# Microsoft - **Answer**: Microsoft builds mostly with Python, C++, JavaScript, SQL. Its stack also includes Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, React.js. Python is named in 1,085 of the 3,310 job postings Microsoft published in the last 12 months (33%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Microsoft, updated Nov 11, 2026. - **Window days**: 365 - **Postings analysed**: 3310 - **Open postings**: 1639 - **Technologies in use**: 475 - **Modernity score**: 77 - **Ai adoption**: yes - **Own products**: PowerShell, C#, Q#, Copilot, .NET, Visual Basic, Power BI, Azure DevOps, ML.NET, Microsoft Guidance, Semantic Kernel, Azure, MS SQL, Windows Server, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, MAUI, Microsoft Sentinel, WPF, DirectX, Azure Quantum, WinDbg, Bicep, Microsoft Defender, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure AKS, Hyper-V - **License**: CC BY-SA 4.0 ## Company - **Id**: 18 - **Name**: Microsoft - **Domain**: microsoft.com - **Url**: ## Technologies - **Python** — Layer: languages; Postings: 1085; Share: 0.3278; Required: 803; Open postings: 548; First seen: 2025-11-03 - **C++** — Layer: languages; Postings: 813; Share: 0.2456; Required: 695; Open postings: 388; First seen: 2025-11-03 - **AI Agents** — Layer: practices; Postings: 761; Share: 0.2299; Required: 647; Open postings: 415; First seen: 2025-11-19 - **JavaScript** — Layer: languages; Postings: 672; Share: 0.203; Required: 591; Open postings: 315; First seen: 2025-11-19 - **Machine Learning** — Layer: practices; Postings: 403; Share: 0.1218; Required: 289; Open postings: 233; First seen: 2025-11-24 - **CI/CD** — Layer: practices; Postings: 317; Share: 0.0958; Required: 193; Open postings: 145; First seen: 2025-11-03 - **SQL** — Layer: languages; Postings: 264; Share: 0.0798; Required: 142; Open postings: 112; First seen: 2026-01-08 - **Kubernetes** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 229; Share: 0.0692; Required: 70; Open postings: 105; First seen: 2025-11-03 - **LLM** — Layer: ai; Postings: 211; Share: 0.0637; Required: 118; Open postings: 117; First seen: 2025-11-27 - **AWS** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 204; Share: 0.0616; Required: 60; Open postings: 99; First seen: 2025-12-02 - **Copilot Studio** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 189; Share: 0.0571; Required: 153; Open postings: 99; First seen: 2026-03-26 - **RAG** — Layer: practices; Postings: 163; Share: 0.0492; Required: 91; Open postings: 86; First seen: 2026-01-07 - **PostgreSQL** — Layer: data; Postings: 151; Share: 0.0456; Required: 130; Open postings: 56; First seen: 2025-11-24 - **Linux** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 149; Share: 0.045; Required: 82; Open postings: 71; First seen: 2025-11-03 - **TypeScript** — Layer: languages; Postings: 143; Share: 0.0432; Required: 56; Open postings: 45; First seen: 2026-01-07 - **Java** — Layer: languages; Postings: 121; Share: 0.0366; Required: 82; Open postings: 56; First seen: 2025-11-27 - **GCP** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 118; Share: 0.0356; Required: 36; Open postings: 65; First seen: 2025-12-02 - **OpenAI** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 115; Share: 0.0347; Required: 72; Open postings: 63; First seen: 2025-12-18 - **Incident Management** — Layer: practices; Postings: 110; Share: 0.0332; Required: 83; Open postings: 58; First seen: 2025-12-22 - **Databricks** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 106; Share: 0.032; Required: 74; Open postings: 47; First seen: 2026-05-20 - **Rust** — Layer: languages; Postings: 104; Share: 0.0314; Required: 58; Open postings: 42; First seen: 2025-11-21 - **Agentic Workflows** — Layer: practices; Postings: 102; Share: 0.0308; Required: 73; Open postings: 51; First seen: 2026-02-10 - **Model Context Protocol** — Layer: tools; Postings: 99; Share: 0.0299; Required: 72; Open postings: 47; First seen: 2026-06-26 - **Azure Data Factory** — Layer: tools; Postings: 97; Share: 0.0293; Required: 78; Open postings: 35; First seen: 2026-02-12 - **Prompt Engineering** — Layer: practices; Postings: 96; Share: 0.029; Required: 44; Open postings: 45; First seen: 2026-01-07 - **React.js** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 91; Share: 0.0275; Required: 45; Open postings: 26; First seen: 2026-01-07 - **PyTorch** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 87; Share: 0.0263; Required: 20; Open postings: 50; First seen: 2025-12-18 - **Function Calling** — Layer: practices; Postings: 75; Share: 0.0227; Required: 39; Open postings: 43; First seen: 2026-04-14 - **Rest API** — Layer: tools; Postings: 75; Share: 0.0227; Required: 34; Open postings: 32; First seen: 2026-05-08 - **Platform Engineering** — Layer: practices; Postings: 72; Share: 0.0218; Required: 58; Open postings: 31; First seen: 2026-01-08 - **Fine-tuning** — Layer: practices; Postings: 71; Share: 0.0215; Required: 45; Open postings: 40; First seen: 2025-12-18 - **SIEM** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 69; Share: 0.0208; Required: 37; Open postings: 41; First seen: 2026-01-08 - **Spark** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 64; Share: 0.0193; Required: 26; Open postings: 28; First seen: 2026-06-23 - **Multimodal AI** — Layer: practices; Postings: 63; Share: 0.019; Required: 56; Open postings: 37; First seen: 2025-11-19 - **IAM** — Layer: practices; Postings: 61; Share: 0.0184; Required: 56; Open postings: 34; First seen: 2026-01-07 - **Go** — Layer: languages; Postings: 61; Share: 0.0184; Required: 35; Open postings: 27; First seen: 2025-11-03 - **Human-in-the-Loop** — Layer: practices; Postings: 58; Share: 0.0175; Required: 42; Open postings: 30; First seen: 2026-04-14 - **Reinforcement Learning** — Layer: practices; Postings: 57; Share: 0.0172; Required: 41; Open postings: 40; First seen: 2025-12-18 - **SystemVerilog** — Layer: languages; Postings: 53; Share: 0.016; Required: 17; Open postings: 32; First seen: 2026-05-04 - **Post-training** — Layer: practices; Postings: 50; Share: 0.0151; Required: 43; Open postings: 29; First seen: 2026-02-09 - **Git** — Layer: tools; Postings: 50; Share: 0.0151; Required: 24; Open postings: 19; First seen: 2025-11-24 - **Active Directory** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 49; Share: 0.0148; Required: 37; Open postings: 29; First seen: 2025-12-02 - **DNS** — Layer: practices; Postings: 49; Share: 0.0148; Required: 27; Open postings: 28; First seen: 2026-07-21 - **Perl** — Layer: languages; Postings: 48; Share: 0.0145; Required: 8; Open postings: 28; First seen: 2026-05-04 - **Node JS** — Layer: languages; Postings: 47; Share: 0.0142; Required: 21; Open postings: 23; First seen: 2026-01-07 - **Docker** — Layer: tools; Postings: 46; Share: 0.0139; Required: 15; Open postings: 30; First seen: 2026-01-16 - **UVM** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 45; Share: 0.0136; Required: 31; Open postings: 29; First seen: 2026-05-04 - **Red Teaming** — Layer: practices; Postings: 44; Share: 0.0133; Required: 35; Open postings: 36; First seen: 2026-04-17 - **Multi-Agent Systems** — Layer: practices; Postings: 41; Share: 0.0124; Required: 25; Open postings: 26; First seen: 2025-11-24 - **NLP** — Layer: practices; Postings: 41; Share: 0.0124; Required: 19; Open postings: 18; First seen: 2025-12-18 - … 425 more in the JSON form ## Changes ### First appeared - **ESLint** — First seen: 2026-11-04 - **Jest** — First seen: 2026-11-04 - **Cadence Conformal** — First seen: 2026-11-03 - **Drupal** — First seen: 2026-10-28 - **OpenShift** — First seen: 2026-10-26 - **Spinnaker** — First seen: 2026-10-26 - **Synopsys Design Compiler** — First seen: 2026-10-23 - **Design of Experiments** — First seen: 2026-10-22 ### Rising - **Copilot Studio** — Share from: 3; Share to: 6 ### Falling - **Azure Data Factory** — Share from: 7; Share to: 2 - **PostgreSQL** — Share from: 8; Share to: 4 ## Similar stacks - [NVIDIA](https://alion.io/company/nvidia/technologies) — Shared technologies: 391 - [AMD](https://alion.io/company/amd/technologies) — Shared technologies: 299 - [Qualcomm](https://alion.io/company/qualcomm/technologies) — Shared technologies: 358 - [Google](https://alion.io/company/google/technologies) — Shared technologies: 327 - [Amazon](https://alion.io/company/amazon/technologies) — Shared technologies: 412 - [Micron Technology](https://alion.io/company/micron-technology/technologies) — Shared technologies: 304 - [Cisco Systems](https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems/technologies) — Shared technologies: 363 - [Apple](https://alion.io/company/apple/technologies) — Shared technologies: 375 --- [Page](https://alion.io/company/microsoft/technologies) · [JSON](https://alion.io/company/microsoft/technologies.json) Source: Alion (alion.io), 2026-11-11. 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