⚡ Package Managers in Germany

Package managers are tools that automate the installation, updating, and management of software dependencies in projects.

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

According to our data, package manager technologies are used on 11.4% of websites from Germany.

Statistics based on 228K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top package manager technologies in Germany in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Composer, which dominates the market with a substantial 67.8% share.
It is followed by Npm with 33.1% and Bower with 8.7%.

Composer 67.8%
Npm 33.1%
Bower 8.7%
Yarn 0.01%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Composer ^(-1)

✨ Best Package Manager Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 4 package manager technologies used on sites from Germany, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Composer An application-level dependency manager for PHP that lets developers declare, install, and update external libraries. FreeOpen source	67.8%
2	Npm San Francisco, California, United States A JavaScript package manager bundled with Node.js. Free$7+/month	33.1%
3	Bower A package manager for the web, optimized for front-end assets such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fonts, and images. FreeOpen source	8.7%
4	Yarn An open-source JavaScript package manager originally developed by Facebook, designed as a fast alternative to Npm. FreeOpen source	0.01%

👉 See Also

🌎 Package Managers 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 228,724 websites from Germany.
We currently track the presence of 4 package manager technologies across the web.
Of these, 4 were detected on websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.