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Aston tech stack

Aston builds mostly with SQL, Python, Java, JavaScript. Its stack also includes Apache Kafka, Linux, PostgreSQL, MS SQL. SQL is named in 137 of the 250 job postings Aston published in the last 12 months (55%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Aston, updated Nov 10, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 10, 2026
Technologies in use
233
Postings analysed
250
Open now
59
Modernity
82 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Aston use?

SQL is named in 55% of job postings at Aston, followed by Python (33%), Java (27%), JavaScript (15%).

SQL 137 55% required in 99% · 24 open now · since Jul 2026
Python 83 33% required in 92% · 11 open now · since Jul 2026
Java 67 27% required in 100% · 17 open now · since Jul 2026
JavaScript 37 15% required in 89% · 12 open now · since Jul 2026
C# 25 10% required in 84% · since Aug 2026
1C 18 7% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
C++ 18 7% required in 89% · since Sep 2026
Kotlin 17 7% required in 88% · since Sep 2026
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TypeScript16
Bash15
Node JS12
Ruby7
Scala7
Go3
Sass2
Swift2
PowerShell2
COBOL1
Objective-C1
PHP1
Rust1
Assembly1
Groovy1

What frameworks and libraries does Aston use?

Selenium is named in 12% of job postings at Aston, followed by TestNG (9%), JUnit (8%), Hadoop (8%).

Selenium 29 12% required in 100% · 9 open now · since Aug 2026
TestNG 22 9% required in 100% · 9 open now · since Aug 2026
JUnit 21 8% required in 100% · 8 open now · since Aug 2026
Hadoop 19 8% required in 84% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
Spring Framework 18 7% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
React.js 16 6% required in 88% · 5 open now · since Jul 2026
LangChain 13 5% required in 85% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
Hibernate 11 4% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
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Vue.js11
FastAPI10
Pytest6
Spring Boot6
Flask5
Pandas4
Appium3
LangGraph3
Mockito3
NumPy3
Pydantic3
Scikit-learn3
LightGBM3
LlamaIndex3
XGBoost3
MLlib3
Bootstrap2
Celery2
Metasploit2
Playwright2
React Native2
Statsmodels2
CatBoost2
OpenTelemetry2
Transformers2
ASP.NET Core1
Aiohttp1
Angular1
Asyncio1
Combine1
Dask1
Diesel1

And 19 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does Aston use?

PostgreSQL is named in 18% of job postings at Aston, followed by MS SQL (14%), MySQL (5%), Redis (5%).

PostgreSQL 45 18% required in 96% · 9 open now · since Jul 2026
MS SQL 34 14% required in 94% · 6 open now · since Aug 2026
MySQL 13 5% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
Redis 13 5% required in 92% · 4 open now · since Aug 2026
ClickHouse 9 4% required in 89% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
Greenplum 8 3% required in 75% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
OpenSearch 5 2% required in 80% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
ElasticSearch 5 2% required in 40% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
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Qdrant4
Weaviate3
Vertica2
Apache Iceberg2
Neo4j2
Google BigQuery1
Memcached1
Pinecone1
Teradata1

What cloud and platforms does Aston use?

Apache Kafka is named in 24% of job postings at Aston, followed by Linux (20%), Kubernetes (14%), Power BI (9%).

Apache Kafka 59 24% required in 93% · 5 open now · since Jul 2026
Linux 50 20% required in 94% · 12 open now · since Aug 2026
Kubernetes 36 14% required in 72% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
Power BI 22 9% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
RabbitMQ 14 6% required in 79% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
Azure 13 5% required in 85% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
Spark 12 5% required in 83% · since Jul 2026
Grafana 9 4% required in 67% · 4 open now · since Sep 2026
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Postman8
.NET7
OpenAI7
Amazon S37
GitLab6
Airflow5
Windows5
OpenShift5
Figma4
GitLab CI3
Kibana3
AWS3
MLFlow3
Burp Suite2
Erwin2
Mend2
Snyk2
Superset2
Bitbucket2
Hugging Face2
Kubeflow2
Unix2
vLLM2
Active Directory2
GCP2
LDAP1
Langfuse1
Ollama1
QlikSense1
SIEM1
Tableau1
TeamCity1

And 7 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Aston use?

Git is named in 35% of job postings at Aston, followed by Docker (18%), Rest API (11%), Microsoft Excel (10%).

Git 87 35% required in 90% · 13 open now · since Jul 2026
Docker 46 18% required in 85% · 7 open now · since Jul 2026
Rest API 28 11% required in 96% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
Microsoft Excel 26 10% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Sep 2026
Jenkins 19 8% required in 84% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
CircleCI 10 4% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
Maven 10 4% required in 90% · since Sep 2026
pySpark 8 3% required in 100% · since Sep 2026
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WebSockets6
Swagger6
Prometheus5
JMeter5
Ansible4
Jaeger3
Nginx3
Model Context Protocol3
Terraform3
Zabbix3
Acunetix2
Binary Ninja2
Docker Compose2
Ghidra2
Helm2
IDA Pro2
Keycloak2
OWASP Dependency-Check2
Tcpdump2
Vite2
WinDbg2
Wireshark2
gRPC2
Logstash2
MinIO2
Gatling2
Alertmanager1
Argo Workflows1
ArgoCD1
Babel1
ESLint1
External Secrets1

And 14 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Aston use?

LLM is named in 8% of job postings at Aston, followed by YandexGPT (2%), ChatGPT (<1%), DeepSeek (<1%).

LLM 20 8% required in 90% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
YandexGPT 5 2% required in 100% · since Aug 2026
ChatGPT 1 <1% required in 100% · since Oct 2026
DeepSeek 1 <1% required in 100% · since Oct 2026
LoRA 1 <1% optional · since Sep 2026
PEFT 1 <1% optional · since Sep 2026

Which engineering practices does Aston ask for?

CI/CD is named in 18% of job postings at Aston, followed by SOAP (8%), RAG (7%), AI Agents (3%).

CI/CD 46 18% required in 87% · 11 open now · since Jul 2026
SOAP 20 8% required in 95% · 7 open now · since Jul 2026
RAG 18 7% required in 89% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
AI Agents 8 3% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
Machine Learning 7 3% required in 71% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
ETL/ELT 7 3% required in 57% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
NLP 3 1% required in 100% · since Aug 2026
Fine-tuning 3 1% required in 67% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
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Agentic Workflows2
SLI/SLO/SLA2
Gitflow2
Red Teaming2
Blue-Green Deployment1
DNS1
Dependency Injection1
Function Calling1
GitOps1
Hybrid Search1
MVVM1
Reranking1
Structured Outputs1
TCP/IP1
Time Series1
VIPER1
AIOps1
PKI1
eBPF1

What does each Aston team work with?

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

Analytics

55 postings
SQL36
Python19
Microsoft Excel12
JavaScript11
Rest API10
Apache Kafka9

QA

51 postings
Java40
SQL38
Selenium28
TestNG22
JUnit19
MS SQL10

Backend

32 postings
Apache Kafka26
Git26
Java24
SQL22
Linux18
C#17

Data Science

26 postings
SQL25
Python20
Power BI14
Hadoop13
pySpark8
Spark7

Frontend

22 postings
Git22
JavaScript21
React.js13
TypeScript13
Node JS11
Vue.js11

DevOps

22 postings
Linux20
Docker12
Bash11
Git11
Jenkins11
MS SQL11

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How much does Aston pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Aston postings with stated pay: $8.6k across 57 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Linux32$9.7k+13%
Python31$9.9k+16%
SQL25$8.6k0%
Java16$8.6k0%
Spring Framework15$8.6k0%
Apache Kafka14$8.6k0%
Kubernetes14$8.6k0%
C#14$8.6k0%
C++14$8.6k0%
Kotlin14$8.6k0%

How is the Aston 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
MinIOOct 2026
GoOct 2026
AnsibleOct 2026
TerraformOct 2026
HelmOct 2026
SLI/SLO/SLAOct 2026
BootstrapOct 2026
CeleryOct 2026

How modern is the Aston stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 82/100

Aston scores 82 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: 6; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the Aston stack in its industry?

Share of the 7,519 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

SQL62%
Python61%
Java42%
Apache Kafka26%
Linux38%
PostgreSQL43%
JavaScript66%
Kubernetes44%
MS SQL18%
Selenium14%

What sets Aston apart

TestNG4%
ClickHouse4%
Greenplum1%
YandexGPT0%
Qdrant3%

Questions about the Aston tech stack

What programming languages does Aston use?

The languages named in Aston job postings are SQL (55%), Python (33%), Java (27%), JavaScript (15%), C# (10%), as a share of the 250 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Aston use Selenium?

Yes. Selenium is named in 29 of 250 job postings (12%) and required in 29 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Aston use?

The cloud and platforms named in Aston job postings are Apache Kafka (59), Linux (50), Kubernetes (36) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Analytics job at Aston?

Analytics postings at Aston most often require SQL (36), Python (19), Microsoft Excel (12), JavaScript (11), out of 55 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Aston tech stack changing?

Yes. MinIO, Go, Ansible, Terraform first appeared in Aston job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Aston tech stack?

Aston scores 82 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: 6; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the Aston tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Aston publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 250 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Nov 10, 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, "Aston tech stack: 233 technologies from 250 job postings", as of Nov 10, 2026. https://alion.io/company/aston/technologies

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