Leidos tech stack

Leidos builds mostly with Python, C++, Java, JavaScript. Its stack also includes Linux, AWS, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch. Python is named in 577 of the 1,631 job postings Leidos published in the last 12 months (35%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Leidos, updated Sep 27, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 27, 2026
Technologies in use
570
Postings analysed
1,631
Open now
983
Modernity
75 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Leidos use?

Python is named in 35% of job postings at Leidos, followed by C++ (13%), Java (12%), JavaScript (11%).

Python 577 35% required in 72% · 348 open now · since May 2026
C++ 214 13% required in 82% · 132 open now · since May 2026
Java 195 12% required in 72% · 131 open now · since May 2026
JavaScript 186 11% required in 69% · 126 open now · since May 2026
PowerShell 170 10% required in 72% · 98 open now · since May 2026
SQL 167 10% required in 77% · 100 open now · since Jun 2026
Bash 109 7% required in 83% · 65 open now · since Jun 2026
MATLAB 101 6% required in 59% · 67 open now · since Jun 2026
Show all (38)
TypeScript81
Node JS67
C#49
Perl28
Ruby23
C19
VHDL19
PHP17
Verilog14
Rust12
Kotlin9
Ada9
Go6
Apex4
Fortran4
Sass4
Visual Basic3
Dart2
Groovy2
Scala2
COBOL2
Embedded C2
SPSS2
Assembly2
Less1
Quipper1
Swift1
Objective-C1
SAS1
YARA1

What frameworks and libraries does Leidos use?

Angular is named in 4% of job postings at Leidos, followed by React.js (4%), Selenium (3%), Commander.js (2%).

Angular 64 4% required in 63% · 42 open now · since May 2026
React.js 59 4% required in 78% · 38 open now · since Jun 2026
Selenium 41 3% required in 73% · 24 open now · since Jul 2026
Commander.js 25 2% required in 92% · 17 open now · since May 2026
Spring Boot 23 1% required in 74% · 16 open now · since May 2026
Vue.js 23 1% required in 57% · 19 open now · since Jun 2026
Bootstrap 19 1% required in 84% · 15 open now · since Jun 2026
Hibernate 19 1% required in 74% · 16 open now · since Jun 2026
Show all (106)
PyTorch14
TensorFlow14
Spring Framework11
Flask11
Hadoop10
CUDA10
NumPy9
Robot Framework9
Scikit-learn9
Mockito9
LangChain9
Qt9
JQuery8
Svelte7
JUnit7
Pandas7
Playwright7
Django7
FastAPI6
Ionic6
Metasploit6
Redux6
SciPy6
Matplotlib6
Plotly6
Cypress6
Axios5
CrewAI5
LangGraph5
Spring Security5
ROS5
Ray5

And 66 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does Leidos use?

PostgreSQL is named in 5% of job postings at Leidos, followed by ElasticSearch (4%), Oracle (3%), MySQL (3%).

PostgreSQL 76 5% required in 71% · 44 open now · since May 2026
ElasticSearch 65 4% required in 71% · 47 open now · since May 2026
Oracle 51 3% required in 75% · 32 open now · since May 2026
MySQL 44 3% required in 66% · 27 open now · since Jun 2026
MS SQL 20 1% required in 65% · 9 open now · since Jun 2026
Redis 12 1% required in 67% · 10 open now · since Jun 2026
DynamoDB 11 1% required in 55% · 8 open now · since Jul 2026
MariaDB 10 1% required in 40% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
Show all (27)
Amazon Aurora9
SQLite7
Amazon Redshift5
Snowflake5
OpenSearch5
Cassandra4
Neo4j4
Delta Lake3
Google BigQuery2
Milvus2
Pinecone2
Azure SQL Database2
MongoDB2
Presto2
Qdrant1
Trino1
Weaviate1
Azure Cosmos DB1
Db21

What cloud and platforms does Leidos use?

Linux is named in 27% of job postings at Leidos, followed by AWS (22%), Windows (17%), Azure (15%).

Linux 443 27% required in 85% · 273 open now · since May 2026
AWS 362 22% required in 72% · 237 open now · since May 2026
Windows 284 17% required in 90% · 161 open now · since May 2026
Azure 245 15% required in 70% · 150 open now · since May 2026
Kubernetes 208 13% required in 71% · 133 open now · since May 2026
VMWare 128 8% required in 78% · 77 open now · since May 2026
GitLab 120 7% required in 70% · 67 open now · since May 2026
Power BI 113 7% required in 71% · 66 open now · since May 2026
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Active Directory100
Unix91
GCP86
SIEM85
Splunk85
Red Hat75
Windows Server68
Apache Kafka65
GitHub63
GitLab CI56
OpenShift54
Grafana47
Bitbucket46
Kibana42
Amazon S341
Tableau36
Microsoft Entra ID28
Azure DevOps28
Spark26
LDAP24
SonarQube24
Amazon EC223
.NET22
Amazon ECS22
Rancher21
Databricks19
Amazon EKS19
AWS Lambda19
CentOS Stream18
Microsoft Defender18
RTOS17
Amazon CloudWatch16

And 85 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Leidos use?

Ansible is named in 13% of job postings at Leidos, followed by Git (12%), Docker (11%), Terraform (8%).

Ansible 213 13% required in 65% · 131 open now · since May 2026
Git 188 12% required in 66% · 114 open now · since Jun 2026
Docker 180 11% required in 64% · 115 open now · since May 2026
Terraform 133 8% required in 77% · 79 open now · since May 2026
Jenkins 132 8% required in 71% · 85 open now · since Jun 2026
AutoCAD 114 7% required in 68% · 72 open now · since Jun 2026
Rest API 58 4% required in 67% · 37 open now · since May 2026
CloudFormation 55 3% required in 78% · 35 open now · since May 2026
Show all (179)
SolidWorks55
Puppet48
Prometheus44
Microsoft Excel40
Wireshark40
Nessus39
Claude Code34
Helm29
Logstash24
Podman24
Chef22
ArgoCD19
Hyper-V19
Simulink19
Harbor15
KVM15
Apache Tomcat15
Copilot13
CMake13
Model Context Protocol13
Apache NiFi12
Gradle11
pySpark10
JMeter10
Bicep10
OpenAI Codex10
AWS Glue8
npm8
JFrog Artifactory8
Nmap8
Maven8
Trivy7

And 139 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Leidos use?

LLM is named in 2% of job postings at Leidos, followed by Claude (2%), Gemini (<1%), ChatGPT (<1%).

LLM 34 2% required in 91% · 17 open now · since May 2026
Claude 27 2% required in 48% · 11 open now · since May 2026
Gemini 7 <1% required in 29% · 3 open now · since Aug 2026
ChatGPT 3 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
Llama 3 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
LCM 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
LoRA 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
Mistral 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
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QLoRA1
PEFT1
Stable Diffusion1

Which engineering practices does Leidos ask for?

CI/CD is named in 21% of job postings at Leidos, followed by Machine Learning (13%), DNS (7%), TCP/IP (6%).

CI/CD 349 21% required in 72% · 213 open now · since May 2026
Machine Learning 213 13% required in 53% · 107 open now · since May 2026
DNS 114 7% required in 93% · 69 open now · since May 2026
TCP/IP 104 6% required in 78% · 61 open now · since Feb 2026
Configuration Management 101 6% required in 68% · 67 open now · since Jun 2026
BGP 89 5% required in 89% · 49 open now · since Feb 2026
OSPF 78 5% required in 96% · 45 open now · since Feb 2026
MPLS 78 5% required in 74% · 39 open now · since Feb 2026
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VPN76
DHCP72
PKI66
Incident Management64
IAM53
VLAN47
AI Agents45
ETL/ELT41
SLI/SLO/SLA37
Platform Engineering34
RAG23
SOAP23
GitOps23
Computer Vision22
Prompt Engineering17
NLP17
Service Mesh14
Sensor Fusion13
Red Teaming12
HPC12
Anomaly Detection11
Gitflow9
Human-in-the-Loop8
Wi-Fi8
Autonomous Navigation7
Self-Healing7
LLM Guardrails6
Path Planning6
FinOps6
Fine-tuning5
Reinforcement Learning5
Embeddings5

And 44 more, each named in fewer postings.

What does each Leidos team work with?

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

DevOps

233 postings
Linux124
Windows83
AWS79
Ansible77
Python73
Kubernetes62

Industrial Engineering

195 postings
AutoCAD51
Windows31
SolidWorks28
MATLAB19
C++13
Active Directory9

Backend

190 postings
Python90
C++78
Linux75
JavaScript66
Java63
AWS48

Networking

147 postings
Linux18
Ansible10
Azure10
VMWare10
Wireshark7
Rest API6

Security

144 postings
SIEM48
Linux43
Windows38
Python32
Splunk28
AWS26

Hardware

87 postings
C++27
MATLAB23
Linux15
AutoCAD9
VHDL8
RTOS6

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How much does Leidos pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Leidos postings with stated pay: $157k across 1,463 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Python535$167k+6%
Linux402$167k+6%
AWS337$195k+24%
Windows252$157k0%
Azure219$195k+24%
C++199$157k0%
Kubernetes186$195k+24%
Java182$195k+24%
JavaScript180$167k+6%
SQL160$167k+6%

How is the Leidos 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
NATSSep 2026
HashiCorp VaultSep 2026
KyvernoSep 2026
SigstoreSep 2026
SRESep 2026
Adobe Premiere ProSep 2026
Tool UseSep 2026
ArduPilotSep 2026
Rising
Windows9% → 18%
Machine Learning4% → 13%
Kubernetes6% → 13%
Unix1% → 6%
C++9% → 13%
Incident Management0% → 4%
Configuration Management3% → 6%
ETL/ELT0% → 3%
Falling
GitLab18% → 7%
Java18% → 12%
AutoCAD13% → 7%
Rest API9% → 3%
DHCP9% → 4%
Node JS9% → 4%
Apache Kafka9% → 4%
DNS10% → 7%

How modern is the Leidos stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 75/100

Leidos scores 75 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: 2.

How common is the Leidos stack in its industry?

Share of the 651 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Python51%
Linux42%
AWS32%
Windows35%
Azure31%
C++27%
Kubernetes36%
Java30%
JavaScript38%
PowerShell23%

What sets Leidos apart

Commander.js4%
Rancher4%

Questions about the Leidos tech stack

What programming languages does Leidos use?

The languages named in Leidos job postings are Python (35%), C++ (13%), Java (12%), JavaScript (11%), PowerShell (10%), as a share of the 1,631 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Leidos use Angular?

Yes. Angular is named in 64 of 1,631 job postings (4%) and required in 40 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Leidos use?

The cloud and platforms named in Leidos job postings are Linux (443), AWS (362), Windows (284) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a DevOps job at Leidos?

DevOps postings at Leidos most often require Linux (124), Windows (83), AWS (79), Ansible (77), out of 233 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Leidos tech stack changing?

Yes. NATS, HashiCorp Vault, Kyverno, Sigstore first appeared in Leidos job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Leidos tech stack?

Leidos scores 75 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: 2.

How does Alion know the Leidos tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Leidos publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 1,631 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, "Leidos tech stack: 570 technologies from 1,631 job postings", as of Sep 27, 2026. https://alion.io/company/leidos/technologies

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