Airbus
Defense Manufacturing · Satellite Manufacturing

Airbus tech stack

Airbus builds mostly with Python, C++, MATLAB, SQL. Its stack also includes Linux, Power BI, React.js, PyTorch. Python is named in 693 of the 2,047 job postings Airbus published in the last 12 months (34%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Airbus, updated Nov 11, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 11, 2026
Technologies in use
574
Postings analysed
2,047
Open now
1,229
Modernity
76 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Airbus use?

Python is named in 34% of job postings at Airbus, followed by C++ (10%), MATLAB (10%), SQL (9%).

Python 693 34% required in 83% · 345 open now · since Mar 2022
C++ 210 10% required in 81% · 113 open now · since Jun 2022
MATLAB 200 10% required in 76% · 100 open now · since Nov 2025
SQL 186 9% required in 82% · 103 open now · since Mar 2022
JavaScript 165 8% required in 63% · 96 open now · since Mar 2022
SAS 155 8% required in 78% · 67 open now · since Jul 2026
Java 118 6% required in 86% · 54 open now · since May 2022
C# 62 3% required in 81% · 36 open now · since Jun 2022
Show all (42)
TypeScript62
ABAP54
Bash47
Node JS38
PowerShell29
VHDL19
PHP14
Go12
C12
Fortran11
Rust9
Ada8
Apex7
Visual Basic7
Perl6
Sass6
Embedded C6
Kotlin5
Ruby4
Groovy4
Scala4
Verilog4
1C2
MicroPython2
SPSS2
Assembly2
GLSL1
Swift1
SystemC1
SystemVerilog1
TCL Scripting1
Julia1

And 2 more, each named in fewer postings.

What frameworks and libraries does Airbus use?

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

React.js 36 2% required in 86% · 22 open now · since Jun 2026
PyTorch 36 2% required in 81% · 13 open now · since Jun 2026
Angular 34 2% required in 85% · 19 open now · since Jun 2022
Pandas 31 2% required in 94% · 12 open now · since Mar 2022
TensorFlow 29 1% required in 86% · 9 open now · since Jun 2026
Qt 25 1% required in 64% · 14 open now · since Jun 2026
Scikit-learn 21 1% required in 76% · 8 open now · since Jun 2026
LangChain 19 1% required in 84% · 6 open now · since Jun 2026
Show all (104)
NumPy16
Spring Boot15
Vue.js12
OpenCV11
FastAPI11
LlamaIndex10
Selenium10
Streamlit9
ASP.NET Core8
SciPy8
Flask7
Hibernate7
Pytest6
Entity Framework Core6
JQuery5
Matplotlib5
ROS5
Keras5
ROS25
Transformers5
Redux5
Django5
Mistral SDK4
SAP UI54
Robot Framework4
Unreal Engine4
OpenGL4
Express3
JUnit3
OpenTelemetry3
Polars3
Quarkus3

And 64 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does Airbus use?

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

PostgreSQL 33 2% required in 73% · 24 open now · since Jun 2026
MySQL 18 1% required in 83% · 10 open now · since Jun 2026
SAP HANA 15 1% required in 80% · 11 open now · since Mar 2022
MS SQL 13 1% required in 69% · 10 open now · since Mar 2022
Oracle 12 1% required in 75% · 8 open now · since Jun 2026
DynamoDB 9 <1% required in 89% · 4 open now · since Aug 2026
ElasticSearch 7 <1% required in 86% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
SAP BW 7 <1% required in 86% · 5 open now · since Jul 2026
Show all (32)
Google BigQuery7
Qdrant6
Neo4j5
Pinecone4
OpenSearch4
MariaDB3
Snowflake3
Amazon Aurora3
Chroma2
CouchDB2
Firestore2
InfluxDB2
SQLite2
Redis2
Amazon Neptune1
Apache Iceberg1
Cassandra1
ClickHouse1
Couchbase1
Delta Lake1
DuckDB1
Milvus1
Trino1
Google Cloud Spanner1

What cloud and platforms does Airbus use?

Linux is named in 9% of job postings at Airbus, followed by Power BI (6%), AWS (5%), Kubernetes (5%).

Linux 184 9% required in 78% · 96 open now · since Jun 2022
Power BI 116 6% required in 95% · 85 open now · since Mar 2026
AWS 111 5% required in 88% · 59 open now · since Sep 2025
Kubernetes 107 5% required in 77% · 59 open now · since May 2026
Windows 103 5% required in 78% · 64 open now · since Jun 2022
GCP 69 3% required in 81% · 41 open now · since Sep 2025
Spark 48 2% required in 46% · 23 open now · since Mar 2022
GitHub 47 2% required in 68% · 27 open now · since Jun 2026
Show all (116)
GitLab40
Azure39
QlikSense34
Unix34
Looker32
OpenShift31
Tableau30
GitLab CI30
Grafana26
Splunk26
VMWare25
SIEM23
Red Hat23
SAP BTP22
Amazon S319
Amazon ECS18
.NET18
Active Directory18
RTOS18
GitHub Actions16
SonarQube15
Amazon EC214
Vertex AI12
AWS Lambda12
Apache Kafka12
API Gateway11
Bitbucket10
Amazon EKS9
Databricks9
Amazon SageMaker8
MISP7
MLFlow7

And 76 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Airbus use?

CATIA is named in 12% of job postings at Airbus, followed by Git (7%), Docker (5%), Jenkins (4%).

CATIA 239 12% required in 83% · 172 open now · since Mar 2022
Git 141 7% required in 74% · 74 open now · since Jun 2026
Docker 106 5% required in 74% · 60 open now · since May 2026
Jenkins 91 4% required in 74% · 47 open now · since Mar 2026
Simulink 87 4% required in 80% · 38 open now · since May 2026
Microsoft Excel 83 4% required in 89% · 65 open now · since Apr 2022
Ansible 74 4% required in 85% · 46 open now · since Jun 2026
Nastran 66 3% required in 86% · 47 open now · since Nov 2022
Show all (167)
Rest API56
IBM DOORS47
Terraform38
pySpark38
Cameo Systems Modeler32
Patran28
Prometheus21
AutoCAD21
SysML19
Abaqus16
Maven15
Helm14
ARINC14
SolidWorks14
CMake13
Adobe Photoshop12
Podman12
Model Context Protocol11
CloudFormation10
MIL-STD-15539
Canva8
Link 168
Puppet8
Proxmox VE8
Wireshark8
gRPC8
CVAT7
KVM7
Copilot7
Hyper-V7
Gradle7
Blender6

And 127 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Airbus use?

Gemini is named in 4% of job postings at Airbus, followed by LLM (3%), Claude (<1%), ChatGPT (<1%).

Gemini 78 4% required in 86% · 47 open now · since Jul 2026
LLM 68 3% required in 97% · 28 open now · since Jun 2026
Claude 6 <1% required in 67% · 4 open now · since Jun 2026
ChatGPT 2 <1% required in 50% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
BERT 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
EfficientNet 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026
Gemma 1 <1% required in 100% · since Sep 2026
YOLO 1 <1% required in 100% · since Jul 2026
Show all (10)
Core ML1
Llama1

Which engineering practices does Airbus ask for?

CI/CD is named in 8% of job postings at Airbus, followed by Machine Learning (7%), Verification & Validation (7%), DO-178C (3%).

CI/CD 165 8% required in 79% · 97 open now · since Aug 2025
Machine Learning 138 7% required in 96% · 60 open now · since Mar 2022
Verification & Validation 134 7% required in 97% · 99 open now · since Jan 2022
DO-178C 70 3% required in 87% · 54 open now · since Mar 2026
MBSE 57 3% required in 89% · 45 open now · since May 2026
AI Agents 53 3% required in 100% · 25 open now · since Jun 2026
FMEA 47 2% required in 98% · 41 open now · since Jan 2026
IAM 47 2% required in 94% · 34 open now · since May 2026
Show all (100)
Prompt Engineering36
DO-16035
Computer Vision34
DO-25432
CAPA31
RAG30
Incident Management29
ETL/ELT28
ECSS25
SOAP24
TCP/IP23
Digital Twin21
NLP20
Configuration Management20
DNS19
VPN18
Wi-Fi17
Statistical Process Control17
AS910015
Anomaly Detection15
GD&T14
Fine-tuning13
PKI13
Platform Engineering13
DHCP12
Time Series12
HPC11
GitOps10
Sensor Fusion10
GMP9
Knowledge Graph8
Reinforcement Learning8

And 60 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%), StateFlow (<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 Mar 2022
StateFlow 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 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

489 postings
Python184
SAS57
Power BI54
C++43
SQL40
MATLAB38

Industrial Engineering

448 postings
CATIA120
Python89
MATLAB52
Nastran45
Simulink28
C++24

Backend

127 postings
Python53
C++47
Git33
Java28
Linux28
Jenkins23

DevOps

109 postings
Python39
Ansible26
Linux26
Kubernetes23
Jenkins21
Docker19

Analytics

84 postings
Python32
SQL26
Power BI13
SAS8
Tableau8
AWS7

Hardware

74 postings
VHDL16
RTOS11
C++10
MATLAB9
Simulink5
C#4

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How much does Airbus pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Airbus postings with stated pay: $110k across 39 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Python14$79k−28%
SQL6$64k−42%
Gemini6$42k−62%
C++5$178k+62%

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
AssemblyOct 2026
Ansys HFSSOct 2026
VeleroOct 2026
GStreamerOct 2026
Adobe After EffectsOct 2026
Adobe Premiere ProOct 2026
CMMCOct 2026
PyQtOct 2026
Rising
SAS2% → 9%
Power BI2% → 6%
Microsoft Excel1% → 5%
LLM1% → 4%
Falling
CI/CD17% → 6%
AWS13% → 4%
Linux15% → 8%
Docker11% → 4%
Jenkins10% → 3%
JavaScript13% → 7%
C++15% → 10%
TypeScript7% → 2%

How modern is the Airbus stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 76/100

Airbus 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: 10; legacy ones: 2.

How common is the Airbus stack in its industry?

Share of the 492 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Python73%
C++63%
MATLAB50%
SQL46%
Linux59%
JavaScript36%
SAS3%
Java29%
Power BI35%
AWS39%

What sets Airbus apart

SAS3%
Gemini3%
QlikSense3%
Looker4%
SAP BTP4%
SAP HANA3%

Questions about the Airbus tech stack

What programming languages does Airbus use?

The languages named in Airbus job postings are Python (34%), C++ (10%), MATLAB (10%), SQL (9%), JavaScript (8%), as a share of the 2,047 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Airbus use React.js?

Yes. React.js is named in 36 of 2,047 job postings (2%) and required in 31 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Airbus use?

The cloud and platforms named in Airbus job postings are Linux (184), Power BI (116), AWS (111) (postings in brackets).

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

Early Careers postings at Airbus most often require Python (184), SAS (57), Power BI (54), C++ (43), out of 489 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Airbus tech stack changing?

Yes. Assembly, Ansys HFSS, Velero, GStreamer first appeared in Airbus job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Airbus tech stack?

Airbus 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: 10; legacy ones: 2.

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 2,047 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Nov 11, 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: 574 technologies from 2,047 job postings", as of Nov 11, 2026. https://alion.io/company/airbus/technologies

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