Adobe tech stack

Adobe builds mostly with Python, JavaScript, SQL, TypeScript. Its stack also includes AWS, Azure, React.js, PyTorch. Python is named in 203 of the 622 job postings Adobe published in the last 12 months (33%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Adobe, updated Sep 27, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 27, 2026
Technologies in use
408
Postings analysed
622
Open now
337
Modernity
76 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Adobe use?

Python is named in 33% of job postings at Adobe, followed by JavaScript (23%), SQL (17%), TypeScript (12%).

Python 203 33% required in 93% · 117 open now · since Mar 2026
JavaScript 145 23% required in 78% · 60 open now · since Mar 2026
SQL 106 17% required in 90% · 71 open now · since Mar 2026
TypeScript 77 12% required in 95% · 26 open now · since Mar 2026
Java 69 11% required in 94% · 33 open now · since Mar 2026
Node JS 52 8% required in 94% · 18 open now · since Mar 2026
C++ 51 8% required in 90% · 30 open now · since Mar 2026
Go 25 4% required in 96% · 13 open now · since Apr 2026
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PHP22
Scala17
Swift11
Kotlin11
Rust9
PowerShell8
Objective-C5
Ruby5
C#3
Perl3
Apex2
ABAP1
Elixir1
Groovy1
HLSL1
Sass1
Slang1
WGSL1
YARA1
Bash1
C1
MATLAB1

What frameworks and libraries does Adobe use?

React.js is named in 12% of job postings at Adobe, followed by PyTorch (8%), LangChain (4%), TensorFlow (4%).

React.js 76 12% required in 86% · 33 open now · since Mar 2026
PyTorch 48 8% required in 94% · 30 open now · since Mar 2026
LangChain 27 4% required in 78% · 18 open now · since Mar 2026
TensorFlow 25 4% required in 92% · 14 open now · since Mar 2026
React Native 15 2% required in 100% · 10 open now · since May 2026
Hadoop 13 2% required in 85% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
AutoGen 13 2% required in 69% · 10 open now · since Mar 2026
LangGraph 11 2% required in 55% · 7 open now · since Apr 2026
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CUDA10
Playwright10
OpenTelemetry10
LlamaIndex9
Lit9
Ray9
Triton9
Spring Boot8
CrewAI8
Scikit-learn8
Flink8
Cypress7
FSDP7
FastAPI6
JAX6
SwiftUI6
Jest6
PyTorch C++6
Flask5
UIKit5
NumPy5
Transformers5
Pandas5
Redux4
Spring Framework4
pgvector4
FAISS4
JQuery4
Angular3
Hibernate3
Svelte3
Metal3

And 42 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does Adobe use?

PostgreSQL is named in 3% of job postings at Adobe, followed by Pinecone (2%), Snowflake (2%), ElasticSearch (1%).

PostgreSQL 17 3% required in 71% · 10 open now · since May 2026
Pinecone 11 2% required in 91% · 6 open now · since Mar 2026
Snowflake 10 2% required in 70% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
ElasticSearch 9 1% required in 89% · 6 open now · since Mar 2026
MySQL 9 1% required in 78% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
Redis 9 1% required in 67% · 3 open now · since May 2026
Weaviate 8 1% required in 88% · 6 open now · since Mar 2026
DynamoDB 7 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
Show all (36)
Milvus7
Delta Lake7
Azure Cosmos DB5
Cassandra5
HBase5
Apache Iceberg5
Aerospike3
Apache Hudi3
Neo4j3
OpenSearch3
ClickHouse2
FoundationDB2
MongoDB2
Amazon Aurora2
Amazon DocumentDB1
Amazon Neptune1
Amazon Redshift1
Azure SQL Database1
DuckDB1
Firestore1
LanceDB1
MS SQL1
MariaDB1
Memgraph1
Presto1
Qdrant1
SAP HANA1
Memcached1

What cloud and platforms does Adobe use?

AWS is named in 22% of job postings at Adobe, followed by Azure (18%), Kubernetes (14%), Databricks (8%).

AWS 137 22% required in 88% · 71 open now · since Mar 2026
Azure 115 18% required in 92% · 64 open now · since Mar 2026
Kubernetes 85 14% required in 78% · 44 open now · since Mar 2026
Databricks 49 8% required in 94% · 31 open now · since Mar 2026
Power BI 49 8% required in 73% · 34 open now · since Mar 2026
GCP 47 8% required in 85% · 24 open now · since Mar 2026
Spark 44 7% required in 86% · 29 open now · since Mar 2026
Tableau 43 7% required in 67% · 25 open now · since Mar 2026
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Figma33
Apache Kafka33
Splunk33
Windows24
GitHub24
OpenAI23
Grafana22
New Relic16
Linux13
CUDA Toolkit11
Datadog9
Hugging Face8
GitHub Actions8
Postman7
Anthropic6
LDAP6
WebAssembly6
vLLM6
AWS Bedrock5
Amazon EC25
Amazon S35
LangSmith5
Microsoft Entra ID4
Okta4
SIEM4
MLFlow4
GitLab3
Unix3
iOS SDK3
AWS Lambda3
Amazon Kinesis3
Amazon SageMaker3

And 42 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Adobe use?

Docker is named in 11% of job postings at Adobe, followed by Rest API (10%), Claude Code (7%), Cursor (6%).

Docker 66 11% required in 89% · 33 open now · since Mar 2026
Rest API 64 10% required in 94% · 36 open now · since Mar 2026
Claude Code 44 7% required in 89% · 18 open now · since Apr 2026
Cursor 39 6% required in 90% · 15 open now · since Mar 2026
Model Context Protocol 33 5% required in 79% · 21 open now · since Apr 2026
Git 29 5% required in 93% · 12 open now · since Mar 2026
Copilot 28 5% required in 86% · 14 open now · since Apr 2026
OpenAI Codex 21 3% required in 90% · 10 open now · since Jun 2026
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Jenkins19
Prometheus17
Terraform15
Microsoft Excel13
GraphQL12
TensorRT11
WebGPU10
npm6
ONNX6
ComfyUI5
pySpark5
CloudFormation5
A2A5
Apache HTTP Server5
ArgoCD5
Chef5
Bazel4
Cinema 4D4
CircleCI4
WebSockets4
Loki3
Semantic Kernel3
Vite3
Webpack3
dbt3
Ansible3
Babel2
Drupal2
Maya2
Sketch2
WordPress2
Canva2

And 39 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Adobe use?

LLM is named in 21% of job postings at Adobe, followed by Claude (9%), ChatGPT (2%), PEFT (1%).

LLM 130 21% required in 82% · 68 open now · since Mar 2026
Claude 59 9% required in 90% · 19 open now · since Mar 2026
ChatGPT 13 2% required in 92% · 5 open now · since May 2026
PEFT 7 1% required in 71% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Gemini 5 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
LoRA 5 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Core ML 4 1% required in 50% · 4 open now · since Mar 2026
CLIP 3 <1% required in 100% · since Mar 2026
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VLM3
Stable Diffusion3
QLoRA2
Midjourney2
Mistral2
ControlNet1
DALL-E1
Sora1
BERT1

Which engineering practices does Adobe ask for?

AI Agents is named in 35% of job postings at Adobe, followed by Machine Learning (18%), CI/CD (17%), RAG (11%).

AI Agents 215 35% required in 93% · 114 open now · since Mar 2026
Machine Learning 115 18% required in 86% · 65 open now · since Mar 2026
CI/CD 108 17% required in 88% · 49 open now · since Mar 2026
RAG 71 11% required in 80% · 43 open now · since Mar 2026
Prompt Engineering 40 6% required in 93% · 24 open now · since Mar 2026
Multimodal AI 39 6% required in 74% · 22 open now · since Mar 2026
Function Calling 35 6% required in 89% · 19 open now · since Mar 2026
Agentic Workflows 34 5% required in 94% · 25 open now · since May 2026
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Fine-tuning32
LLM Guardrails30
A/B Testing29
Tool Use28
Platform Engineering26
Diffusion Models20
Computer Vision17
Embeddings17
ETL/ELT15
Multi-Agent Systems15
Human-in-the-Loop14
Web Components14
Anomaly Detection14
SLI/SLO/SLA13
Recommender Systems11
Hallucination10
Incident Management10
NLP10
Structured Outputs8
Quantization8
Knowledge Graph8
Semantic Search8
Semantic Search8
Feature Store8
Digital Twin7
Reinforcement Learning7
LLM Evaluation6
Self-Healing6
FinOps6
Synthetic Data6
IAM6
GitOps5

And 42 more, each named in fewer postings.

What does each Adobe team work with?

The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.

AI/ML

105 postings
Python65
LLM38
PyTorch35
AWS31
Azure26
Docker19

Backend

98 postings
JavaScript39
Python36
AWS35
React.js29
TypeScript29
Java27

Product

64 postings
LLM10
Databricks6
Model Context Protocol6
SQL6
Claude Code5
Claude4

Solutions

38 postings
Rest API10
Azure8
React Native8
JavaScript7
React.js6
Copilot5

Data Science

35 postings
Python29
SQL25
Databricks16
Azure14
AWS12
Spark11

Design

28 postings
Figma21
Cursor7
Claude5
C++2
Sketch2
TypeScript2

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How much does Adobe pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Adobe postings with stated pay: $261k across 398 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Python141$261k0%
LLM89$265k+1%
AWS78$265k+1%
JavaScript77$258k−1%
SQL69$244k−7%
Azure65$265k+1%
Kubernetes50$265k+1%
TypeScript46$265k+1%
React.js45$261k0%
PyTorch38$302k+15%

How is the Adobe stack changing?

Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.

First appeared
Chain-of-ThoughtSep 2026
HibernateAug 2026
JUnitAug 2026
Babylon.jsAug 2026
Three.JSAug 2026
Active DirectoryAug 2026
API GatewayAug 2026
DrupalAug 2026
Rising
SQL11% → 18%
Docker7% → 11%
Node JS5% → 9%
Git2% → 5%
Jenkins0% → 3%
Falling
Prompt Engineering13% → 5%
Fine-tuning10% → 4%
Go9% → 3%
Cursor11% → 6%
Apache Kafka9% → 4%
Splunk10% → 5%
Tool Use9% → 4%
Grafana8% → 3%
Not named for 6 months
Cohere SDKMar 2026
MistralMar 2026
AkkaMar 2026
MongoDBMar 2026

How modern is the Adobe stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 76/100

Adobe scores 76 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 17; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the Adobe stack in its industry?

Share of the 410 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Python41%
JavaScript48%
AWS35%
LLM26%
Azure26%
SQL39%
Kubernetes32%
TypeScript38%
React.js33%
Java22%

What sets Adobe apart

Splunk4%
Scala4%
New Relic2%
AutoGen1%
Hadoop2%
CUDA Toolkit2%
LangGraph4%
Pinecone2%
CUDA2%
Lit0%

Adobe products in its job postings

Postings at Adobe name its own products. They describe what the company makes, so they are left out of the stack above.

Adobe Photoshop61
Adobe Premiere Pro4
Adobe Illustrator1
Adobe InDesign2
Magento15
Adobe After Effects17
Adobe XD3

Questions about the Adobe tech stack

What programming languages does Adobe use?

The languages named in Adobe job postings are Python (33%), JavaScript (23%), SQL (17%), TypeScript (12%), Java (11%), as a share of the 622 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Adobe use React.js?

Yes. React.js is named in 76 of 622 job postings (12%) and required in 65 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Adobe use?

The cloud and platforms named in Adobe job postings are AWS (137), Azure (115), Kubernetes (85) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a AI/ML job at Adobe?

AI/ML postings at Adobe most often require Python (65), LLM (38), PyTorch (35), AWS (31), out of 105 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Adobe tech stack changing?

Yes. Chain-of-Thought, Hibernate, JUnit, Babylon.js first appeared in Adobe job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Adobe tech stack?

Adobe scores 76 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 17; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the Adobe tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Adobe publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 622 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Sep 27, 2026.

Method and citation

Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count

Alion, "Adobe tech stack: 408 technologies from 622 job postings", as of Sep 27, 2026. https://alion.io/company/adobe/technologies

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