⚡ Content Management Systems in Saudi Arabia

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

Saudi Arabia is a Western Asian country with a population of over 37 million people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 42.3% of websites from Saudi Arabia.

Statistics based on 3K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 83.2% share.
It is followed by Drupal with 5.5% and Microsoft SharePoint with 3.2%.

WordPress 83.2%
Drupal 5.5%
Microsoft SharePoint 3.2%
Joomla 1.3%
Adobe Experience Manager 1.1%
Sitecore 0.8%
Liferay 0.8%
Strapi 0.7%
Umbraco 0.4%
HCL Digital Experience 0.4%
Sitefinity 0.3%
K2 0.2%
Sanity 0.2%
Kentico 0.2%
Other 1.7%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Drupal ^(-1)
3. Microsoft SharePoint ^(-36)
5. Adobe Experience Manager ^(-2)
6. Sitecore ^(-10)
7. Liferay ^(-16)
8. Strapi ^(-20)
9. Umbraco ^(-29)
10. HCL Digital Experience ^(-59)
11. Sitefinity ^(-20)
13. Sanity ^(-2)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 40 CMS platforms used on sites from Saudi Arabia, 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	83.2%
2	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	5.5%
3	Microsoft SharePoint Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud-based collaboration and content management service that enables organizations to store, share, and manage documents, knowledge, and internal websites within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. $5+/user/month	3.2%
4	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	1.3%
5	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	1.1%
6	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	0.8%
7	Liferay Diamond Bar, California, United States An open-source enterprise web platform for building business solutions, intranets, customer portals, and digital experiences across web and mobile channels. FreeOpen source$$$	0.8%
8	Strapi San Francisco, California, United States An open-source headless CMS built with Node.js and TypeScript that connects to various databases and frontend frameworks. FreeOpen source$45+/month	0.7%
9	Umbraco Odense, Denmark An open-source .NET content management system for building content-driven websites and headless applications, with optional managed cloud hosting. FreeOpen source$55+/month	0.4%
10	HCL Digital Experience Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India A web portal solution that provides an integration framework for enterprise information systems. Free$$$	0.4%
11	Sitefinity Burlington, Massachusetts, United States A cloud-based, AI-powered, enterprise-grade CMS built on .NET technology. $$$	0.3%
12	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%
13	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%
14	Kentico Brno, Czech Republic A commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. $1,050+/month	0.2%
15	Question2Answer United Kingdom A free and open source platform for Q&A websites, running on PHP/MySQL. FreeOpen source	0.2%
16	ExpressionEngine Ormond Beach, Florida, United States An open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source$249+	0.2%
17	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%
18	October CMS Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia A self-hosted, open-source content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework. Free$39	0.1%
19	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	0.1%
20	DNN Austin, Texas, United States A free and open-source content management system based on .NET and MS SQL Server. FreeOpen source	0.1%
21	Magnolia Münchenstein, Switzerland An enterprise content management system that's built for demanding multi-channel, multi-language and multi-site digital experience scenarios. FreeOpen source$3,500+/month	0.1%
22	DatoCMS Florence, Italy A cloud-based headless CMS that organizes content and assets via APIs for delivery across websites, mobile apps, and other digital channels. Free€199+/month	0.1%
23	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	0.1%
24	Storyblok Linz, Austria An enterprise-grade headless content management system with a visual editor. Free$99+/month	0.1%
25	OpenText Web Waterloo, Ontario, Canada An enterprise web content management system formerly known as TeamSite.	0.06%

👉 See Also

🌎 CMS in other countries
- Iraq
- Oman
- Qatar

🗃️ 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 3,961 websites from Saudi Arabia.
We currently track the presence of 290 CMS platforms across the web.
Of these, 40 were detected on websites from Saudi Arabia.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.