NCS tech stack

NCS builds mostly with Python, JavaScript, Java, SQL. Its stack also includes AWS, Azure, PostgreSQL, React.js. AWS is named in 109 of the 290 job postings NCS published in the last 12 months (38%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of NCS, updated Sep 26, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 26, 2026
Technologies in use
379
Postings analysed
290
Open now
269
Modernity
78 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does NCS use?

Python is named in 37% of job postings at NCS, followed by JavaScript (20%), Java (17%), SQL (16%).

Python 108 37% required in 87% · 98 open now · since Jan 2026
JavaScript 57 20% required in 40% · 51 open now · since Jan 2026
Java 48 17% required in 71% · 43 open now · since Jan 2026
SQL 46 16% required in 93% · 42 open now · since Jan 2026
TypeScript 30 10% required in 57% · 26 open now · since Feb 2026
PowerShell 28 10% required in 100% · 26 open now · since Jan 2026
C# 19 7% required in 26% · 15 open now · since Mar 2026
Node JS 17 6% required in 47% · 17 open now · since Jan 2026
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C++15
PHP12
ABAP11
Bash9
Perl7
C6
Go4
Kotlin4
Ruby3
COBOL2
R2
Apex1
Scala1

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 24 8% required in 92% · 20 open now · since Feb 2026
LangChain 21 7% required in 67% · 21 open now · since Apr 2026
Angular 18 6% required in 94% · 14 open now · since Feb 2026
LangGraph 15 5% required in 87% · 15 open now · since Apr 2026
LlamaIndex 13 4% required in 92% · 13 open now · since Apr 2026
Spring Boot 13 4% required in 85% · 12 open now · since Feb 2026
pgvector 10 3% required in 80% · 10 open now · since Apr 2026
OpenTelemetry 9 3% required in 100% · 9 open now · since May 2026
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PyTorch9
TensorFlow8
OpenCV8
ROS7
Flink7
LiteLLM7
Playwright6
Scikit-learn5
Spring Framework5
FFmpeg5
AutoGen4
CrewAI4
FAISS4
FastAPI4
Selenium4
NumPy4
Pandas4
Unity4
Hadoop4
AWS Strands Agents3
Cypress3
Redux3
TensorFlow C++3
CUDA2
Flask2
JUnit2
Mockito2
MuJoCo2
NVIDIA PhysX2
OpenAI Agents SDK2
Plotly2
PoC Library2

And 33 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does NCS use?

PostgreSQL is named in 9% of job postings at NCS, followed by Milvus (4%), MySQL (3%), MS SQL (3%).

PostgreSQL 26 9% required in 62% · 25 open now · since Jan 2026
Milvus 11 4% required in 91% · 11 open now · since Apr 2026
MySQL 9 3% required in 100% · 9 open now · since Jan 2026
MS SQL 9 3% required in 89% · 9 open now · since Jan 2026
Weaviate 8 3% required in 88% · 8 open now · since Apr 2026
Oracle 7 2% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Jan 2026
Qdrant 7 2% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Apr 2026
Pinecone 6 2% required in 83% · 6 open now · since Apr 2026
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Delta Lake4
GraphDB4
OpenSearch4
BigQuery3
Chroma3
Google BigQuery3
DynamoDB3
Redis3
Amazon Redshift2
Azure SQL Database2
Snowflake2
Amazon Aurora1
Db21
SAP HANA1
SQLite1
ElasticSearch1

What cloud and platforms does NCS use?

AWS is named in 38% of job postings at NCS, followed by Azure (37%), Kubernetes (18%), GCP (17%).

AWS 109 38% required in 79% · 106 open now · since Jan 2026
Azure 107 37% required in 76% · 103 open now · since Jan 2026
Kubernetes 53 18% required in 85% · 53 open now · since Jan 2026
GCP 50 17% required in 76% · 49 open now · since Jan 2026
Windows 35 12% required in 97% · 32 open now · since Jan 2026
Linux 33 11% required in 91% · 30 open now · since Jan 2026
Apache Kafka 20 7% required in 85% · 19 open now · since Feb 2026
Windows Server 18 6% required in 100% · 14 open now · since Jan 2026
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VMWare18
.NET18
OpenAI17
AWS Bedrock16
Power BI16
Active Directory15
SIEM14
Grafana14
Spark14
Databricks13
Vertex AI12
Azure AKS10
vLLM10
Amazon SageMaker10
Bamboo9
Unix9
Amazon S39
Amazon EKS8
Figma8
Tableau8
Splunk8
AWS Lambda7
Anthropic7
Microsoft Entra ID7
Airflow6
Amazon CloudWatch6
Amazon EC26
Amazon ECS6
Amazon Kinesis6
API Gateway6
OpenShift6
GitLab CI6

And 54 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does NCS use?

Docker is named in 16% of job postings at NCS, followed by Git (15%), Terraform (13%), CloudFormation (8%).

Docker 46 16% required in 83% · 45 open now · since Jan 2026
Git 44 15% required in 93% · 42 open now · since Jan 2026
Terraform 37 13% required in 84% · 36 open now · since Jan 2026
CloudFormation 24 8% required in 88% · 23 open now · since Jan 2026
Rest API 23 8% required in 87% · 22 open now · since Jan 2026
Ansible 22 8% required in 91% · 21 open now · since Jan 2026
Jenkins 16 6% required in 94% · 16 open now · since Jan 2026
Prometheus 16 6% required in 69% · 16 open now · since Apr 2026
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Gradle13
Microsoft Excel13
Hyper-V11
Model Context Protocol9
pySpark7
Copilot6
ArgoCD6
Helm6
Nessus6
Canva6
Maven5
Talend5
Gazebo5
KVM4
Loki4
Sketch4
Adobe Photoshop3
Bicep3
Blender3
Braintrust3
Claude Code3
Fusion 3603
Portkey3
SolidWorks3
GraphQL3
Semantic Kernel3
Promptfoo3
A2A2
Calico2
Cilium2
Cosign2
Cursor2

And 34 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does NCS use?

LLM is named in 11% of job postings at NCS, followed by DeepSeek (4%), Qwen (4%), Claude (2%).

LLM 33 11% required in 94% · 33 open now · since Feb 2026
DeepSeek 11 4% required in 100% · 11 open now · since Apr 2026
Qwen 11 4% required in 100% · 11 open now · since Apr 2026
Claude 7 2% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Apr 2026
Gemini 4 1% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Apr 2026
Mistral 3 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Apr 2026
Gaussian Splatting 2 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
LoRA 2 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Apr 2026
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PEFT2
MiniMax2
Whisper2
AWQ1
ChatGPT1
GPTQ1
QLoRA1
VLM1

Which engineering practices does NCS ask for?

CI/CD is named in 28% of job postings at NCS, followed by AI Agents (13%), Machine Learning (12%), RAG (11%).

CI/CD 81 28% required in 90% · 78 open now · since Jan 2026
AI Agents 39 13% required in 100% · 39 open now · since Feb 2026
Machine Learning 34 12% required in 85% · 32 open now · since Mar 2026
RAG 33 11% required in 91% · 33 open now · since Feb 2026
SLI/SLO/SLA 27 9% required in 96% · 25 open now · since Jan 2026
Incident Management 23 8% required in 96% · 22 open now · since Jan 2026
LLM Guardrails 19 7% required in 89% · 19 open now · since Jan 2026
TCP/IP 18 6% required in 100% · 17 open now · since Apr 2026
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Prompt Engineering18
Edge AI17
IAM16
Agentic Workflows14
DNS14
ETL/ELT13
Platform Engineering13
VPN13
LLMOps12
Fine-tuning10
Configuration Management10
FinOps9
DHCP8
Embeddings8
Multi-Agent Systems8
Human-in-the-Loop8
Wi-Fi7
GitOps7
NLP7
Hallucination6
SOAP6
PKI6
Hybrid Search5
Computer Vision5
Tool Use5
AIOps4
Context Engineering4
LLM Evaluation4
Physical AI4
BGP4
Reinforcement Learning4
Semantic Search4

And 36 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

43 postings
AWS20
Azure19
Terraform15
Windows15
PowerShell13
CloudFormation12

AI/ML

32 postings
Python25
LLM17
AWS13
Azure13
Git10
Docker9

Solutions

30 postings
AWS12
Azure10
GCP7
Kubernetes6
LLM5
Docker4

Backend

23 postings
SQL11
Java10
Git8
React.js8
TypeScript8
Angular7

Security

21 postings
AWS12
PowerShell10
Python10
SIEM9
Terraform9
Azure7

Data Science

20 postings
SQL13
AWS10
Python10
Azure8
Apache Kafka7
Git7

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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
FortiGateSep 2026
Gaussian SplattingSep 2026
ROS2Sep 2026
SLAMSep 2026
Sensor FusionSep 2026
MiniMaxAug 2026
FlaskAug 2026
AWS Strands AgentsAug 2026
Rising
SQL12% → 19%
C++1% → 8%
Linux6% → 12%
Windows Server1% → 7%
C#4% → 9%
TCP/IP4% → 9%
PHP1% → 6%
Embeddings0% → 5%
Falling
Milvus13% → 1%
Kubernetes26% → 15%
Docker24% → 14%
LangChain15% → 5%
LangGraph13% → 3%
LlamaIndex12% → 2%
Multi-Agent Systems10% → 0%
vLLM10% → 1%
Not named for 6 months
JMeterMar 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: 16; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the NCS stack in its industry?

Share of the 1,520 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

AWS53%
Python62%
Azure55%
JavaScript55%
Kubernetes47%
GCP41%
Java42%
SQL61%
Windows30%
LLM38%

What sets NCS apart

DeepSeek1%
Qwen2%
vLLM4%
Bamboo4%
OpenCV3%

Questions about the NCS tech stack

What programming languages does NCS use?

The languages named in NCS job postings are Python (37%), JavaScript (20%), Java (17%), SQL (16%), TypeScript (10%), as a share of the 290 postings of the last 12 months.

Does NCS use React.js?

Yes. React.js is named in 24 of 290 job postings (8%) and required in 22 of them.

What cloud and platforms does NCS use?

The cloud and platforms named in NCS job postings are AWS (109), Azure (107), Kubernetes (53) (postings in brackets).

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

DevOps postings at NCS most often require AWS (20), Azure (19), Terraform (15), Windows (15), out of 43 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the NCS tech stack changing?

Yes. FortiGate, Gaussian Splatting, ROS2, SLAM 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: 16; 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 290 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, "NCS tech stack: 379 technologies from 290 job postings", as of Sep 26, 2026. https://alion.io/company/ncs-co/technologies

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