⚡ User Interface Frameworks in the United Kingdom

User Interface (UI) frameworks are libraries of code, design elements, and components that help web developers create user interfaces with consistent structure and behavior.

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 research, user interface frameworks are used on 45.5% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 171K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top UI frameworks in the United Kingdom in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Bootstrap with a substantial share of 60.2%, followed by jQuery UI with 36.9% and Tailwind CSS with 10.8%.

Bootstrap 60.2%
jQuery UI 36.9%
Tailwind CSS 10.8%
Foundation 3.9%
UIKit 2%
AMP 1.7%
Bulma 1.2%
Radix UI 0.4%
Material UI 0.3%
Materialize 0.3%
Headless UI 0.2%
Pure CSS 0.2%
Tachyons 0.2%
Angular Material 0.2%
W3.CSS 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. UIKit ^(-1)
8. Radix UI ^(-1)
9. Material UI ^(-1)
11. Headless UI ^(-1)
12. Pure CSS ^(-4)
13. Tachyons ^(-1)
17. GOV.UK Design System ^(-25)
19. Semantic UI ^(-1)
23. Vant ^(-5)

✨ Best UI Frameworks

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 60 UI frameworks used on sites from the United Kingdom, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Bootstrap San Francisco, California, United States An open-source framework for building responsive, mobile-first websites and web applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, originally developed at Twitter. FreeOpen source	60.2%
2	jQuery UI San Francisco, California, United States A curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. FreeOpen source	36.9%
3	Tailwind CSS Kitchener, Ontario, Canada An open-source utility-first framework that provides low-level CSS classes for building user interfaces directly in markup. FreeOpen source$149+	10.8%
4	Foundation Campbell, California, United States An open-source responsive framework that provides a customizable grid system, a library of UI components, HTML templates, and JavaScript plugins. FreeOpen source	3.9%
5	UIKit Hamburg, Germany A lightweight and modular front-end framework. FreeOpen source	2%
6	AMP San Francisco, California, United States An open-source HTML framework originally created by Google for building lightweight web pages optimized for fast loading on mobile devices. FreeOpen source	1.7%
7	Bulma London, United Kingdom An open-source modular CSS framework based on Flexbox. FreeOpen source	1.2%
8	Radix UI San Francisco, California, United States An open-source component library that provides low-level, unstyled interface primitives for building accessible user interfaces and design systems in web applications. FreeOpen source	0.4%
9	Material UI Paris, France An open-source React component library that implements Google's Material Design. FreeOpen source$180+/developer/year	0.3%
10	Materialize Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States A responsive CSS framework based on Google's Material Design guidelines. FreeOpen source	0.3%
11	Headless UI Kitchener, Ontario, Canada An open-source library of unstyled, fully accessible UI components designed for React and Vue applications, with close integration with Tailwind CSS. FreeOpen source	0.2%
12	Pure CSS New York, United States A lightweight, responsive CSS framework developed by Yahoo for building fast and minimal web interfaces. FreeOpen source	0.2%
13	Tachyons Boise, Idaho, United States A lightweight, functional CSS framework that enables the creation of fast, responsive, and accessible web interfaces without writing custom CSS. FreeOpen source	0.2%
14	Angular Material Mountain View, California, United States A library of UI components for Angular that implements Google's Material Design specification. FreeOpen source	0.2%
15	W3.CSS Sandnes, Norway An open-source, pure CSS framework developed by the W3Schools team, designed for building responsive websites without JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.2%
16	Spectre.css Shanghai, China A lightweight, responsive CSS framework designed for faster and extensible development. FreeOpen source	0.2%
17	GOV.UK Design System London, United Kingdom An open-source design system that provides styles, components, and patterns to help UK government teams build consistent, user-centered digital services. FreeOpen source	0.2%
18	Kendo UI Burlington, Massachusetts, United States A commercial bundle of four JavaScript UI libraries built natively for jQuery, Angular, React, and Vue. FreeOpen source$799+/year	0.2%
19	Semantic UI New York, United States An open-source component framework that helps developers create responsive layouts using human-friendly CSS class names. FreeOpen source	0.1%
20	MDB Warsaw, Poland A UI toolkit that combines Bootstrap with Google's Material Design guidelines. FreeOpen source€29+	0.1%
⏳	React Aria San Jose, California, United States A library of unstyled React components and hooks for building accessible user interfaces. FreeOpen source	0.09%
22	Chakra UI Manchester, United Kingdom A comprehensive library of accessible, reusable, and composable React components. FreeOpen source	0.08%
23	Vant Hangzhou, China A lightweight, customizable Vue UI library for mobile web apps. FreeOpen source	0.07%
24	Material Design Lite Mountain View, California, United States A legacy user interface framework that implements Material Design components using plain CSS, JavaScript, and HTML without external dependencies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.07%
25	Vuetify Southlake, Texas, United States An open-source, no design-skills-required UI library of beautifully handcrafted Vue components. FreeOpen source	0.05%

👉 See Also

🌎 UI Frameworks 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 171,503 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 67 UI frameworks across the web.
Of these, 60 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on August 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.