Media Companies Using Drupal in the UK: 60 Active Firms (2026)

Updated June 2026

Media publishers using enterprise content management systems produce, package and distribute digital editorial content for UK audiences.

For media and publishing organisations, this CMS tends to sit behind multi-title editorial estates rather than simple brochure sites. Adoption points to an in-house or retained technical team, a need for workflow control, and a publishing model that may combine editorial, advertising, membership, events and specialist information products. The buying centre usually spans digital product, editorial operations, commercial teams and technology leadership. Engagements are therefore closer to platform maintenance and integration work than one-off web builds, with attention paid to permissions, reusable content types, search, page performance and audience-segmentation requirements.

Across the UK, 60 media and publishing organisations are currently running this CMS on public-facing digital properties. The reported employment footprint is 637 people, with all 44 firms that disclose headcount reporting at least some staff. Within the detected CMS ranking for this sector, the system accounts for 1.7% of 3,602 detections, putting it in the specialist end of the market rather than the default publishing stack. Adoption is also regionally skewed: London accounts for 56.7% of the cohort, followed by the South East at 16.7%, Wales at 6.7%, the East Midlands at 5.0% and the North West at 3.3%.

Procurement for these publishers is shaped by the systems around the CMS as much as by the CMS itself. Editorial teams need governance over roles, approvals, archives and corrections, while commercial teams need advertising, analytics, consent and subscription integrations that can be audited. Where audience profiling, newsletters or membership products are involved, data-protection and cookie-consent work tends to sit close to CMS operations. The stack also implies a vendor ecosystem of hosting providers, digital agencies, security specialists and retained developers, because modular publishing estates carry ongoing patching, accessibility and performance obligations.

Adoption appears likely to remain selective among UK media publishers. The CMS suits organisations with complex editorial structures, multiple audience products and enough technical capacity to manage a modular stack, but it is less natural for smaller publishers that want hosted templates and lower maintenance overhead. Migration pressure tends to come from security, content-model debt and the need to rationalise older publication estates. Some publishers will continue to value openness and custom workflow control; others may move towards bundled platforms where commercial tooling, analytics and content production sit closer together.

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Adoption by company size

Adoption of Drupal rises with company size across the trading UK media companies in this cohort. 0% of the 91,499 companies with under 10 employees run Drupal (42 detected). 1.1% of the 1,410 companies with 10–50 employees run Drupal (15 detected). 2.5% of the 121 companies with over 50 employees run Drupal (3 detected). That is a 2.5% gap between the over 50 employees and under 10 employees bands.

Active firms

2026

1.7%

Of detected CMS share

UK media

Median headcount

Filed accounts

155

Verified contacts

Across this cohort

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