Airbus tech stack

Airbus builds mostly with Python, C++, MATLAB, SQL. Its stack also includes Linux, AWS, PyTorch, PostgreSQL. Python is named in 346 of the 827 job postings Airbus published in the last 12 months (42%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Airbus, updated Sep 27, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 27, 2026
Technologies in use
454
Postings analysed
827
Open now
575
Modernity
77 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Airbus use?

Python is named in 42% of job postings at Airbus, followed by C++ (14%), MATLAB (13%), SQL (11%).

Python 346 42% required in 80% · 239 open now · since Jun 2026
C++ 113 14% required in 78% · 81 open now · since Jun 2026
MATLAB 108 13% required in 77% · 78 open now · since Jun 2026
SQL 94 11% required in 79% · 64 open now · since Jun 2026
JavaScript 85 10% required in 69% · 63 open now · since Jun 2026
Java 67 8% required in 85% · 50 open now · since Jun 2026
SAS 51 6% required in 76% · 35 open now · since Jul 2026
ABAP 39 5% required in 74% · 24 open now · since Jun 2026
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TypeScript38
C#29
Bash28
PowerShell20
Node JS16
Go10
VHDL8
C7
Fortran7
PHP6
Apex6
Visual Basic6
Rust5
Ada5
Sass5
Perl4
Scala4
Groovy3
Embedded C2
Ruby2
Kotlin2
1C1
Assembly1
MicroPython1
SystemC1
SystemVerilog1
TCL Scripting1
Verilog1
Julia1
Objective-C1

What frameworks and libraries does Airbus use?

PyTorch is named in 3% of job postings at Airbus, followed by Angular (2%), TensorFlow (2%), Pandas (2%).

PyTorch 24 3% required in 71% · 12 open now · since Jun 2026
Angular 20 2% required in 80% · 16 open now · since Jun 2026
TensorFlow 20 2% required in 80% · 12 open now · since Jun 2026
Pandas 18 2% required in 89% · 14 open now · since Jul 2026
React.js 18 2% required in 78% · 14 open now · since Jun 2026
Qt 18 2% required in 61% · 13 open now · since Jun 2026
LangChain 14 2% required in 79% · 5 open now · since Jun 2026
Scikit-learn 12 1% required in 58% · 8 open now · since Jun 2026
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NumPy10
FastAPI9
Spring Boot9
Vue.js7
PoC Library6
LlamaIndex6
OpenCV6
Selenium6
SciPy6
Streamlit6
Pytest5
Flask5
Hibernate4
JQuery4
Ray4
SAP UI54
PyTorch C++4
Unreal Engine4
Matplotlib3
Mistral SDK3
Quarkus3
TensorFlow C++3
ASP.NET Core3
Entity Framework Core3
Keras3
Nest.JS3
ROS23
Redux3
Robot Framework3
OpenGL3
Commander.js2
JUnit2

And 44 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does Airbus use?

PostgreSQL is named in 3% of job postings at Airbus, followed by MySQL (2%), SAP HANA (1%), Oracle (1%).

PostgreSQL 23 3% required in 74% · 16 open now · since Jun 2026
MySQL 13 2% required in 85% · 11 open now · since Jun 2026
SAP HANA 12 1% required in 75% · 10 open now · since Jun 2026
Oracle 9 1% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Jun 2026
MS SQL 9 1% required in 56% · 9 open now · since Jul 2026
SAP BW 6 1% required in 83% · 5 open now · since Jul 2026
Qdrant 5 1% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Aug 2026
ElasticSearch 5 1% required in 80% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
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Google BigQuery5
DynamoDB4
Neo4j4
BigQuery4
MariaDB3
Chroma2
InfluxDB2
Pinecone2
Snowflake2
OpenSearch2
Amazon Aurora1
Amazon Neptune1
Apache Iceberg1
CouchDB1
Delta Lake1
DuckDB1
Milvus1
Trino1
Google Cloud Spanner1
Redis1
SQLite1

What cloud and platforms does Airbus use?

Linux is named in 13% of job postings at Airbus, followed by AWS (8%), Kubernetes (8%), Windows (7%).

Linux 104 13% required in 71% · 69 open now · since Jun 2026
AWS 67 8% required in 85% · 39 open now · since Jun 2026
Kubernetes 66 8% required in 82% · 43 open now · since Jun 2026
Windows 57 7% required in 75% · 37 open now · since Jun 2026
GCP 39 5% required in 72% · 25 open now · since Jun 2026
GitHub 30 4% required in 67% · 25 open now · since Jun 2026
Power BI 29 4% required in 90% · 19 open now · since Jul 2026
Spark 27 3% required in 63% · 18 open now · since Jun 2026
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GitLab25
OpenShift22
Azure22
GitLab CI20
Splunk19
Grafana18
Unix17
QlikSense16
Amazon S316
Red Hat14
SAP BTP14
VMWare14
Tableau13
SIEM12
Amazon EC212
GitHub Actions12
RTOS11
SonarQube11
.NET10
Amazon ECS9
Apache Kafka9
API Gateway8
AWS Lambda7
Bitbucket7
Looker6
Active Directory6
MuleSoft6
Vertex AI6
Amazon EKS5
MLFlow5
SAP Fiori5
Amazon SageMaker4

And 65 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Airbus use?

Git is named in 9% of job postings at Airbus, followed by Docker (8%), Jenkins (7%), Ansible (6%).

Git 73 9% required in 75% · 54 open now · since Jun 2026
Docker 67 8% required in 82% · 44 open now · since Jun 2026
Jenkins 60 7% required in 77% · 41 open now · since Jun 2026
Ansible 51 6% required in 82% · 37 open now · since Jun 2026
Simulink 51 6% required in 78% · 38 open now · since Jun 2026
Rest API 29 4% required in 79% · 21 open now · since Jul 2026
Microsoft Excel 28 3% required in 93% · 23 open now · since Jul 2026
Terraform 24 3% required in 71% · 19 open now · since Jun 2026
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pySpark20
Prometheus16
Aider12
Helm12
AutoCAD12
SolidWorks10
Maven9
Podman8
CMake8
Model Context Protocol7
CVAT6
Puppet5
Proxmox VE5
gRPC5
Gradle5
JFrog Artifactory4
WebSockets4
Claude Code4
CloudFormation4
Conan4
Google ADK4
Wireshark4
Hyper-V4
CAPA3
Chef3
GCC3
Vault3
Zabbix3
Copilot3
DVC3
ArgoCD3
TensorRT3

And 81 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Airbus use?

LLM is named in 3% of job postings at Airbus, followed by Gemini (3%), Claude (<1%), Gemma (<1%).

LLM 27 3% required in 93% · 16 open now · since Jun 2026
Gemini 26 3% required in 85% · 17 open now · since Jul 2026
Claude 4 <1% required in 75% · 1 open now · since Jun 2026
Gemma 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
YOLO 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
ChatGPT 1 <1% optional · since Jul 2026
Core ML 1 <1% optional · since Aug 2026
Llama 1 <1% optional · since Aug 2026

Which engineering practices does Airbus ask for?

CI/CD is named in 12% of job postings at Airbus, followed by Machine Learning (8%), SLI/SLO/SLA (4%), AI Agents (4%).

CI/CD 103 12% required in 80% · 69 open now · since Jun 2026
Machine Learning 65 8% required in 92% · 41 open now · since Jun 2026
SLI/SLO/SLA 36 4% required in 83% · 22 open now · since Jun 2026
AI Agents 32 4% required in 100% · 19 open now · since Jun 2026
IAM 27 3% required in 93% · 19 open now · since Jun 2026
Computer Vision 20 2% required in 75% · 10 open now · since Jun 2026
RAG 17 2% required in 82% · 9 open now · since Jul 2026
ETL/ELT 17 2% required in 71% · 8 open now · since Jun 2026
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SOAP15
Incident Management15
Prompt Engineering12
Configuration Management12
TCP/IP12
VPN11
Digital Twin11
NLP9
Wi-Fi9
Time Series Forecasting9
Edge AI8
Reinforcement Learning8
DNS7
Anomaly Detection7
PKI6
HPC6
Knowledge Graph5
DHCP4
FinOps4
GitOps4
Modularization4
Self-Healing4
Platform Engineering4
EU AI Act3
MPLS3
Multi-Agent Systems3
Synthetic Data3
VLAN3
Master Data Management3
Agentic Workflows2
BGP2
Fine-tuning2

And 27 more, each named in fewer postings.

What other technologies does Airbus use?

CDS Views is named in <1% of job postings at Airbus, followed by ABAP on HANA (<1%).

CDS Views 4 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jun 2026
ABAP on HANA 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026

What does each Airbus team work with?

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

Early Careers

145 postings
Python63
MATLAB17
C++15
SAS14
LLM11
Java10

Industrial Engineering

140 postings
Python46
MATLAB34
Simulink17
C++13
Gemini6
Linux5

Backend

70 postings
Python29
C++28
Git18
Jenkins15
TypeScript15
AWS13

DevOps

60 postings
Python28
Ansible18
Linux17
Jenkins16
Kubernetes16
Docker13

Analytics

42 postings
SQL11
ABAP7
AWS5
Power BI5
GCP4
JavaScript4

Enterprise Apps

41 postings
ABAP21
SQL9
SAP BTP7
JavaScript6
SAP HANA5
CDS Views3

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How is the Airbus 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
KiCadSep 2026
LocalAISep 2026
KibanaSep 2026
MariaDBSep 2026
Fusion 360Sep 2026
CAPASep 2026
Mistral SDKSep 2026
vLLMSep 2026
Rising
MATLAB6% → 13%
SAS0% → 6%
Java3% → 8%
Power BI0% → 4%
Rest API0% → 4%
Microsoft Excel0% → 4%
Bash0% → 4%
Gemini0% → 3%
Falling
AWS23% → 8%
CI/CD26% → 12%
Spark13% → 3%
Scikit-learn10% → 1%
SQL19% → 11%
Machine Learning16% → 8%
Azure10% → 2%
TensorFlow10% → 2%

How modern is the Airbus stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 77/100

Airbus scores 77 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: 8; legacy ones: 1.

How common is the Airbus stack in its industry?

Share of the 2,057 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Python28%
C++18%
MATLAB9%
Linux21%
SQL22%
JavaScript16%
AWS13%
Java9%
Kubernetes12%
Windows20%

What sets Airbus apart

SAS1%
ABAP2%
Spark4%
Gemini1%
OpenShift2%
Angular4%
Splunk3%
Pandas2%
Qt2%
Unix4%

Questions about the Airbus tech stack

What programming languages does Airbus use?

The languages named in Airbus job postings are Python (42%), C++ (14%), MATLAB (13%), SQL (11%), JavaScript (10%), as a share of the 827 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Airbus use PyTorch?

Yes. PyTorch is named in 24 of 827 job postings (3%) and required in 17 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Airbus use?

The cloud and platforms named in Airbus job postings are Linux (104), AWS (67), Kubernetes (66) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Early Careers job at Airbus?

Early Careers postings at Airbus most often require Python (63), MATLAB (17), C++ (15), SAS (14), out of 145 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Airbus tech stack changing?

Yes. KiCad, LocalAI, Kibana, MariaDB first appeared in Airbus job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Airbus tech stack?

Airbus scores 77 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: 8; legacy ones: 1.

How does Alion know the Airbus tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Airbus publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 827 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, "Airbus tech stack: 454 technologies from 827 job postings", as of Sep 27, 2026. https://alion.io/company/airbus/technologies

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