largest band, with 1,079 companies and Amazon Web Services ahead on 23.3%. The rest of the band is fragmented across the wider set of 35 Hosting & PaaS systems.

10–50 employees

Amazon Web Services

26.8% of band

The 10–50 employees band contains 462 companies, with Amazon Web Services on 26.8%. Competition remains spread across the same named systems seen in the wider market, including SiteGround, Amazon S3, Plesk, Hostinger, Microsoft Azure, WP Engine and GoDaddy.

Over 50 employees

Amazon Web Services

34.7% of band

The over-50 band is much smaller, at 49 companies, and Amazon Web Services has a higher share here at 34.7%. That points to more concentration among larger fashion retailers than in the sub-10 employee band.

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 fashion retail companies?
Amazon Web Services is the most-detected Hosting & PaaS among UK fashion retail companies, with 24.7% share (392 of 1,590 companies with a detectable system), ahead of SiteGround (17.7%) and Amazon S3 (16.2%).
How many UK fashion retail companies have a detectable Hosting & PaaS?
1,590 of 119,795 actively-trading UK fashion retail companies (1.3%) 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 server, storage, runtime and deployment layer that keeps an online fashion retail site and its supporting services available. For UK fashion retail companies, it usually sits beneath ecommerce, content, product imagery, order workflows and internal tooling rather than acting as the shopfront itself.
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 fashion retail companies, Amazon Web Services or SiteGround?
Amazon Web Services: 392 detected companies versus 281 for SiteGround, of the 1,590 UK fashion retail companies with a detectable Hosting & PaaS.
What is the best Hosting & PaaS for UK fashion retail companies?
This page reports observed usage rather than recommendations, so “best” depends on the retailer’s stack, operating model and technical requirements. Amazon Web Services leads every employee band shown here: Under 10 employees has 1,079 companies and a 23.3% share for Amazon Web Services; 10–50 employees has 462 companies and a 26.8% share; Over 50 employees has 49 companies and a 34.7% share.

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