⚡ 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 42.6% of websites from Saudi Arabia.

Statistics based on 4K+ 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 82.7% share.
It is followed by Drupal with 5.5% and Microsoft SharePoint with 3%.

WordPress 82.7%
Drupal 5.5%
Microsoft SharePoint 3%
Joomla 1.3%
Sitecore 0.9%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.8%
Strapi 0.8%
Liferay 0.7%
HCL Digital Experience 0.4%
Umbraco 0.3%
Sanity 0.3%
Sitefinity 0.3%
Kentico 0.2%
Question2Answer 0.2%
Other 2.5%

🚀 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.

3. Microsoft SharePoint ^(-42)
5. Sitecore ^(-11)
6. Adobe Experience Manager ^(-1)
7. Strapi ^(-16)
8. Liferay ^(-17)
9. HCL Digital Experience ^(-65)
10. Umbraco ^(-28)
12. Sitefinity ^(-23)
13. Kentico ^(-7)
14. Question2Answer ^(-136)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 44 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	82.7%
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%
4	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	1.3%
5	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	0.9%
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	0.8%
7	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	0.8%
8	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$$$	0.7%
9	HCL Digital Experience Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India An enterprise web portal and digital experience platform that provides an integration framework for information systems and business applications. Free$$$	0.4%
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	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	0.3%
12	Sitefinity Burlington, Massachusetts, United States A cloud-based, AI-powered, enterprise-grade CMS built on the .NET platform. $$$	0.3%
13	Kentico Brno, Czech Republic A commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. $1,050+/month	0.2%
14	Question2Answer United Kingdom A free and open-source platform for Q&A websites, running on PHP/MySQL. FreeOpen source	0.2%
15	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	0.2%
16	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+	0.2%
17	DNN Austin, Texas, United States A free and open-source content management system based on .NET and MS SQL Server. FreeOpen source	0.2%
18	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	0.2%
19	Storyblok Linz, Austria An enterprise-grade headless content management system with a visual editor. Free$99+/month	0.2%
20	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%
21	ExpressionEngine Ormond Beach, Florida, United States An open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source$249+	0.2%
22	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	0.1%
23	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	0.1%
24	Orchard Core Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, modular content management system and application framework built on ASP.NET Core that allows multiple sites to run from a single installation and supports both traditional and headless content delivery. FreeOpen source	0.1%
25	Finalsite Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States A cloud-based community relationship management platform for K-12 schools that combines website management, communications, and enrollment tools in a single system. $6,000+/year	0.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 CMS in other countries
- Kuwait
- 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 4,424 websites from Saudi Arabia.
We currently track the presence of 292 CMS platforms across the web.
Of these, 44 were detected on websites from Saudi Arabia.
Statistics were last calculated on September 17, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.