⚡ Content Management Systems in Germany

Content Management Systems (CMS) are software solutions that allow users to create, edit, and organize website content without coding, simplifying ongoing website maintenance.

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

According to our research, content management systems are used on 45.7% of websites from Germany.

Statistics based on 240K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top CMS platforms in Germany in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 66.5% share.
It is followed by TYPO3 with 14.8% and Joomla with 5.2%.

WordPress 66.5%
TYPO3 14.8%
Joomla 5.2%
Contao 3.4%
Drupal 2.7%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.7%
Neos 0.5%
Pimcore 0.4%
ProcessWire 0.4%
Weblication 0.4%
Craft 0.3%
Contentful 0.3%
HubSpot CMS 0.3%
Storyblok 0.2%
Other 3.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. TYPO3 ^(-2)
4. Contao ^(-5)
6. Adobe Experience Manager ^(-1)
7. Neos ^(-40)
8. Pimcore ^(-26)
9. ProcessWire ^(-24)
10. Weblication ^(-44)
14. Storyblok ^(-8)
16. Wagtail ^(-21)
18. SilverStripe ^(-12)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 166 CMS platforms used on sites from Germany, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	WordPress San Francisco, California, United States A widely used open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source	66.5%
2	TYPO3 Düsseldorf, Germany An open-source enterprise content management system written in PHP that supports multisite and multilingual installations and has a large extension repository. FreeOpen source	14.8%
3	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	5.2%
4	Contao Lyss, Switzerland An open-source content management system built with PHP, Symfony, and MySQL. FreeOpen source	3.4%
5	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	2.7%
6	Adobe Experience Manager San Jose, California, United States A software solution that's equal part content management system and digital asset management system. $50,000+/year	0.7%
7	Neos Dresden, Germany An open-source enterprise content management system based on the Flow framework. FreeOpen source	0.5%
8	Pimcore Salzburg, Austria An open-source enterprise platform that includes PIM, MDM, CDP, DAM, DXP/CMS, and digital commerce. FreeOpen source$$$	0.4%
9	ProcessWire A PHP-based open-source content management system and web application framework focused on flexible content modeling and API-driven development. FreeOpen source	0.4%
10	Weblication Kehl, Germany A German content management system built with PHP and XML that offers both a standard "Core" version and an enterprise "Grid" version. €18.90+/month	0.4%
11	Craft Bend, Oregon, United States A flexible open-source content management system written in PHP that supports MySQL or PostgreSQL databases and is built on the Yii Framework. Free$279+	0.3%
12	Contentful Berlin, Germany A commercial, cloud-based, headless content management system that structures content for use across multiple digital platforms via APIs. Free$300+/month	0.3%
13	HubSpot CMS Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A hosted platform for building websites, blogs, landing pages, apps, and emails that integrates tightly with HubSpot CRM and other marketing tools. Free$15+/seat/month	0.3%
14	Storyblok Linz, Austria An enterprise-grade headless content management system with a visual editor. Free$99+/month	0.2%
15	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and extends the default article system with a structured content framework. FreeOpen source	0.2%
16	Wagtail Bristol, United Kingdom An open-source CMS written in Python and built on the Django web framework. FreeOpen source	0.2%
17	Concrete CMS Portland, Oregon, United States An open-source content management system built with PHP and MySQL that combines in-context editing and modular page building. FreeOpen source	0.2%
18	SilverStripe Wellington, New Zealand An open-source content management system written in PHP for building content-driven websites. FreeOpen source	0.2%
19	Statamic Ormond Beach, Florida, United States A flexible content management system built on Laravel that can operate as a full-stack or headless CMS, using flat files or a database, and can generate static sites. FreeOpen source$275+	0.2%
20	OpenCms Cologne, Germany An open source content management system based on Java and XML. FreeOpen source	0.2%
21	Government Site Builder Bonn, Germany A content management system designed for the German public sector.	0.1%
22	Sitecore San Francisco, California, United States An enterprise CMS built on ASP.NET Core and Microsoft SQL Server that manages, delivers, and optimizes digital content and experiences across multiple channels. $40,000+/year	0.1%
23	Strapi San Francisco, California, United States An open-source headless CMS built with Node.js and TypeScript that connects to various databases and frontend frameworks. FreeOpen source$45+/month	0.1%
24	Grav Evergreen, Colorado, United States A flat file CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony. FreeOpen source$30+	0.1%
25	Plone Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source enterprise content management system built with Python and the Zope application server for managing scalable and content-rich websites. FreeOpen source	0.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 CMS 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 240,077 websites from Germany.
We currently track the presence of 290 CMS platforms across the web.
Of these, 166 were detected on websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on May 26, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.