⚡ Content Management Systems in South Africa

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

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 54.9% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 91.9% share.
It is followed by Joomla with 3.3% and Drupal with 1.6%.

WordPress 91.9%
Joomla 3.3%
Drupal 1.6%
K2 0.4%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.4%
HubSpot CMS 0.3%
DNN 0.3%
Craft 0.2%
Sanity 0.2%
Refinery 0.1%
October CMS 0.1%
Microsoft SharePoint 0.1%
Contentful 0.1%
Amplience 0.1%
Other 0.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. K2 ^(-7)
5. Adobe Experience Manager ^(-2)
7. DNN ^(-5)
9. Sanity ^(-6)
10. Refinery ^(-157)
11. October CMS ^(-2)
12. Microsoft SharePoint ^(-27)
14. Amplience ^(-31)
15. Open Journal Systems ^(-17)
16. Strapi ^(-12)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 68 CMS platforms used on sites from South Africa, 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	91.9%
2	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	3.3%
3	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	1.6%
4	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and enhances the default article system. FreeOpen source	0.4%
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	0.4%
6	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%
7	DNN Austin, Texas, United States A free and open-source content management system based on .NET and MS SQL Server. FreeOpen source	0.3%
8	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%
9	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%
10	Refinery A content management system based on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source	0.1%
11	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%
12	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	0.1%
13	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%
14	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%
15	Open Journal Systems Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Open source software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals. FreeOpen source	0.09%
16	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	0.09%
17	Plone Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source enterprise content management system written in Python and JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.08%
18	MODX Dallas, Texas, United States An open-source content management platform and PHP application framework focused on performance and security. FreeOpen source$39+/month	0.07%
19	ExpressionEngine Ormond Beach, Florida, United States An open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source$249+	0.06%
20	HCL Digital Experience Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India A web portal solution that provides an integration framework for enterprise information systems. Free$$$	0.06%
21	Bloomreach Experience Manager Mountain View, California, United States A Java-based digital experience platform available under open source and enterprise licenses. FreeOpen source$100,000+/year	0.05%
22	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	0.04%
23	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	0.04%
24	Kentico Brno, Czech Republic A commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. $1,050+/month	0.04%
25	Osclass Chtelnica, Slovakia An open-source classifieds script used to create, manage, and scale classifieds websites. FreeOpen source	0.04%

👉 See Also

🌎 CMS in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,795 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.