β‘ Backend Frameworks in the United Arab Emirates
Backend frameworks are software libraries of tools and modules that help developers build the server-side of a web application.
The United Arab Emirates is a Western Asian country with a population of over 10 million people.
According to our research, backend frameworks are detected on 22.7% of websites from the United Arab Emirates.
β Most Popular in 2026
The following chart shows the top backend frameworks in the United Arab Emirates in 2026, based on market share.
The most popular is ASP.NET with a share of 29.1%, followed by Laravel with 17.9% and
Ruby on Rails with 17%.
- ASP.NET 29.1%
Laravel 17.9%
Ruby on Rails 17%
Next.js 16%
- CodeIgniter 5.2%
Nuxt 3.3%
- ASP.NET Core 2.6%
Express 2.3%
Apache Sling 2.1%
Java Portlet 1.4%
- Yii Framework 1.3%
Livewire 1%
Jakarta Servlet 0.8%
- Django 0.8%
Jakarta Server Pages 0.6%
π Highlights
Here is a list of the top frameworks that are more popular in the United Arab Emirates than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.
- 2.
Laravel (-1)
- 5. CodeIgniter (-3)
- 9.
Apache Sling (-4)
- 10.
Java Portlet (-8)
- 12.
Livewire (-3)
- 16.
Spring (-7)
- 17.
Remix (-7) - 18.
CakePHP (-2)
- 20.
Inertia.js (-2)
- 23. Flask (-5)
β¨ Best Backend Frameworks
Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 33 backend frameworks used on sites from the United Arab Emirates, ranked by their market share.
π See Also
- π Backend Frameworks in other countries
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