Hosting & PaaS Used by UK Marketing Agency Companies: Market Share (2026)

Among 1,691 UK marketing agency companies with detectable Hosting & PaaS, WP Engine has the largest share at 19.8% (335 companies), ahead of SiteGround at 18.2%.

Among 56,295 trading UK marketing agency companies, 1,691 have a detectable Hosting & PaaS system, across 33 systems. WP Engine accounts for 19.8% (335), SiteGround 18.2% (308), Amazon Web Services 12.8% (217), Amazon S3 9.0% (152), Vercel 8.6% (145), Hostinger 7.1% (120), Plesk 5.7% (97) and Netlify 5.6% (95).

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Size cuts matter. SiteGround leads Under 10 employees with 18.8% of 1,123 companies, WP Engine leads the 10–50 employees band with 24.0% of 524 companies, and Amazon Web Services leads Over 50 employees with 31.8% of 44 companies.

The long tail is sizeable: 25 further systems cover 425 companies. Median headcounts among the profiled systems sit between 5 and 8 employees, so even the larger named systems are mostly visible in small agency businesses rather than enterprise-scale agency groups.

1,691

marketing agency with detected Hosting & PaaS

Of 56,295 UK marketing agency

3%

Detection rate

2026

33

Systems detected

In this category

19.8%

Leader share

WP Engine

UK Marketing Agency Hosting & PaaS market share

Other (25 systems)

Share of the 1,691 UK Marketing Agency with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

Hosting & PaaS compared

SystemUK Marketing AgencyShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
WP Engine33519.8%733.7%19.8% share, 7-employee median
SiteGround30818.2%631.8%18.2% share, 6-employee median
Amazon Web Services21712.8%735%12.8% share, 7-employee median
Amazon S31529%634.9%9.0% share, 6-employee median
Vercel1458.6%844.8%8.6% share, 8-employee median
Hostinger1207.1%635%7.1% share, 6-employee median
Plesk975.7%524.7%5.7% share, 5-employee median
Netlify955.6%637.9%5.6% share, 6-employee median
Kinsta875.1%734.5%5.1% share, 7-employee median
Cloudways814.8%727.2%4.8% share, 7-employee median
GoDaddy573.4%645.6%3.4% share, 6-employee median
Flywheel573.4%643.9%3.4% share, 6-employee median
Microsoft Azure372.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Bluehost211.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
wp.cloud211.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Firebase171%View these companies in Firmbase →
20i StackCP160.9%View these companies in Firmbase →
Nimbus Hosting160.9%View these companies in Firmbase →
Pantheon130.8%View these companies in Firmbase →
Google Cloud Storage120.7%View these companies in Firmbase →
DigitalOcean110.7%View these companies in Firmbase →
cPanel90.5%View these companies in Firmbase →
One.com70.4%View these companies in Firmbase →
Fasthosts70.4%View these companies in Firmbase →
Platform.sh70.4%View these companies in Firmbase →
Acquia Cloud Platform50.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
IONOS50.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
tsoHost30.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
34SP.com20.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
GitHub Pages20.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
WordPress VIP10.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
Hetzner10.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
Prositehosting10.1%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 Marketing Agency with under 10 employees, SiteGround leads at 18.8% of the 1,123 with a detectable system; among UK Marketing Agency with 10–50 employees, WP Engine leads at 24% of the 524 with a detectable system; and among UK Marketing Agency with over 50 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 31.8% of the 44 with a detectable system.

Under 10 employees

SiteGround

18.8% of band

Among 1,123 marketing agency companies under 10 employees with a detected system, SiteGround leads on 18.8%. This band is where lower-median systems cluster, with Plesk at a 5-employee median and several 6-employee median systems in the profiled set.

10–50 employees

WP Engine

24% of band

The 10–50 employees band covers 524 companies, with WP Engine ahead at 24.0%. Competition then runs through systems whose overall medians sit around 6–8 employees, including Amazon Web Services, Vercel, Kinsta and Cloudways.

Over 50 employees

Amazon Web Services

31.8% of band

Only 44 companies sit in the Over 50 employees band, and Amazon Web Services leads with 31.8%. The small base means share movements can be lumpy, but the leader aligns with the larger-team end of the profiled systems, where Vercel has the highest median headcount at 8.

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 marketing agency companies?
WP Engine is the most-detected Hosting & PaaS among UK marketing agency companies, with 19.8% share (335 of 1,691 companies with a detectable system), ahead of SiteGround (18.2%) and Amazon Web Services (12.8%).
How many UK marketing agency companies have a detectable Hosting & PaaS?
1,691 of 56,295 actively-trading UK marketing agency companies (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 hosting environment, managed platform or deployment layer used to run websites and web applications for UK marketing agency companies. In this scope, it is the infrastructure category behind agency sites and client-facing digital work, rather than the creative, analytics or CRM layer.
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 marketing agency companies, WP Engine or SiteGround?
WP Engine: 335 detected companies versus 308 for SiteGround, of the 1,691 UK marketing agency companies with a detectable Hosting & PaaS.
What is the best Hosting & PaaS for UK marketing agency companies?
This page publishes usage shares, not recommendations, so “best” is not treated as a product ranking. Among the 1,691 UK marketing agency companies with a detectable Hosting & PaaS system, WP Engine has 19.8% (335) overall; by size band, SiteGround leads Under 10 employees at 18.8% of 1,123 companies, WP Engine leads 10–50 employees at 24.0% of 524 companies, and Amazon Web Services leads Over 50 employees at 31.8% of 44 companies.

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