IQVIA tech stack

IQVIA builds mostly with SQL, Python, SAS, JavaScript. Its stack also includes GCP, Azure, Snowflake, React.js. GCP is named in 364 of the 724 job postings IQVIA published in the last 12 months (50%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of IQVIA, updated Sep 26, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 26, 2026
Technologies in use
278
Postings analysed
724
Open now
400
Modernity
81 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does IQVIA use?

SQL is named in 15% of job postings at IQVIA, followed by Python (12%), SAS (5%), JavaScript (4%).

SQL 105 15% required in 91% · 40 open now · since Jun 2021
Python 90 12% required in 89% · 27 open now · since Mar 2026
SAS 34 5% required in 97% · 15 open now · since Feb 2022
JavaScript 32 4% required in 75% · 11 open now · since Apr 2026
C# 21 3% required in 71% · 9 open now · since Jun 2026
Java 20 3% required in 85% · 7 open now · since Mar 2026
TypeScript 14 2% required in 64% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
Scala 12 2% required in 75% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
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Node JS8
Bash5
PowerShell5
PHP4
C++3
Ruby3
SPSS3
Stata3
Apex3
C3
Visual Basic2
COBOL1
Go1
JCL1
Julia1
Kotlin1

What frameworks and libraries does IQVIA use?

React.js is named in 2% of job postings at IQVIA, followed by ASP.NET Core (1%), FastAPI (1%), PyTorch (1%).

React.js 17 2% required in 94% · 2 open now · since Apr 2026
ASP.NET Core 5 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
FastAPI 5 1% required in 80% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
PyTorch 5 1% required in 80% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
Spring Boot 5 1% required in 80% · 3 open now · since Aug 2026
CUDA 5 1% required in 20% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
LangChain 4 1% required in 75% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
Angular 4 1% required in 50% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
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Selenium4
NumPy3
SDL3
LangGraph3
Scikit-learn3
Vue.js3
Blazor3
CrewAI2
Entity Framework Core2
JUnit2
Jest2
TensorFlow2
Bootstrap2
Hadoop2
JQuery2
Playwright2
Streamlit2
AutoGen1
Celery1
Dagster1
Express1
Hibernate1
Mockito1
NCCL1
Next.js1
Outlines1
Pandas1
Pytest1
Ray1
React Native1
Rest-Assured1
Robot Framework1

And 15 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does IQVIA use?

Snowflake is named in 4% of job postings at IQVIA, followed by Oracle (2%), PostgreSQL (2%), MS SQL (2%).

Snowflake 29 4% required in 86% · 5 open now · since Nov 2022
Oracle 16 2% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Nov 2022
PostgreSQL 16 2% required in 88% · 3 open now · since Jun 2026
MS SQL 13 2% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Apr 2022
MySQL 9 1% required in 89% · 3 open now · since Jun 2026
ElasticSearch 8 1% required in 38% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
Amazon Redshift 7 1% required in 86% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
Redis 2 <1% required in 100% · since Jul 2026
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RavenDB2
Apache Iceberg1
Delta Lake1
Google BigQuery1
IMS1
MongoDB1
Cassandra1
HBase1
Presto1

What cloud and platforms does IQVIA use?

GCP is named in 50% of job postings at IQVIA, followed by Azure (9%), AWS (7%), Windows (7%).

GCP 364 50% required in 97% · 222 open now · since Aug 2020
Azure 63 9% required in 70% · 24 open now · since Oct 2024
AWS 53 7% required in 74% · 22 open now · since Nov 2022
Windows 50 7% required in 96% · 24 open now · since May 2026
Power BI 44 6% required in 95% · 18 open now · since Jun 2021
Databricks 35 5% required in 86% · 12 open now · since Apr 2026
Kubernetes 20 3% required in 80% · 7 open now · since Apr 2026
Tableau 18 2% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Jun 2021
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Spark16
GitLab15
Linux13
.NET12
GitHub8
Azure DevOps7
GitLab CI6
Twilio6
Amazon S35
Postman5
Apache Kafka5
CUDA Toolkit5
API Gateway4
Amazon EC24
Amazon ECS4
Figma4
Unix4
OpenAI4
Active Directory3
Amazon CloudWatch3
GitHub Actions3
Microsoft Entra ID3
MuleSoft3
VMWare3
Grafana3
Microsoft Fabric3
Windows Server3
AWS Lambda2
Airflow2
Amazon EKS2
CentOS Stream2
PubMed2

And 20 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does IQVIA use?

Microsoft Excel is named in 11% of job postings at IQVIA, followed by Git (4%), Copilot (3%), Docker (3%).

Microsoft Excel 79 11% required in 92% · 46 open now · since Jul 2021
Git 26 4% required in 92% · 9 open now · since Dec 2021
Copilot 22 3% required in 91% · 8 open now · since Jun 2026
Docker 22 3% required in 73% · 7 open now · since Apr 2026
CAPA 18 2% required in 100% · 12 open now · since Feb 2022
Terraform 13 2% required in 69% · 6 open now · since Aug 2026
Rest API 11 2% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Sep 2026
Cursor 11 2% required in 73% · 5 open now · since Jul 2026
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pySpark8
Ansible6
Matter6
CloudFormation4
Jenkins4
Adobe Photoshop4
Adobe Premiere Pro3
TestRail3
Prometheus3
Adobe After Effects2
Aider2
JMeter2
Puppet2
SoapUI2
Vite2
Adobe Illustrator2
Model Context Protocol2
SSIS2
dbt2
AWS CDK1
Adobe InDesign1
Adobe XD1
Alteryx1
ArgoCD1
Azure Data Factory1
Claude Code1
FortiGate1
GraphQL1
Helm1
Maven1
Packer1
SLURM1

And 7 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does IQVIA use?

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

LLM 21 3% required in 76% · 7 open now · since Apr 2026
Claude 8 1% required in 63% · 4 open now · since Apr 2026
ChatGPT 5 1% required in 40% · 3 open now · since Apr 2026
Qwen 2 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
AWQ 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
GPT-4 1 <1% required in 100% · since Sep 2026
GPTQ 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
Llama 1 <1% required in 100% · since Aug 2026
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LoRA1
Mistral1
PEFT1

Which engineering practices does IQVIA ask for?

CI/CD is named in 8% of job postings at IQVIA, followed by AI Agents (5%), ETL/ELT (4%), Machine Learning (3%).

CI/CD 55 8% required in 87% · 24 open now · since Dec 2021
AI Agents 35 5% required in 94% · 15 open now · since Mar 2026
ETL/ELT 27 4% required in 74% · 8 open now · since Jun 2021
Machine Learning 25 3% required in 84% · 12 open now · since Apr 2026
RAG 18 2% required in 89% · 6 open now · since Apr 2026
SLI/SLO/SLA 15 2% required in 87% · 5 open now · since Jul 2026
Prompt Engineering 10 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
Human-in-the-Loop 7 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Apr 2026
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Agentic Workflows6
IAM6
NLP6
SOAP6
Platform Engineering5
Incident Management4
LLM Guardrails4
LLMOps4
Multi-Agent Systems4
Configuration Management3
DNS3
Edge AI3
Master Data Management3
Semantic Search3
Semantic Search3
Embeddings2
Fine-tuning2
Function Calling2
Hallucination2
Shift-Left2
Time Series Forecasting2
Tool Use2
Wi-Fi2
FinOps2
Knowledge Graph2
OCR2
A/B Testing1
BGP1
Context Engineering1
Dependency Injection1
Diffusion Models1
EU AI Act1

And 23 more, each named in fewer postings.

What other technologies does IQVIA use?

Compound is named in <1% of job postings at IQVIA.

Compound 2 <1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Feb 2022

What does each IQVIA team work with?

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

Science & Research

133 postings
GCP106
Microsoft Excel10
SAS4
CAPA2

Management

83 postings
GCP59
SAS5
Power BI4
SQL4
CAPA3
Oracle3

Operations

67 postings
GCP29
Windows23
Microsoft Excel7
Power BI4
CAPA3
SDL3

Sales

57 postings
GCP30
Microsoft Excel17
Matter6
Copilot3

Analytics

52 postings
SQL27
Python18
Power BI16
Microsoft Excel13
Tableau8
Copilot5

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How much does IQVIA pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all IQVIA postings with stated pay: $184k across 173 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
GCP96$171k−7%
SQL21$212k+15%
Python15$221k+20%
AWS13$235k+28%
Azure9$235k+28%
Snowflake6$237k+29%
Tableau6$221k+20%
Power BI6$172k−6%
LLM5$279k+52%

How is the IQVIA 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
Wi-FiSep 2026
BootstrapSep 2026
JQuerySep 2026
Microsoft FabricSep 2026
DNSSep 2026
Windows ServerSep 2026
HallucinationSep 2026
TensorFlowSep 2026
Rising
SQL4% → 16%
Power BI0% → 7%
Snowflake0% → 4%
ETL/ELT0% → 4%
Git0% → 4%
SAS2% → 5%
JavaScript2% → 5%
C#0% → 3%
Falling
LLM9% → 2%
AI Agents9% → 4%
Windows11% → 7%
Claude4% → 1%
Kubernetes5% → 3%

How modern is the IQVIA stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 81/100

IQVIA scores 81 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: 11; legacy ones: 1.

How common is the IQVIA stack in its industry?

Share of the 150 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

GCP51%
SQL68%
Python66%
Azure37%
AWS57%
Windows17%
Power BI23%
Databricks25%
SAS10%
JavaScript48%

What sets IQVIA apart

Twilio1%
CUDA1%
CUDA Toolkit1%
Apex4%

Questions about the IQVIA tech stack

What programming languages does IQVIA use?

The languages named in IQVIA job postings are SQL (15%), Python (12%), SAS (5%), JavaScript (4%), C# (3%), as a share of the 724 postings of the last 12 months.

Does IQVIA use React.js?

Yes. React.js is named in 17 of 724 job postings (2%) and required in 16 of them.

What cloud and platforms does IQVIA use?

The cloud and platforms named in IQVIA job postings are GCP (364), Azure (63), AWS (53) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Science & Research job at IQVIA?

Science & Research postings at IQVIA most often require GCP (106), Microsoft Excel (10), SAS (4), CAPA (2), out of 133 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the IQVIA tech stack changing?

Yes. Wi-Fi, Bootstrap, JQuery, Microsoft Fabric first appeared in IQVIA job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the IQVIA tech stack?

IQVIA scores 81 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: 11; legacy ones: 1.

How does Alion know the IQVIA tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting IQVIA publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 724 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, "IQVIA tech stack: 278 technologies from 724 job postings", as of Sep 26, 2026. https://alion.io/company/iqvia/technologies

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