⚡ Package Managers in the United Kingdom

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

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 data, package manager technologies are used on 10.2% of websites from the United Kingdom.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Composer with an impressive share of 53%, followed by Npm with 47.6% and Bower with 14.6%.

Composer 53%
Npm 47.6%
Bower 14.6%
Yarn 0.09%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top technologies that are more popular in the United Kingdom 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 the United Kingdom, 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	53%
2	Npm San Francisco, California, United States A JavaScript package manager bundled with Node.js. Free$7+/month	47.6%
3	Bower A package manager for the web, optimized for front-end assets such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fonts, and images. FreeOpen source	14.6%
4	Yarn An open-source JavaScript package manager originally developed by Facebook, designed as a fast alternative to Npm. FreeOpen source	0.09%

👉 See Also

🌎 Package Managers 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.