⚡ Content Management Systems in the United Kingdom

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

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 49.9% of websites from the United Kingdom.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 85.9% share.
It is followed by Joomla with 3.4% and Drupal with 2.6%.

WordPress 85.9%
Joomla 3.4%
Drupal 2.6%
Craft 1.3%
HubSpot CMS 0.6%
Contentful 0.5%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.5%
ExpressionEngine 0.4%
Concrete CMS 0.3%
Umbraco 0.3%
TYPO3 0.2%
K2 0.2%
Kentico 0.2%
ShowOff 0.2%
Other 3.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Craft ^(-4)
5. HubSpot CMS ^(-1)
6. Contentful ^(-3)
8. ExpressionEngine ^(-10)
9. Concrete CMS ^(-8)
10. Umbraco ^(-28)
13. Kentico ^(-6)
14. ShowOff ^(-72)
17. Storyblok ^(-6)
19. Statamic ^(-21)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 153 CMS platforms used on sites from the United Kingdom, 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	85.9%
2	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	3.4%
3	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	2.6%
4	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+	1.3%
5	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	0.6%
6	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	0.5%
7	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	0.5%
8	ExpressionEngine Ormond Beach, Florida, United States An open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source$249+	0.4%
9	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	0.3%
10	Umbraco Odense, Denmark An open-source .NET content management system for building content-driven websites and headless applications, with optional managed cloud hosting. FreeOpen source$55+/month	0.3%
11	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	0.2%
12	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and enhances the default article system. FreeOpen source	0.2%
13	Kentico Brno, Czech Republic A commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. $1,050+/month	0.2%
14	ShowOff London, United Kingdom A content management system designed specifically for event marketers. $$$	0.2%
15	DNN Austin, Texas, United States A free and open-source content management system based on .NET and MS SQL Server. FreeOpen source	0.2%
16	Sanity San Francisco, California, United States A cloud-based headless CMS that stores content as structured data in a hosted content lake and delivers it via APIs to any frontend. Free$15+/seat/month	0.2%
17	Storyblok Linz, Austria An enterprise-grade headless content management system with a visual editor. Free$99+/month	0.2%
18	Sitecore San Francisco, California, United States An enterprise CMS built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server that manages, delivers, and optimizes digital content and experiences across multiple channels. $40,000+/year	0.2%
19	Statamic Ormond Beach, Florida, United States A highly adaptable CMS built on Laravel that can run full-stack or headless, on flat files or database, or as a static site generator. FreeOpen source$7+/month	0.2%
20	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	0.2%
21	Wagtail Bristol, United Kingdom An open-source CMS written in Python and built on the Django web framework. FreeOpen source	0.1%
22	Optimizely CMS New York, United States A cloud-based content management system with enterprise-level features and headless delivery capabilities. $36,000+/year	0.1%
23	SilverStripe Wellington, New Zealand An open-source content management system written in PHP for building content-driven websites. FreeOpen source	0.1%
24	Amplience London, United Kingdom A headless CMS and DAM platform that centralizes structured content creation, asset storage, and delivery via APIs for omnichannel experiences. $25,000+/year	0.1%
25	ProcessWire A PHP-based open-source content management system and web application framework focused on flexible content modeling and API-driven development. FreeOpen source	0.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 CMS in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 157,370 websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.