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

Updated June 2026

Detected Hosting & PaaS market share across 1,576 UK recruitment companies, led by Amazon Web Services at 19.9% (314 companies).

Among 26,468 trading UK recruitment companies, 1,576 have a detectable Hosting & PaaS system. Amazon Web Services has the largest detected share at 19.9% (314), followed by SiteGround at 16.1% (253), WP Engine at 11.6% (183) and Hostinger at 10.7% (168).

Amazon Web Services is also first in each employee band: 20.4% across 890 companies under 10 employees, 18.8% across 537 companies with 10–50 employees, and 20.8% across 149 companies over 50 employees. Median headcounts among the profiled systems sit between 6 employees for Amazon S3 and 9 employees for Hostinger, Plesk, Microsoft Azure and Vercel, so the category is mostly visible in small recruitment firms.

Thirty-four Hosting & PaaS systems are detected overall. After Amazon S3 at 9.5% (149), the named shares step down through Plesk 7.0% (110), GoDaddy 5.9% (93), Microsoft Azure 5.1% (80), Cloudways 4.9% (77) and Vercel 3.9% (62). A long tail of 26 further systems covers 418 companies.

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1,576

recruitment with detected Hosting & PaaS

Of 26,468 UK recruitment

Detection rate

2026

Systems detected

In this category

19.9%

Leader share

Amazon Web Services

UK Recruitment Hosting & PaaS market share

Other (26 systems)

Share of the 1,576 UK Recruitment with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

Hosting & PaaS compared

System	UK Recruitment	Share	Median headcount	London share	Typical profile
Amazon Web Services	314	19.9%	7	33.8%	Small recruiters, median 7 employees
SiteGround	253	16.1%	7	29.2%	Small recruiters, median 7 employees
WP Engine	183	11.6%	7	34.4%	Small recruiters, median 7 employees
Hostinger	168	10.7%	9	30.4%	Small recruiters, median 9 employees
Amazon S3	149	9.5%	6	35.6%	Very small recruiters, median 6 employees
Plesk	110	7%	9	23.6%	Small recruiters, median 9 employees
GoDaddy	93	5.9%	8	24.7%	Small recruiters, median 8 employees
Microsoft Azure	80	5.1%	9	23.8%	Small recruiters, median 9 employees
Cloudways	77	4.9%	8	29.9%	Small recruiters, median 8 employees
Vercel	62	3.9%	9	46.8%	London-skewed recruiters, median 9 employees
Kinsta	48	3%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
20i StackCP	40	2.5%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
One.com	34	2.2%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Firebase	34	2.2%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Bluehost	32	2%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Flywheel	30	1.9%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Netlify	28	1.8%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
cPanel	18	1.1%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
IONOS	15	1%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Pantheon	7	0.4%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Hetzner	6	0.4%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
wp.cloud	5	0.3%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Nimbus Hosting	4	0.3%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
tsoHost	3	0.2%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Oracle Cloud	3	0.2%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
GitHub Pages	2	0.1%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Google Cloud Storage	2	0.1%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Fasthosts	2	0.1%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
DigitalOcean	2	0.1%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Platform.sh	2	0.1%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Prositehosting	2	0.1%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Acquia Cloud Platform	1	0.1%	—	—	Get these companies as a spreadsheet →
Render	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 Recruitment with under 10 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 20.4% of the 890 with a detectable system; among UK Recruitment with 10–50 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 18.8% of the 537 with a detectable system; and among UK Recruitment with over 50 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 20.8% of the 149 with a detectable system.

Under 10 employees

Amazon Web Services

20.4% of band

The sub-10 employee band contains 890 companies, with Amazon Web Services at 20.4%. SiteGround 16.1% (253), WP Engine 11.6% (183), Hostinger 10.7% (168) and Amazon S3 9.5% (149) are the main named alternatives in the wider market.

10–50 employees

Amazon Web Services

18.8% of band

The 10–50 employee band contains 537 companies, and Amazon Web Services has 18.8%. The wider competitor set includes SiteGround 16.1% (253), WP Engine 11.6% (183), Hostinger 10.7% (168), Amazon S3 9.5% (149) and Plesk 7.0% (110).

Over 50 employees

Amazon Web Services

20.8% of band

The over-50 employee band contains 149 companies, with Amazon Web Services at 20.8%. The overall market still includes alternatives across platform cloud and managed hosting, including Plesk 7.0% (110), Microsoft Azure 5.1% (80), Cloudways 4.9% (77) and Vercel 3.9% (62).

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.

Sources

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UK Recruitment by Hosting & PaaS

Recruitment Companies Using Amazon Web Services in the UK Recruitment Companies Using SiteGround in the UK Recruitment Companies Using WP Engine in the UK Recruitment Companies Using Hostinger in the UK Recruitment Companies Using Amazon S3 in the UK Recruitment Companies Using Plesk in the UK Recruitment Companies Using GoDaddy in the UK Recruitment Companies Using Cloudways in the UK Recruitment Companies Using Microsoft Azure in the UK Recruitment Companies Using Vercel in the UK

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Frequently asked questions

What is the most-used Hosting & PaaS among UK recruitment companies?

Amazon Web Services is the most-detected Hosting & PaaS among UK recruitment companies, with 19.9% share (314 of 1,576 companies with a detectable system), ahead of SiteGround (16.1%) and WP Engine (11.6%).

How many UK recruitment companies have a detectable Hosting & PaaS?

1,576 of 26,468 actively-trading UK recruitment companies (6%) 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, managed platform or application-runtime layer that runs a recruitment firm’s web presence and related digital services. For UK recruitment companies, that layer typically supports vacancy pages, candidate forms, marketing sites and client-facing online services.

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 recruitment companies, Amazon Web Services or SiteGround?

Amazon Web Services: 314 detected companies versus 253 for SiteGround, of the 1,576 UK recruitment companies with a detectable Hosting & PaaS.

What is the best Hosting & PaaS for UK recruitment companies?

No single Hosting & PaaS system is labelled as "best" here; observed usage is reported rather than recommendations. Amazon Web Services has the largest detected share overall at 19.9% (314) and is first in all three bands: Under 10 employees, 20.4% across 890 companies; 10–50 employees, 18.8% across 537 companies; and Over 50 employees, 20.8% across 149 companies. The next largest detected shares are SiteGround 16.1% (253), WP Engine 11.6% (183), Hostinger 10.7% (168) and Amazon S3 9.5% (149), while 26 further systems cover 418 companies.

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