Leidos
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Leidos tech stack

Leidos builds mostly with Python, C++, JavaScript, Java. Its stack also includes Linux, AWS, PostgreSQL, Angular. Python is named in 914 of the 2,811 job postings Leidos published in the last 12 months (33%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Leidos, updated Nov 11, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 11, 2026
Technologies in use
691
Postings analysed
2,811
Open now
1,211
Modernity
74 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Leidos use?

Python is named in 33% of job postings at Leidos, followed by C++ (12%), JavaScript (11%), Java (10%).

Python 914 33% required in 72% · 373 open now · since Jan 2026
C++ 341 12% required in 82% · 122 open now · since May 2026
JavaScript 299 11% required in 69% · 129 open now · since May 2026
Java 289 10% required in 69% · 140 open now · since Jan 2026
PowerShell 286 10% required in 71% · 110 open now · since Jan 2026
SQL 263 9% required in 75% · 111 open now · since Apr 2026
MATLAB 182 6% required in 60% · 73 open now · since May 2026
Bash 166 6% required in 83% · 75 open now · since Jun 2026
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TypeScript133
Node JS95
C#94
Perl43
Ruby37
C29
VHDL28
Rust27
PHP24
Verilog22
Kotlin11
Ada11
Go10
Apex9
Fortran7
Sass6
Groovy5
Visual Basic5
Scala4
SPSS4
SystemVerilog4
Assembly3
COBOL3
Embedded C3
Dart2
Swift2
SAS2
LISP1
Less1
Quipper1
Cython1
Objective-C1

And 1 more, each named in fewer postings.

What frameworks and libraries does Leidos use?

Angular is named in 3% of job postings at Leidos, followed by React.js (3%), Selenium (2%), Vue.js (1%).

Angular 96 3% required in 63% · 47 open now · since May 2026
React.js 86 3% required in 76% · 44 open now · since Jun 2026
Selenium 68 2% required in 75% · 27 open now · since Jul 2026
Vue.js 34 1% required in 47% · 23 open now · since Jun 2026
Spring Boot 30 1% required in 80% · 15 open now · since May 2026
Hibernate 26 1% required in 77% · 18 open now · since Jun 2026
Bootstrap 25 1% required in 84% · 15 open now · since Jun 2026
JUnit 22 1% required in 82% · 14 open now · since May 2026
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TensorFlow21
PyTorch19
Playwright16
Robot Framework15
Flask15
CUDA15
Spring Framework14
Metasploit14
Qt14
Cypress14
Pytest13
LangChain13
NumPy12
Hadoop12
Scikit-learn12
JQuery11
Mockito11
Redux10
Django10
Axios9
Svelte9
Pandas9
FastAPI8
Rest-Assured8
Matplotlib8
LangGraph8
ZeroMQ8
SciPy7
Plotly7
Flink7
CrewAI6
Ionic6

And 79 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does Leidos use?

PostgreSQL is named in 4% of job postings at Leidos, followed by ElasticSearch (3%), Oracle (3%), MySQL (2%).

PostgreSQL 111 4% required in 70% · 61 open now · since May 2026
ElasticSearch 85 3% required in 64% · 52 open now · since Mar 2026
Oracle 75 3% required in 73% · 36 open now · since May 2026
MySQL 66 2% required in 67% · 34 open now · since Jun 2026
MS SQL 32 1% required in 72% · 11 open now · since Apr 2026
Redis 23 1% required in 57% · 19 open now · since Mar 2026
MariaDB 17 1% required in 59% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
DynamoDB 15 1% required in 47% · 9 open now · since Jul 2026
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Amazon Aurora14
Cassandra9
OpenSearch9
Delta Lake8
Amazon Redshift7
Snowflake7
SQLite7
Neo4j5
Google BigQuery4
Azure SQL Database4
Milvus3
Pinecone3
Presto3
Qdrant3
MongoDB3
Trino2
Db22
Firestore2
Amazon Neptune1
Apache Iceberg1
Weaviate1
Azure Cosmos DB1
ClickHouse1

What cloud and platforms does Leidos use?

Linux is named in 25% of job postings at Leidos, followed by AWS (21%), Windows (17%), Azure (15%).

Linux 694 25% required in 80% · 290 open now · since Jan 2026
AWS 591 21% required in 69% · 279 open now · since Jan 2026
Windows 467 17% required in 90% · 203 open now · since Jan 2026
Azure 409 15% required in 70% · 174 open now · since Jan 2026
Kubernetes 323 11% required in 66% · 151 open now · since Jan 2026
Power BI 200 7% required in 68% · 68 open now · since Jan 2026
VMWare 194 7% required in 78% · 80 open now · since Apr 2026
GitLab 194 7% required in 68% · 91 open now · since Mar 2026
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Active Directory173
GCP150
Unix135
Splunk134
Windows Server130
SIEM126
Red Hat122
Apache Kafka95
GitLab CI94
GitHub94
OpenShift77
Bitbucket71
Tableau70
Grafana70
Amazon S365
Kibana56
Azure DevOps54
Microsoft Entra ID44
Spark40
SonarQube40
.NET38
LDAP37
Amazon EKS36
Microsoft Defender35
GitHub Actions34
Amazon EC234
Amazon CloudWatch32
Databricks31
Amazon ECS28
Rancher27
AWS Lambda27
Ubuntu26

And 97 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Leidos use?

Ansible is named in 12% of job postings at Leidos, followed by Git (11%), Docker (10%), Terraform (8%).

Ansible 340 12% required in 61% · 156 open now · since Jan 2026
Git 315 11% required in 66% · 134 open now · since May 2026
Docker 283 10% required in 62% · 130 open now · since Jan 2026
Terraform 215 8% required in 69% · 98 open now · since Jan 2026
Jenkins 200 7% required in 72% · 89 open now · since Jun 2026
AutoCAD 193 7% required in 70% · 95 open now · since Dec 2025
Rest API 145 5% required in 68% · 78 open now · since May 2026
Microsoft Excel 101 4% required in 76% · 37 open now · since Jul 2026
Show all (233)
CloudFormation93
SolidWorks89
Wireshark71
Puppet68
Nessus64
Prometheus61
Simulink50
Claude Code50
Cameo Systems Modeler50
Podman46
Helm43
Hyper-V33
Chef33
SysML32
Logstash31
IBM DOORS27
ArgoCD26
Harbor23
JMeter22
Model Context Protocol22
KVM22
Copilot21
Nmap19
CMake19
Bicep18
Apache Tomcat18
OpenAI Codex17
Apache NiFi16
JFrog Artifactory16
pySpark15
Keycloak15
Gradle15

And 193 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 (1%), Gemini (<1%), ChatGPT (<1%).

LLM 45 2% required in 89% · 21 open now · since May 2026
Claude 26 1% required in 50% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
Gemini 13 <1% required in 15% · 6 open now · since Aug 2026
ChatGPT 7 <1% required in 86% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
Llama 4 <1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
Mistral 2 <1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
LCM 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
LoRA 1 <1% required in 100% · since Sep 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 (12%), DNS (7%), Configuration Management (6%).

CI/CD 589 21% required in 72% · 270 open now · since Jan 2026
Machine Learning 346 12% required in 53% · 111 open now · since Jan 2026
DNS 199 7% required in 95% · 81 open now · since Apr 2026
Configuration Management 174 6% required in 72% · 89 open now · since Jan 2026
TCP/IP 172 6% required in 83% · 63 open now · since Feb 2026
BGP 127 5% required in 90% · 51 open now · since Jan 2026
DHCP 123 4% required in 93% · 49 open now · since May 2026
OSPF 110 4% required in 95% · 43 open now · since Jan 2026
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MPLS107
VPN103
PKI102
Incident Management100
IAM95
AS910068
Verification & Validation65
VLAN64
MBSE64
ETL/ELT60
Platform Engineering55
AI Agents54
GD&T50
SOAP41
GitOps37
RAG34
Computer Vision27
EVMS25
Red Teaming24
NLP23
Prompt Engineering21
Service Mesh21
HPC19
MIL-STD-88218
Sensor Fusion16
CAPA14
Anomaly Detection14
FMEA14
Gitflow13
Wi-Fi13
SLI/SLO/SLA12
DoDAF12

And 79 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.

Industrial Engineering

401 postings
AutoCAD89
SolidWorks52
Windows50
Linux33
MATLAB33
C++28

DevOps

358 postings
Linux177
Windows128
AWS119
Ansible111
Python105
Azure97

Backend

305 postings
Python159
C++121
Linux110
JavaScript108
Java83
AWS75

Security

227 postings
SIEM70
Linux60
Windows53
Python50
AWS48
Splunk42

Networking

195 postings
Linux27
Windows18
VMWare16
Ansible12
Active Directory10
Wireshark9

Operations

145 postings
Power BI44
Microsoft Excel6
Windows Server5
Node JS4
Tableau4
AutoCAD3

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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 2,549 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Python858$167k+6%
Linux641$157k0%
AWS552$195k+24%
Windows414$157k0%
Azure369$195k+24%
C++319$157k0%
Kubernetes294$195k+24%
JavaScript284$167k+6%
Java273$195k+24%
SQL253$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
Amazon EventBridgeNov 2026
JFrog XrayNov 2026
PuppeteerOct 2026
InterpretabilityOct 2026
LIMSOct 2026
ChromatographyOct 2026
Mass SpectrometryOct 2026
WizOct 2026
Rising
Microsoft Excel1% → 4%
Falling
Java17% → 8%
ElasticSearch7% → 2%
Jenkins10% → 6%
GitLab10% → 6%
TypeScript7% → 4%
PostgreSQL6% → 3%
Angular6% → 3%
GitHub5% → 3%
Not named for 6 months
DO-160May 2026

How modern is the Leidos stack?

Modern AI adopter 74/100

Leidos scores 74 out of 100 (Modern). 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 3,627 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Python37%
Linux30%
AWS23%
Windows30%
Azure26%
C++21%
Kubernetes19%
JavaScript25%
Java19%
PowerShell16%

What sets Leidos apart

Bitbucket4%
Kibana4%
Perl4%
Ruby4%
Microsoft Defender4%
Amazon CloudWatch4%

Questions about the Leidos tech stack

What programming languages does Leidos use?

The languages named in Leidos job postings are Python (33%), C++ (12%), JavaScript (11%), Java (10%), PowerShell (10%), as a share of the 2,811 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Leidos use Angular?

Yes. Angular is named in 96 of 2,811 job postings (3%) and required in 60 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Leidos use?

The cloud and platforms named in Leidos job postings are Linux (694), AWS (591), Windows (467) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Industrial Engineering job at Leidos?

Industrial Engineering postings at Leidos most often require AutoCAD (89), SolidWorks (52), Windows (50), Linux (33), out of 401 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Leidos tech stack changing?

Yes. Amazon EventBridge, JFrog Xray, Puppeteer, Interpretability first appeared in Leidos job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Leidos tech stack?

Leidos scores 74 out of 100 (Modern). 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 2,811 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, "Leidos tech stack: 691 technologies from 2,811 job postings", as of Nov 11, 2026. https://alion.io/company/leidos/technologies

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