⚡ Backend Frameworks in Germany

Backend frameworks are software libraries of tools and modules that help developers build the server-side of a web application.

Germany is a Central European country with a population of around 84 million people.

According to our research, backend frameworks are detected on 9.8% of websites from Germany.

Statistics based on 228K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top backend frameworks in Germany in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Symfony with a share of 27.6%, followed by Ruby on Rails with 15.7% and ASP.NET with 13.8%.

Symfony 27.6%
Ruby on Rails 15.7%
ASP.NET 13.8%
Laravel 8.7%
Next.js 8.5%
Nuxt 4.2%
Express 3.9%
Apache Sling 3.4%
Flow 2.4%
Yii Framework 2.3%
Django 1.9%
Jakarta Servlet 1.4%
ASP.NET Core 1.3%
Jakarta Server Pages 1%
Other 3.9%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top frameworks that are more popular in Germany than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Symfony ^(-9)
8. Apache Sling ^(-4)
9. Flow ^(-18)
11. Django ^(-3)
17. SvelteKit ^(-1)
18. Spring ^(-5)
20. Inertia.js ^(-2)
21. Zope ^(-9)
25. Flask ^(-4)

✨ Best Backend Frameworks

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 56 backend frameworks used on sites from Germany, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Symfony Clichy, Île-de-France, France An open-source PHP web application framework and a set of reusable components designed to speed up the development and maintenance of web applications using best practices and high modularity. FreeOpen source	27.6%
2	Ruby on Rails Chicago, Illinois, United States A full-stack web application framework that provides the tools needed to build database-driven applications using the Model-View-Controller pattern. FreeOpen source	15.7%
3	ASP.NET Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side web application framework that runs on the .NET platform and enables developers to build dynamic websites and APIs using languages like C#. FreeOpen source	13.8%
4	Laravel New York, United States An open-source PHP backend framework that provides all features needed to build modern web applications such as routing, input validation, caching, queues, and file storage. FreeOpen source	8.7%
5	Next.js San Francisco, California, United States A React framework for building full-stack web applications that offers server-side rendering, static site generation, file-based routing, and built-in API routes. FreeOpen source	8.5%
6	Nuxt San Francisco, California, United States An open-source framework based on Vue.js that enables developers to build full-stack web applications and websites using conventions like file-based routing, automatic component imports, and type-safe support out of the box. FreeOpen source	4.2%
7	Express San Francisco, California, United States A minimal and flexible Node.js web framework that lets developers build web apps and APIs using routing, middleware, template engines, and support for serving static assets. FreeOpen source	3.9%
8	Apache Sling Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source web framework that uses a Java Content Repository, such as Apache Jackrabbit, to store and manage content. FreeOpen source	3.4%
9	Flow A PHP web application framework focused on Domain-Driven Design and clean code principles. FreeOpen source	2.4%
10	Yii Framework Chicago, Illinois, United States An open-source, object-oriented, component-based MVC PHP web application framework. FreeOpen source	2.3%
11	Django Huntersville, North Carolina, United States A high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design while following the Model-View-Template architectural pattern and the "don't repeat yourself" principle. FreeOpen source	1.9%
12	Jakarta Servlet Brussels, Belgium Enables developers to write web UIs using pure Java. FreeOpen source	1.4%
13	ASP.NET Core Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, cross-platform web framework and the successor to ASP.NET that enables development of web apps and APIs using .NET on Windows, macOS, or Linux. FreeOpen source	1.3%
14	Jakarta Server Pages Brussels, Belgium A technology that enables developers to create dynamic web content using XML markup, custom tags, expression language, and Java. FreeOpen source	1%
15	CodeIgniter Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada An open-source PHP full-stack web framework with small footprint, high performance, and minimal configuration setup. FreeOpen source	0.9%
16	Livewire Buffalo, New York, United States A full-stack framework for Laravel that allows developers to build dynamic user interface components using PHP and Blade templates without writing front-end JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.8%
17	SvelteKit A framework for rapidly developing robust, performant web applications using Svelte. FreeOpen source	0.7%
18	Spring Palo Alto, United States A Java framework for building enterprise-grade applications. FreeOpen source	0.6%
19	Java Portlet Java Portlets are pluggable user interface software components that are managed and displayed in a web portal.	0.4%
20	Inertia.js New York, United States A toolkit for building single-page applications with React, Vue.js, or Svelte while keeping classic server-side routing and controllers. FreeOpen source	0.4%
21	Zope Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source web application server and web framework written in Python. FreeOpen source	0.4%
22	Rack A minimal, modular interface and invocation convention that operates between Ruby web servers and web applications to standardize how HTTP requests and responses are exchanged. FreeOpen source	0.4%
23	Struts Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source MVC framework for creating modern Java web applications. FreeOpen source	0.3%
24	CakePHP Las Vegas, Nevada, United States A rapid development framework for PHP that uses MVC, front controller, associative data mapping and active record patterns to help developers build web applications faster. FreeOpen source	0.2%
25	Flask Wilmington, Delaware, United States A lightweight framework for building web applications in Python. FreeOpen source	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Backend Frameworks in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 228,724 websites from Germany.
We currently track the presence of 68 backend frameworks across the web.
Of these, 56 were detected on websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.