NCS
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NCS tech stack

NCS builds mostly with Python, JavaScript, SQL, Java. Its stack also includes AWS, Azure, React.js, PostgreSQL. AWS is named in 158 of the 403 job postings NCS published in the last 12 months (39%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of NCS, updated Nov 11, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 11, 2026
Technologies in use
423
Postings analysed
403
Open now
306
Modernity
78 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does NCS use?

Python is named in 38% of job postings at NCS, followed by JavaScript (19%), SQL (19%), Java (17%).

Python 155 38% required in 89% · 113 open now · since Jan 2026
JavaScript 78 19% required in 50% · 61 open now · since Jan 2026
SQL 77 19% required in 95% · 58 open now · since Jan 2026
Java 68 17% required in 71% · 56 open now · since Jan 2026
TypeScript 42 10% required in 57% · 32 open now · since Jan 2026
PowerShell 38 9% required in 97% · 29 open now · since Jan 2026
C# 30 7% required in 30% · 15 open now · since Mar 2026
Node JS 23 6% required in 57% · 21 open now · since Jan 2026
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C++18
PHP16
Bash11
ABAP11
Perl7
C7
Ruby5
Kotlin5
R5
Go4
COBOL4
Scala3
Julia2
Apex1

What frameworks and libraries does NCS use?

React.js is named in 8% of job postings at NCS, followed by LangChain (7%), Angular (6%), LangGraph (5%).

React.js 33 8% required in 94% · 23 open now · since Feb 2026
LangChain 27 7% required in 63% · 23 open now · since Apr 2026
Angular 26 6% required in 96% · 18 open now · since Jan 2026
LangGraph 20 5% required in 90% · 17 open now · since Apr 2026
Spring Boot 19 5% required in 89% · 17 open now · since Feb 2026
LlamaIndex 13 3% required in 92% · 13 open now · since Apr 2026
pgvector 11 3% required in 82% · 11 open now · since Apr 2026
OpenTelemetry 10 2% required in 100% · 9 open now · since Apr 2026
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PyTorch10
FastAPI9
ROS9
Pandas9
OpenCV9
Flink8
Playwright8
TensorFlow8
Scikit-learn7
LiteLLM7
FAISS6
Selenium6
FFmpeg6
AWS Strands Agents5
AutoGen5
CrewAI5
Spring Framework5
Unity5
Flask4
JQuery4
Plotly4
ROS24
Redux4
Hibernate4
NumPy4
Hadoop4
Cypress3
JUnit3
Mockito3
Next.js3
dplyr3
Matplotlib3

And 43 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does NCS use?

PostgreSQL is named in 8% of job postings at NCS, followed by MySQL (4%), MS SQL (3%), Oracle (3%).

PostgreSQL 32 8% required in 66% · 28 open now · since Jan 2026
MySQL 18 4% required in 100% · 13 open now · since Jan 2026
MS SQL 12 3% required in 92% · 11 open now · since Jan 2026
Oracle 11 3% required in 100% · 9 open now · since Jan 2026
Milvus 11 3% required in 91% · 11 open now · since Apr 2026
Weaviate 9 2% required in 89% · 9 open now · since Apr 2026
Delta Lake 7 2% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Jun 2026
Qdrant 7 2% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Apr 2026
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Snowflake7
Pinecone7
Apache Iceberg6
OpenSearch6
Redis6
Amazon Redshift5
GraphDB4
Azure SQL Database3
Chroma3
DuckDB3
Google BigQuery3
DynamoDB3
SAP HANA2
Trino2
ElasticSearch2
Amazon Aurora1
Db21
SAP BW1
SQLite1

What cloud and platforms does NCS use?

AWS is named in 39% of job postings at NCS, followed by Azure (37%), GCP (19%), Kubernetes (19%).

AWS 158 39% required in 81% · 130 open now · since Jan 2026
Azure 148 37% required in 78% · 120 open now · since Jan 2026
GCP 77 19% required in 82% · 62 open now · since Jan 2026
Kubernetes 75 19% required in 85% · 64 open now · since Jan 2026
Linux 50 12% required in 90% · 44 open now · since Jan 2026
Windows 48 12% required in 96% · 36 open now · since Jan 2026
.NET 26 6% required in 92% · 13 open now · since Mar 2026
Apache Kafka 26 6% required in 88% · 22 open now · since Feb 2026
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Windows Server25
SIEM23
Spark22
Power BI21
VMWare20
Active Directory19
AWS Bedrock19
OpenAI18
Databricks17
Unix17
Grafana16
Splunk15
Vertex AI15
Amazon S313
Azure AKS12
vLLM12
Amazon EKS11
Amazon SageMaker11
AWS Lambda10
Tableau10
Amazon EC29
Bamboo9
Figma9
OpenShift9
GitLab CI9
Amazon CloudWatch8
Amazon ECS8
Anthropic7
Microsoft Entra ID7
GitHub Actions7
Airflow6
Amazon Kinesis6

And 62 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does NCS use?

Docker is named in 15% of job postings at NCS, followed by Terraform (14%), Git (14%), Rest API (13%).

Docker 62 15% required in 82% · 56 open now · since Jan 2026
Terraform 56 14% required in 88% · 40 open now · since Jan 2026
Git 55 14% required in 95% · 43 open now · since Jan 2026
Rest API 51 13% required in 88% · 41 open now · since Jan 2026
CloudFormation 36 9% required in 92% · 28 open now · since Jan 2026
Ansible 33 8% required in 91% · 25 open now · since Jan 2026
Jenkins 23 6% required in 91% · 23 open now · since Jan 2026
Prometheus 18 4% required in 67% · 16 open now · since Apr 2026
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Microsoft Excel17
Gradle15
Hyper-V12
Model Context Protocol11
pySpark10
Helm8
ArgoCD7
Copilot7
Canva7
Maven6
Talend6
Nessus6
Gazebo5
GraphQL5
Apache HTTP Server4
IBM MQ4
KVM4
Loki4
Sketch4
Claude Code4
Semantic Kernel4
Adobe Photoshop3
Bicep3
Blender3
FortiGate3
Fusion 3603
Portkey3
Puppet3
SolidWorks3
Vault3
dbt3
Cursor3

And 45 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does NCS use?

LLM is named in 10% of job postings at NCS, followed by Qwen (3%), DeepSeek (3%), Claude (2%).

LLM 42 10% required in 93% · 36 open now · since Feb 2026
Qwen 14 3% required in 100% · 12 open now · since Apr 2026
DeepSeek 13 3% required in 100% · 11 open now · since Apr 2026
Claude 7 2% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Apr 2026
Gemini 5 1% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Apr 2026
Gaussian Splatting 3 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
LoRA 3 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Apr 2026
Mistral 3 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Apr 2026
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PEFT3
VLM2
MiniMax2
Whisper2
AWQ1
ChatGPT1
GPTQ1
LLaVA1
QLoRA1

Which engineering practices does NCS ask for?

CI/CD is named in 27% of job postings at NCS, followed by AI Agents (12%), Machine Learning (11%), RAG (10%).

CI/CD 110 27% required in 92% · 93 open now · since Jan 2026
AI Agents 49 12% required in 100% · 42 open now · since Feb 2026
Machine Learning 45 11% required in 87% · 35 open now · since Mar 2026
RAG 40 10% required in 93% · 35 open now · since Feb 2026
Incident Management 28 7% required in 96% · 16 open now · since Jan 2026
IAM 27 7% required in 96% · 22 open now · since Jan 2026
TCP/IP 26 6% required in 100% · 18 open now · since Apr 2026
DNS 22 5% required in 91% · 16 open now · since Jan 2026
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VPN22
Prompt Engineering21
ETL/ELT20
Agentic Workflows18
LLM Guardrails18
SOAP16
Fine-tuning14
Platform Engineering14
LLMOps14
Embeddings12
Multi-Agent Systems12
Configuration Management12
PKI12
DHCP11
BGP9
FinOps9
Wi-Fi8
Human-in-the-Loop8
NLP8
Hallucination7
GitOps7
Function Calling7
Hybrid Search6
OSPF6
Computer Vision6
LLM Evaluation5
Physical AI5
SLI/SLO/SLA5
Semantic Search5
Reinforcement Learning5
AIOps4
Anomaly Detection4

And 46 more, each named in fewer postings.

What other technologies does NCS use?

SAP Workflow is named in <1% of job postings at NCS.

SAP Workflow 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026

What does each NCS team work with?

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

DevOps

58 postings
AWS32
Azure30
Terraform23
CloudFormation19
PowerShell19
Kubernetes18

Backend

49 postings
React.js16
SQL16
Python15
Rest API15
JavaScript14
Angular13

AI/ML

40 postings
Python29
LLM22
AWS17
Azure17
GCP12
LangGraph12

Data Science

33 postings
SQL24
Python21
AWS16
Spark13
Azure12
Apache Kafka10

Security

30 postings
AWS17
PowerShell13
Python13
Terraform12
SIEM11
Azure10

Enterprise Apps

30 postings
Rest API13
Java10
SQL7
JavaScript6
.NET5
ABAP5

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How is the NCS 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
dplyrOct 2026
AWS GlueOct 2026
JuliaOct 2026
Docker SwarmOct 2026
IBM QRadarOct 2026
PydanticOct 2026
TrinoOct 2026
DuckDBOct 2026
Rising
GCP14% → 23%
LLM5% → 12%
Windows Server2% → 9%
DNS3% → 8%
Qwen1% → 6%
TCP/IP5% → 9%
LangGraph1% → 5%
Fine-tuning1% → 5%
Falling
Git23% → 9%
Java24% → 15%
PostgreSQL11% → 5%
Node JS9% → 3%
Gradle8% → 2%
Spring Boot8% → 3%
TensorFlow4% → 0%
Spring Framework4% → 0%
Not named for 6 months
Service MeshMay 2026
Speech RecognitionMay 2026
DeepgramApr 2026
TwilioApr 2026
WhisperApr 2026
gRPCApr 2026
OpenAI Agents SDKApr 2026
LiveKitApr 2026

How modern is the NCS stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 78/100

NCS 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: 17; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the NCS stack in its industry?

Share of the 6,146 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

AWS58%
Python67%
Azure62%
JavaScript58%
GCP41%
SQL63%
Kubernetes46%
Java43%
Linux42%
Windows37%

What sets NCS apart

Qwen1%
DeepSeek1%
vLLM4%
Milvus3%
Bamboo2%

Questions about the NCS tech stack

What programming languages does NCS use?

The languages named in NCS job postings are Python (38%), JavaScript (19%), SQL (19%), Java (17%), TypeScript (10%), as a share of the 403 postings of the last 12 months.

Does NCS use React.js?

Yes. React.js is named in 33 of 403 job postings (8%) and required in 31 of them.

What cloud and platforms does NCS use?

The cloud and platforms named in NCS job postings are AWS (158), Azure (148), GCP (77) (postings in brackets).

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

DevOps postings at NCS most often require AWS (32), Azure (30), Terraform (23), CloudFormation (19), out of 58 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the NCS tech stack changing?

Yes. dplyr, AWS Glue, Julia, Docker Swarm first appeared in NCS job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the NCS tech stack?

NCS 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: 17; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the NCS tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting NCS publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 403 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, "NCS tech stack: 423 technologies from 403 job postings", as of Nov 11, 2026. https://alion.io/company/ncs-co/technologies

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