⚡ Containers and Virtualization in the United Kingdom

Containerization and virtualization are technologies used to isolate computing environments from one another for more efficient and secure use of physical hardware resources.

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 statistics, containers and virtualization tools are detected on 5.8% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 183K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top containers and virtualization tools on websites in the United Kingdom in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Kubernetes, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 99% share.
It is followed by Docker with 1.1% and Amazon ECS with 0.05%.

Kubernetes 99%
Docker 1.1%
Amazon ECS 0.05%
LXC 0.05%

✨ Best Containers and Virtualization Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 4 containers and virtualization tools used on sites from the United Kingdom, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Kubernetes San Francisco, California, United States An open-source container orchestration system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications across clusters of machines. FreeOpen source	99%
2	Docker San Francisco, California, United States An open-source platform that enables developers to package, distribute, and run applications in lightweight, portable containers that include all required dependencies. Free$11+/user/month	1.1%
⏳	Amazon ECS Seattle, Washington, United States A fully managed container orchestration service that enables users to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on AWS. Free tier$0.03238+/hour	0.05%
4	LXC Armonk, New York, United States A low-level Linux container runtime that provides operating-system-level virtualization through tools, templates, APIs, and language bindings for creating and managing system containers. FreeOpen source	0.05%

👉 See Also

🌎 Containers and Virtualization 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 183,867 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 7 containers and virtualization tools across the web.
Of these, 4 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on September 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.