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

This page shows detected Hosting & PaaS market share across 2,346 of 39,965 trading UK SaaS companies, led by Amazon Web Services at 43.1%.

Among 39,965 trading UK SaaS companies, 2,346 have a detectable Hosting & PaaS system. Amazon Web Services has the largest detected footprint at 43.1% (1,011), followed by Amazon S3 at 27.1% (636), WP Engine at 16.0% (376), Vercel at 13.9% (325), and Microsoft Azure at 9.9% (232).

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Employee bands point in the same direction. Amazon Web Services leads among companies under 10 employees at 43.4% of 1,532, among 10–50 employees at 41.1% of 728, and among companies over 50 employees at 54.7% of 86.

The long tail is still visible. SiteGround accounts for 6.9% (162), Netlify 4.5% (106), Kinsta 4.5% (105), and 25 further systems cover 359 companies, taking the category to 33 systems detected.

2,346

SaaS with detected Hosting & PaaS

Of 39,965 UK SaaS

5.9%

Detection rate

2026

33

Systems detected

In this category

43.1%

Leader share

Amazon Web Services

UK SaaS Hosting & PaaS market share

Other (25 systems)

Share of the 2,346 UK SaaS with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

Hosting & PaaS compared

SystemUK SaaSShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
Amazon Web Services1,01143.1%648.6%Six-person SaaS teams, 43.1% share
Amazon S363627.1%548%Five-person SaaS teams, 27.1% share
WP Engine37616%642.8%Six-person SaaS teams, 16.0% share
Vercel32513.9%751.7%Seven-person SaaS teams, 13.9% share
Microsoft Azure2329.9%631.5%Six-person SaaS teams, 9.9% share
SiteGround1626.9%730.9%Seven-person SaaS teams, 6.9% share
Netlify1064.5%646.2%Six-person SaaS teams, 4.5% share
Kinsta1054.5%540%Five-person SaaS teams, 4.5% share
Hostinger662.8%539.4%Five-person SaaS teams, 2.8% share
Firebase662.8%648.5%Six-person SaaS teams, 2.8% share
Plesk612.6%727.9%Seven-person SaaS teams, 2.6% share
Cloudways582.5%729.3%Seven-person SaaS teams, 2.5% share
Pantheon351.5%View these companies in Firmbase →
Flywheel331.4%View these companies in Firmbase →
GitHub Pages331.4%View these companies in Firmbase →
Render291.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
GoDaddy271.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Google Cloud Storage180.8%View these companies in Firmbase →
Bluehost170.7%View these companies in Firmbase →
Acquia Cloud Platform160.7%View these companies in Firmbase →
DigitalOcean160.7%View these companies in Firmbase →
20i StackCP160.7%View these companies in Firmbase →
wp.cloud110.5%View these companies in Firmbase →
cPanel100.4%View these companies in Firmbase →
Platform.sh80.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Oracle Cloud60.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
WordPress VIP60.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Fasthosts50.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
One.com40.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Prositehosting30.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
Nimbus Hosting30.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
F5 Distributed Cloud Services10%View these companies in Firmbase →
Hetzner10%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 SaaS with under 10 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 43.4% of the 1,532 with a detectable system; among UK SaaS with 10–50 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 41.1% of the 728 with a detectable system; and among UK SaaS with over 50 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 54.7% of the 86 with a detectable system.

Under 10 employees

Amazon Web Services

43.4% of band

Under 10 employees contains 1,532 companies, the largest employee band here. Amazon Web Services leads this band with 43.4%, while the wider category remains spread across 33 detected systems.

10–50 employees

Amazon Web Services

41.1% of band

Companies with 10–50 employees account for 728 detectable Hosting & PaaS users. Amazon Web Services leads with 41.1%, close to its overall 43.1% footprint.

Over 50 employees

Amazon Web Services

54.7% of band

Over 50 employees is a much smaller band, with 86 companies. Amazon Web Services has its highest band share here at 54.7%.

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 SaaS companies?
Amazon Web Services is the most-detected Hosting & PaaS among UK SaaS companies, with 43.1% share (1,011 of 2,346 companies with a detectable system), ahead of Amazon S3 (27.1%) and WP Engine (16%).
How many UK SaaS companies have a detectable Hosting & PaaS?
2,346 of 39,965 actively-trading UK SaaS companies (5.9%) 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 is the infrastructure layer a SaaS company uses to run applications, store assets, deploy code or host web properties. For UK SaaS companies, it usually sits behind the product and website rather than the customer-facing workflow, but it shapes release cadence, operating cost and service availability.
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 SaaS companies, Amazon Web Services or Amazon S3?
Amazon Web Services: 1,011 detected companies versus 636 for Amazon S3, of the 2,346 UK SaaS companies with a detectable Hosting & PaaS.
What is the best Hosting & PaaS for UK SaaS companies?
This page publishes usage shares rather than recommendations, so it does not rank a single best Hosting & PaaS system. Among the 2,346 UK SaaS companies with a detectable system, Amazon Web Services leads every employee band: 43.4% of 1,532 under 10 employees, 41.1% of 728 with 10–50 employees, and 54.7% of 86 over 50 employees. Overall usage is led by Amazon Web Services at 43.1% (1,011), Amazon S3 at 27.1% (636), WP Engine at 16.0% (376), Vercel at 13.9% (325), and Microsoft Azure at 9.9% (232), with 25 further systems covering 359 companies.

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