Security Used by UK Healthcare Companies: Market Share (2026)

Among 3,459 UK healthcare companies with detectable Security, reCAPTCHA leads with 85.9% market share, ahead of Akismet at 7.1% and CleanTalk at 3.3%.

Among 122,331 trading UK healthcare companies, 3,459 have a detectable Security system. reCAPTCHA accounts for 85.9% of detected use (2,973 companies), leaving 16 other systems to share the remainder.

Read more

Across employee bands, the pattern is consistent. reCAPTCHA has 86.1% of 1,536 detected companies under 10 employees, 84.8% of 1,458 companies with 10–50 employees, and 89.0% of 465 companies over 50 employees.

Beyond reCAPTCHA, the market is fragmented: Akismet has 7.1% (247 companies), CleanTalk has 3.3% (115), hCaptcha and TrustedSite each sit at 2.3% (79 and 78), and Sucuri has 1.9% (65). A further 9 systems cover 41 companies between them.

3,459

healthcare with detected Security

Of 122,331 UK healthcare

2.8%

Detection rate

2026

17

Systems detected

In this category

85.9%

Leader share

reCAPTCHA

UK Healthcare Security market share

Other (9 systems)

Share of the 3,459 UK Healthcare with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

Security compared

SystemUK HealthcareShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
reCAPTCHA2,97385.9%1118.5%Median 11-person healthcare teams
Akismet2477.1%1119.4%Median 11-person secondary adopters
CleanTalk1153.3%1016.5%Median 10-person smaller adopters
hCaptcha792.3%1116.5%Median 11-person smaller adopters
TrustedSite782.3%1212.8%Median 12-person healthcare teams
Sucuri651.9%1329.2%Median 13-person, London-skewed adopters
Wordfence401.2%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
WP Guardian331%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Imperva270.8%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Akamai Bot Manager80.2%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Arkose Labs70.2%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
FingerprintJS40.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Barracuda Networks30.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
DataDome30.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Sectigo TrustLogo30.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Trustwave30.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Kiprotect20.1%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 Security system shifts with company size: among UK Healthcare with under 10 employees, reCAPTCHA leads at 86.1% of the 1,536 with a detectable system; among UK Healthcare with 10–50 employees, reCAPTCHA leads at 84.8% of the 1,458 with a detectable system; and among UK Healthcare with over 50 employees, reCAPTCHA leads at 89% of the 465 with a detectable system.

Under 10 employees

reCAPTCHA

86.1% of band

Companies under 10 employees form the largest detected band, with 1,536 companies. reCAPTCHA accounts for 86.1%, leaving the rest of the band split across smaller Security systems.

10–50 employees

reCAPTCHA

84.8% of band

Mid-sized healthcare companies show a similar pattern, with 1,458 detected companies and reCAPTCHA on 84.8%. Alternatives compete in relatively small pockets rather than matching the main system’s reach.

Over 50 employees

reCAPTCHA

89% of band

Larger healthcare companies account for 465 detected users, and reCAPTCHA’s share rises to 89.0%. The long tail is narrower in this band than the overall count of 17 detected systems might suggest.

How Security 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.

All product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Firmbase is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any trademark owner.

UK Healthcare by Security

Related directories

Frequently asked questions

What is the most-used Security among UK healthcare companies?
reCAPTCHA is the most-detected Security among UK healthcare companies, with 85.9% share (2,973 of 3,459 companies with a detectable system), ahead of Akismet (7.1%) and CleanTalk (3.3%).
How many UK healthcare companies have a detectable Security?
3,459 of 122,331 actively-trading UK healthcare companies (2.8%) have a Security 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 Security?
A Security system for UK healthcare companies typically helps protect websites, forms and public-facing digital services from automated abuse, spam, suspicious traffic or malware. In this category, detected systems include bot checks, spam filtering, site protection and trust-related tools used alongside the company’s wider operational controls.
How is Security 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 healthcare companies, reCAPTCHA or Akismet?
reCAPTCHA: 2,973 detected companies versus 247 for Akismet, of the 3,459 UK healthcare companies with a detectable Security.
What is the best Security for UK healthcare companies?
The ranking shows observed usage rather than a recommendation, so there is no single “best” Security system here. reCAPTCHA leads every employee band: 86.1% of 1,536 companies under 10 employees, 84.8% of 1,458 companies with 10–50 employees, and 89.0% of 465 companies over 50 employees. Overall, reCAPTCHA has 85.9% of detected use (2,973 companies), followed by Akismet at 7.1% (247) and CleanTalk at 3.3% (115).

Buy all 3,459 companies as a spreadsheet.

One Excel/CSV file with company details, websites and key data — yours to download and use.