ClickHouse tech stack

ClickHouse builds mostly with SQL, Python, TypeScript, C++. Its stack also includes AWS, Azure, PostgreSQL, React.js. AWS is named in 149 of the 308 job postings ClickHouse published in the last 12 months (48%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of ClickHouse, updated Sep 26, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 26, 2026
Technologies in use
139
Postings analysed
308
Open now
141
Modernity
78 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does ClickHouse use?

SQL is named in 34% of job postings at ClickHouse, followed by Python (30%), TypeScript (22%), C++ (21%).

SQL 106 34% required in 96% · 43 open now · since Jul 2025
Python 91 30% required in 84% · 27 open now · since Oct 2025
TypeScript 67 22% required in 94% · 21 open now · since Dec 2024
C++ 65 21% required in 97% · 20 open now · since Oct 2025
Go 64 21% required in 89% · 17 open now · since Oct 2025
JavaScript 50 16% required in 90% · 11 open now · since Dec 2024
Java 28 9% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Feb 2026
Rust 23 7% required in 74% · 4 open now · since Jan 2026
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Node JS20
PHP6
Ruby4
C#1

What frameworks and libraries does ClickHouse use?

React.js is named in 7% of job postings at ClickHouse, followed by OpenTelemetry (7%), Flink (6%), Pandas (4%).

React.js 23 7% required in 100% · 9 open now · since Dec 2024
OpenTelemetry 21 7% required in 71% · 6 open now · since Oct 2025
Flink 18 6% required in 78% · 3 open now · since Nov 2025
Pandas 13 4% required in 46% · 1 open now · since May 2026
LangChain 7 2% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
LlamaIndex 7 2% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
Next.js 7 2% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Jan 2026
Fastify 6 2% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Apr 2026
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NumPy6
Pydantic6
Dagster6
Vercel AI SDK1

What databases does ClickHouse use?

PostgreSQL is named in 14% of job postings at ClickHouse, followed by MySQL (7%), Google BigQuery (7%), Snowflake (7%).

PostgreSQL 42 14% required in 86% · 17 open now · since Oct 2025
MySQL 22 7% required in 95% · 7 open now · since Oct 2025
Google BigQuery 22 7% required in 82% · 11 open now · since Oct 2025
Snowflake 22 7% required in 82% · 11 open now · since Oct 2025
Amazon Redshift 15 5% required in 80% · 7 open now · since Oct 2025
BigQuery 12 4% required in 83% · 11 open now · since Oct 2025
ElasticSearch 9 3% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Feb 2026
Vertica 4 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
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DuckDB3
Cassandra2
Delta Lake2
Apache Iceberg1

What cloud and platforms does ClickHouse use?

AWS is named in 48% of job postings at ClickHouse, followed by Azure (48%), GCP (48%), Kubernetes (36%).

AWS 149 48% required in 75% · 74 open now · since Dec 2024
Azure 148 48% required in 75% · 74 open now · since Dec 2024
GCP 148 48% required in 74% · 74 open now · since Dec 2024
Kubernetes 110 36% required in 85% · 41 open now · since Dec 2024
Apache Kafka 56 18% required in 55% · 23 open now · since Nov 2025
Grafana 27 9% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Oct 2025
Linux 22 7% required in 100% · 12 open now · since Oct 2025
Amazon Kinesis 21 7% required in 52% · 12 open now · since Apr 2026
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Amazon EC220
GitHub20
Unix20
Spark16
Datadog13
Istio13
Langfuse13
Power BI13
Tableau13
Airflow13
Docker Swarm11
RabbitMQ10
Apache Pulsar7
Anthropic6
Prefect6
NATS6
PagerDuty5
Snyk5
Splunk5
Auth05
Vercel4
Amazon S33
Metabase2
OpenShift2
Superset2
AWS Fargate1
Amazon ECS1
GitHub Actions1
Looker1
OpenAI1
Databricks1

What developer tools does ClickHouse use?

Cursor is named in 50% of job postings at ClickHouse, followed by Lovable (47%), Terraform (19%), Docker (11%).

Cursor 155 50% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Dec 2024
Lovable 145 47% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Dec 2024
Terraform 57 19% required in 82% · 18 open now · since Oct 2025
Docker 33 11% required in 64% · 9 open now · since Jan 2026
Copilot 23 7% required in 70% · 8 open now · since May 2026
dbt 22 7% required in 82% · 4 open now · since May 2026
Helm 14 5% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Oct 2025
Ansible 13 4% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Mar 2026
Show all (31)
Claude Code12
CloudFormation12
Puppet11
ArgoCD10
Model Context Protocol10
Git9
Prometheus8
Cilium7
GraphQL7
pySpark7
CodeQL5
Semgrep5
Loki4
Fivetran3
Rest API3
Crossplane2
Docker Compose2
Kustomize2
Pulumi1
Strapi1
Turborepo1
WebSockets1
Yarn1

What AI and ML technologies does ClickHouse use?

LLM is named in 11% of job postings at ClickHouse, followed by Claude (2%).

LLM 33 11% required in 76% · 14 open now · since Jul 2025
Claude 7 2% required in 100% · since Jun 2026

Which engineering practices does ClickHouse ask for?

AI Agents is named in 10% of job postings at ClickHouse, followed by CI/CD (8%), ETL/ELT (7%), Incident Management (6%).

AI Agents 32 10% required in 75% · 14 open now · since May 2026
CI/CD 26 8% required in 88% · 10 open now · since Jul 2025
ETL/ELT 21 7% required in 90% · 5 open now · since Oct 2025
Incident Management 19 6% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Nov 2025
TCP/IP 15 5% required in 47% · 3 open now · since Jan 2026
IAM 13 4% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Jan 2026
Service Mesh 13 4% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Mar 2026
Machine Learning 12 4% required in 8% · 8 open now · since May 2026
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Configuration Management11
RAG8
PKI7
Feature Store6
Function Calling6
Red Teaming6
Rollup6
Chaos Engineering5
Context Engineering5
LLM Guardrails4
GitOps3
SLI/SLO/SLA3
AIOps2
Agentic Workflows2
Embeddings2
Human-in-the-Loop2
Prompt Engineering2
Self-Healing2
Tool Use2
A/B Testing2
Time Series Forecasting2
Dimensional Modeling1
Platform Engineering1

What does each ClickHouse team work with?

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

Backend

89 postings
Cursor65
Lovable60
TypeScript39
C++32
Kubernetes31
JavaScript30

DevOps

38 postings
AWS37
Azure36
GCP36
Kubernetes36
Terraform24
Cursor20

Sales

37 postings
SQL16
ElasticSearch5
Splunk3
Amazon Kinesis2
Apache Kafka2
BigQuery2

Product

37 postings
Cursor28
Lovable28
SQL18
PostgreSQL11
LLM10
TypeScript9

Solutions

16 postings
AWS6
Azure6
GCP6
Amazon EC23
Amazon Redshift3
Apache Kafka3

Security

15 postings
AWS13
Azure13
GCP13
Cursor10
Lovable10
Kubernetes9

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How much does ClickHouse pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all ClickHouse postings with stated pay: $220k across 95 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
SQL35$220k0%
AWS33$208k−5%
Azure33$208k−5%
GCP33$208k−5%
Kubernetes26$208k−5%
Python22$208k−5%
PostgreSQL20$238k+8%
TypeScript20$208k−5%
Go16$208k−5%
C++14$208k−5%

How is the ClickHouse 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
Docker ComposeSep 2026
A/B TestingSep 2026
Agentic WorkflowsSep 2026
SplunkAug 2026
GitOpsAug 2026
AIOpsAug 2026
Tool UseAug 2026
CrossplaneJul 2026
Rising
Claude Code1% → 7%
Langfuse2% → 7%
ElasticSearch0% → 5%
LLM9% → 13%
Amazon EC22% → 6%
CloudFormation0% → 4%
Cilium0% → 4%
LangChain0% → 4%
Falling
Python55% → 17%
Lovable62% → 32%
Cursor65% → 37%
Go37% → 10%
SQL49% → 25%
Rust21% → 0%
C++28% → 8%
PostgreSQL26% → 7%
Not named for 6 months
PHPJan 2026
Chaos EngineeringFeb 2026
LokiNov 2025

How modern is the ClickHouse stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 78/100

ClickHouse scores 78 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: 2; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the ClickHouse stack in its industry?

Share of the 71 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

AWS69%
Azure68%
GCP61%
Kubernetes65%
SQL73%
Python73%
TypeScript37%
C++55%
Go48%
Apache Kafka41%

What sets ClickHouse apart

Langfuse3%
Docker Swarm3%
Apache Pulsar1%
Dagster3%
Fastify3%
NATS3%
NumPy4%
Prefect3%
Pydantic3%
Auth03%

ClickHouse products in its job postings

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

ClickHouse308

Questions about the ClickHouse tech stack

What programming languages does ClickHouse use?

The languages named in ClickHouse job postings are SQL (34%), Python (30%), TypeScript (22%), C++ (21%), Go (21%), as a share of the 308 postings of the last 12 months.

Does ClickHouse use React.js?

Yes. React.js is named in 23 of 308 job postings (7%) and required in 23 of them.

What cloud and platforms does ClickHouse use?

The cloud and platforms named in ClickHouse job postings are AWS (149), Azure (148), GCP (148) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Backend job at ClickHouse?

Backend postings at ClickHouse most often require Cursor (65), Lovable (60), TypeScript (39), C++ (32), out of 89 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the ClickHouse tech stack changing?

Yes. Docker Compose, A/B Testing, Agentic Workflows, Splunk first appeared in ClickHouse job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the ClickHouse tech stack?

ClickHouse scores 78 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: 2; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the ClickHouse tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting ClickHouse publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 308 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Sep 26, 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, "ClickHouse tech stack: 139 technologies from 308 job postings", as of Sep 26, 2026. https://alion.io/company/clickhouse/technologies

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