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

Detected Hosting & PaaS market share across 4,227 UK wholesale companies, with SiteGround leading at 19.9% (843 companies).

Among 77,014 trading UK wholesale companies, 4,227 have a detectable Hosting & PaaS system in 2026. Usage is spread across 36 systems: SiteGround has 19.9% (843 companies), followed by Amazon Web Services on 16.2% (685), Plesk on 11.2% (474), Hostinger on 11.1% (469) and Amazon S3 on 10.7% (451).

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SiteGround sits first in the two smaller employment bands, taking 20.0% of 2,874 companies under 10 employees and 20.7% of 1,208 companies with 10–50 employees. Amazon Web Services moves ahead among companies over 50 employees, with 24.1% of 145 companies.

The next tier is closer together: WP Engine has 9.0% (382 companies), Microsoft Azure 5.7% (241) and Cloudways 5.1% (214). A further 28 systems cover 1,026 companies, leaving a sizeable long tail outside the named systems.

4,227

wholesale with detected Hosting & PaaS

Of 77,014 UK wholesale

5.5%

Detection rate

2026

36

Systems detected

In this category

19.9%

Leader share

SiteGround

UK Wholesale Hosting & PaaS market share

Other (28 systems)

Share of the 4,227 UK Wholesale with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

Hosting & PaaS compared

SystemUK WholesaleShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
SiteGround84319.9%615.5%Micro wholesalers, broad usage
Amazon Web Services68516.2%615.3%Micro wholesalers, cloud infrastructure
Plesk47411.2%612.4%Micro wholesalers, control-panel hosting
Hostinger46911.1%627.1%Micro wholesalers, London-skewed usage
Amazon S345110.7%613.5%Micro wholesalers, storage workloads
WP Engine3829%517.3%Very small web-led wholesalers
Microsoft Azure2415.7%517%Very small cloud users
Cloudways2145.1%513.1%Very small managed cloud users
GoDaddy2074.9%520.3%Very small London-skewed users
20i StackCP1533.6%75.9%Small wholesalers, regional skew
Vercel1152.7%623.5%Micro wholesalers, London-skewed developers
Kinsta1132.7%615.9%Micro wholesalers, managed hosting
Flywheel731.7%619.2%Micro wholesalers, managed sites
Bluehost681.6%633.8%Micro wholesalers, London-heavy usage
Netlify661.6%816.7%Small wholesalers, developer-led sites
Platform.sh561.3%417.9%Very small application platforms
cPanel461.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
IONOS431%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Firebase380.9%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
One.com360.9%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Prositehosting260.6%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
wp.cloud260.6%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Fasthosts160.4%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Acquia Cloud Platform130.3%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Nimbus Hosting130.3%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Pantheon120.3%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
34SP.com100.2%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Hetzner70.2%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
tsoHost70.2%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
GitHub Pages50.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Google Cloud Storage50.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Oracle Cloud50.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
F5 Distributed Cloud Services40.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
DigitalOcean20%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
WordPress VIP10%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Render10%Buy 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 Wholesale with under 10 employees, SiteGround leads at 20% of the 2,874 with a detectable system; among UK Wholesale with 10–50 employees, SiteGround leads at 20.7% of the 1,208 with a detectable system; and among UK Wholesale with over 50 employees, Amazon Web Services leads at 24.1% of the 145 with a detectable system.

Under 10 employees

SiteGround

20% of band

Small wholesalers make up the largest detected band, with 2,874 companies under 10 employees. SiteGround is first here on 20.0%, while the rest of the market is split across cloud platforms, managed hosting and control-panel hosting.

10–50 employees

SiteGround

20.7% of band

Mid-sized wholesale companies account for 1,208 detected users of Hosting & PaaS systems. SiteGround remains first on 20.7%, with Amazon Web Services, Plesk, Hostinger and Amazon S3 competing across web hosting, storage and application workloads.

Over 50 employees

Amazon Web Services

24.1% of band

Larger wholesalers are a smaller cohort, with 145 detected companies over 50 employees. Amazon Web Services leads this band on 24.1%, suggesting more use of cloud infrastructure where teams and workloads are larger.

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 wholesale companies?
SiteGround is the most-detected Hosting & PaaS among UK wholesale companies, with 19.9% share (843 of 4,227 companies with a detectable system), ahead of Amazon Web Services (16.2%) and Plesk (11.2%).
How many UK wholesale companies have a detectable Hosting & PaaS?
4,227 of 77,014 actively-trading UK wholesale companies (5.5%) 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 layer used to run websites, e-commerce front ends, application workloads and related storage for UK wholesale companies. It can cover managed web hosting, cloud infrastructure, control panels, object storage or application deployment platforms, depending on how the wholesaler runs its web operations.
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 wholesale companies, SiteGround or Amazon Web Services?
SiteGround: 843 detected companies versus 685 for Amazon Web Services, of the 4,227 UK wholesale companies with a detectable Hosting & PaaS.
What is the best Hosting & PaaS for UK wholesale companies?
This page publishes observed usage rather than recommendations, so the best Hosting & PaaS system depends on company size, workload and internal capability. SiteGround is most common under 10 employees, at 20.0% of 2,874 companies, and in the 10–50 employees band, at 20.7% of 1,208 companies; Amazon Web Services is most common over 50 employees, at 24.1% of 145 companies.

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