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

Detected Hosting & PaaS market share across 1,946 UK sport and leisure companies, led by Amazon Web Services at 25.6%.

Among 55,513 trading UK Sport & Leisure companies, 1,946 have a detectable Hosting & PaaS system. Usage spans 35 systems, with Amazon Web Services on 25.6% (499), SiteGround on 18.9% (367) and Amazon S3 on 14.9% (289).

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Amazon Web Services has the largest detected share in each employee band: 25.4% of 1,194 companies under 10 employees, 25.1% of 662 companies with 10–50 employees, and 33.3% of 90 companies over 50 employees. The pattern suggests one broad cloud platform sits across both small operators and the relatively small larger-company cohort.

Behind the first three systems, Microsoft Azure has 8.9% (174), WP Engine 8.3% (161), Plesk 5.7% (110), Hostinger 5.3% (103) and Cloudways 4.9% (96). A further 27 systems cover 484 companies, leaving a sizeable long tail beyond the named platforms.

1,946

Sport & Leisure with detected Hosting & PaaS

Of 55,513 UK Sport & Leisure

3.5%

Detection rate

2026

35

Systems detected

In this category

25.6%

Leader share

Amazon Web Services

UK Sport & Leisure Hosting & PaaS market share

Other (27 systems)

Share of the 1,946 UK Sport & Leisure with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

Hosting & PaaS compared

SystemUK Sport & LeisureShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
Amazon Web Services49925.6%612.4%6-employee median, 25.6% share
SiteGround36718.9%815.8%8-employee median, 18.9% share
Amazon S328914.9%611.8%6-employee median, 14.9% share
Microsoft Azure1748.9%79.2%7-employee median, 8.9% share
WP Engine1618.3%613%6-employee median, 8.3% share
Plesk1105.7%77.3%7-employee median, 5.7% share
Hostinger1035.3%76.8%7-employee median, 5.3% share
Cloudways964.9%710.4%7-employee median, 4.9% share
GoDaddy743.8%712.2%7-employee median, 3.8% share
Kinsta613.1%813.1%8-employee median, 3.1% share
Vercel613.1%519.7%5-employee median, 3.1% share
20i StackCP562.9%105.4%10-employee median, 2.9% share
Netlify422.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Flywheel392%View these companies in Firmbase →
Bluehost361.8%View these companies in Firmbase →
WordPress VIP281.4%View these companies in Firmbase →
F5 Distributed Cloud Services241.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
IONOS191%View these companies in Firmbase →
Firebase180.9%View these companies in Firmbase →
One.com170.9%View these companies in Firmbase →
cPanel110.6%View these companies in Firmbase →
Platform.sh100.5%View these companies in Firmbase →
wp.cloud90.5%View these companies in Firmbase →
tsoHost80.4%View these companies in Firmbase →
34SP.com70.4%View these companies in Firmbase →
Pantheon60.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Hetzner50.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Nimbus Hosting50.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Prositehosting50.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Fasthosts50.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Google Cloud Storage40.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
DigitalOcean40.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
GitHub Pages30.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Render20.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
Acquia Cloud Platform10.1%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 Sport & Leisure with under 10 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 25.4% of the 1,194 with a detectable system; among UK Sport & Leisure with 10–50 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 25.1% of the 662 with a detectable system; and among UK Sport & Leisure with over 50 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 33.3% of the 90 with a detectable system.

Under 10 employees

Amazon Web Services

25.4% of band

This is the largest detected band, with 1,194 companies and Amazon Web Services at 25.4%. SiteGround at 18.9% (367) and Amazon S3 at 14.9% (289) are the next largest systems overall, so smaller-company usage is split beyond a single hosting model.

10–50 employees

Amazon Web Services

25.1% of band

This band covers 662 companies, with Amazon Web Services taking 25.1%. The wider competitor set includes SiteGround, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and a long tail of 27 further systems covering 484 companies.

Over 50 employees

Amazon Web Services

33.3% of band

Only 90 detected companies sit in this band, and Amazon Web Services has 33.3%. The larger-company cohort is still small enough for the remaining share to fragment across the same broader Hosting & PaaS market.

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 Sport & Leisure companies?
Amazon Web Services is the most-detected Hosting & PaaS among UK Sport & Leisure companies, with 25.6% share (499 of 1,946 companies with a detectable system), ahead of SiteGround (18.9%) and Amazon S3 (14.9%).
How many UK Sport & Leisure companies have a detectable Hosting & PaaS?
1,946 of 55,513 actively-trading UK Sport & Leisure companies (3.5%) 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, storage or platform layer used to run web services for UK Sport & Leisure companies. It can cover website hosting, application deployment and supporting storage, giving operators somewhere to run public-facing and operational digital 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 Sport & Leisure companies, Amazon Web Services or SiteGround?
Amazon Web Services: 499 detected companies versus 367 for SiteGround, of the 1,946 UK Sport & Leisure companies with a detectable Hosting & PaaS.
What is the best Hosting & PaaS for UK Sport & Leisure companies?
This page publishes detected usage rather than recommendations, so it should not be read as a ranking of product quality. Amazon Web Services has the largest detected share overall, at 25.6% (499), and also has the largest share in Under 10 employees at 25.4% of 1,194, 10–50 employees at 25.1% of 662, and Over 50 employees at 33.3% of 90. SiteGround follows overall at 18.9% (367), then Amazon S3 at 14.9% (289), with 27 further systems covering 484 companies.

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