NielsenIQ
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NielsenIQ tech stack

NielsenIQ builds mostly with Python, SQL, JavaScript, Java. Its stack also includes Azure, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Angular. Python is named in 277 of the 630 job postings NielsenIQ published in the last 12 months (44%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of NielsenIQ, updated Nov 10, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 10, 2026
Technologies in use
320
Postings analysed
630
Open now
118
Modernity
79 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does NielsenIQ use?

Python is named in 44% of job postings at NielsenIQ, followed by SQL (38%), JavaScript (16%), Java (11%).

Python 277 44% required in 88% · 56 open now · since Nov 2025
SQL 241 38% required in 86% · 43 open now · since Aug 2025
JavaScript 99 16% required in 74% · 11 open now · since Jun 2026
Java 69 11% required in 86% · 9 open now · since Nov 2025
TypeScript 61 10% required in 72% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
C# 30 5% required in 83% · 3 open now · since Jun 2026
Node JS 23 4% required in 70% · 2 open now · since Jun 2026
SPSS 20 3% required in 95% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
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Scala15
Sass9
PowerShell9
Bash8
Kotlin6
C++5
PHP4
Perl3
F#2
Go2
SAS2
Swift2
Cython2
C2
Dart2
Groovy1
MATLAB1
Ruby1
ABAP1
Rust1

What frameworks and libraries does NielsenIQ use?

Angular is named in 8% of job postings at NielsenIQ, followed by LangChain (5%), React.js (4%), Selenium (4%).

Angular 48 8% required in 92% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
LangChain 29 5% required in 69% · 6 open now · since Jun 2026
React.js 28 4% required in 61% · 3 open now · since Jun 2026
Selenium 26 4% required in 65% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
Spring Boot 25 4% required in 84% · 4 open now · since Jun 2026
Playwright 23 4% required in 91% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
Pandas 23 4% required in 78% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
FastAPI 18 3% required in 78% · 5 open now · since Jun 2026
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NumPy14
Pytest14
LangGraph14
Scrapy13
Flask11
Polars11
PyTorch9
Cypress9
JUnit8
HTTPX7
Jest7
Scikit-learn7
AutoGen7
CrewAI7
Hadoop7
ASP.NET Core7
Celery7
Asyncio6
Django6
Hibernate6
FAISS6
TestNG6
Rest-Assured5
TensorFlow5
Beautiful Soup4
Mockito4
NgRx4
RxJS4
SQLAlchemy4
Spring Data JPA4
Spring Framework4
Cohere SDK4

And 28 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does NielsenIQ use?

PostgreSQL is named in 8% of job postings at NielsenIQ, followed by Snowflake (7%), MySQL (3%), Oracle (2%).

PostgreSQL 51 8% required in 80% · 8 open now · since Aug 2025
Snowflake 43 7% required in 84% · 10 open now · since Nov 2025
MySQL 17 3% required in 88% · 1 open now · since Aug 2025
Oracle 15 2% required in 80% · since Aug 2026
MS SQL 13 2% required in 92% · 2 open now · since Aug 2025
Redis 12 2% required in 92% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
ElasticSearch 11 2% required in 73% · 3 open now · since Jun 2026
Google BigQuery 10 2% required in 70% · 5 open now · since Apr 2026
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Delta Lake10
InfluxDB8
Pinecone8
Weaviate7
Azure Cosmos DB6
DynamoDB6
Neo4j6
Apache Iceberg5
OpenSearch4
Amazon Redshift3
Azure SQL Database2
Chroma2
Db22
GraphDB2
Memgraph2
Milvus2
Trino2
SQLite2
SAP HANA1
MongoDB1

What cloud and platforms does NielsenIQ use?

Azure is named in 32% of job postings at NielsenIQ, followed by Kubernetes (18%), AWS (17%), Power BI (15%).

Azure 202 32% required in 80% · 30 open now · since Aug 2025
Kubernetes 111 18% required in 68% · 15 open now · since Nov 2025
AWS 104 17% required in 75% · 18 open now · since Nov 2025
Power BI 92 15% required in 79% · 20 open now · since Aug 2025
GCP 87 14% required in 70% · 20 open now · since Apr 2026
GitHub 70 11% required in 86% · 9 open now · since Mar 2026
GitHub Actions 51 8% required in 84% · 7 open now · since Jul 2026
Databricks 49 8% required in 76% · 16 open now · since Mar 2026
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Spark44
Azure DevOps38
Linux37
Apache Kafka36
Tableau35
OpenAI30
Unix24
Azure AKS18
GitLab18
Bitbucket18
Grafana18
.NET17
GitLab CI15
Datadog14
Airflow12
Looker10
AWS Lambda10
Prefect9
Figma9
Amazon S39
SonarQube9
MLFlow9
AWS Step Functions8
Windows8
Postman8
Amazon Kinesis8
RabbitMQ8
Copilot Studio7
Hugging Face7
Google Cloud Run7
Microsoft Fabric5
CyberArk4

And 35 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does NielsenIQ use?

Microsoft Excel is named in 23% of job postings at NielsenIQ, followed by Docker (15%), Git (13%), Copilot (9%).

Microsoft Excel 143 23% required in 92% · 35 open now · since Jun 2026
Docker 96 15% required in 70% · 15 open now · since Nov 2025
Git 83 13% required in 84% · 9 open now · since Jul 2026
Copilot 57 9% required in 77% · 7 open now · since May 2026
Rest API 53 8% required in 85% · 13 open now · since Jun 2026
Terraform 49 8% required in 67% · 7 open now · since May 2026
Jenkins 40 6% required in 88% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
pySpark 28 4% required in 79% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
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CloudFormation19
Bicep14
Prometheus14
dbt13
Model Context Protocol11
Pulumi11
Azure Data Factory10
Helm10
JMeter10
Charles Proxy7
Ghidra7
Great Expectations7
IDA Pro7
WebSockets7
Ansible7
Frida6
GraphQL6
Swagger5
Vault5
HashiCorp Vault5
QGIS5
Semantic Kernel4
k64
Adobe Photoshop3
Canva3
Gradle3
Maven3
SSIS3
Spinnaker3
CodeQL3
Apache HTTP Server2
ArgoCD2

And 24 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does NielsenIQ use?

LLM is named in 6% of job postings at NielsenIQ, followed by ChatGPT (2%), Llama (1%), Mistral (1%).

LLM 40 6% required in 85% · 8 open now · since Jun 2026
ChatGPT 11 2% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Aug 2026
Llama 4 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
Mistral 4 1% required in 75% · since Jul 2026
Claude 3 <1% required in 100% · since Jul 2026

Which engineering practices does NielsenIQ ask for?

CI/CD is named in 27% of job postings at NielsenIQ, followed by Machine Learning (12%), AI Agents (8%), ETL/ELT (7%).

CI/CD 173 27% required in 86% · 24 open now · since Nov 2025
Machine Learning 76 12% required in 89% · 20 open now · since Mar 2026
AI Agents 52 8% required in 92% · 11 open now · since Mar 2026
ETL/ELT 41 7% required in 95% · 8 open now · since Apr 2026
RAG 38 6% required in 58% · 6 open now · since Jun 2026
IAM 25 4% required in 64% · 5 open now · since Jun 2026
Prompt Engineering 24 4% required in 71% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
Platform Engineering 16 3% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Aug 2026
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Incident Management16
Anomaly Detection13
FinOps12
LLM Guardrails11
Time Series11
Function Calling10
Embeddings9
Dimensional Modeling9
NLP9
Semantic Search8
Data Vault7
Human-in-the-Loop6
Fine-tuning6
Feature Store6
Blue-Green Deployment5
Multi-Agent Systems5
DNS4
Dependency Injection4
Chain-of-Thought4
A/B Testing3
Configuration Management3
EU AI Act3
Agentic Workflows3
SLI/SLO/SLA3
SOAP3
MVVM3
LLMOps3
Context Engineering2
Recommender Systems2
VPN2
GitOps2
Clean Architecture2

And 12 more, each named in fewer postings.

What does each NielsenIQ team work with?

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

Analytics

136 postings
Microsoft Excel61
SQL46
Python40
Power BI29
Copilot13
Tableau12

Backend

105 postings
SQL49
Azure47
JavaScript42
Python42
Docker34
Git31

Data Science

90 postings
Python79
SQL58
Azure38
AWS22
Databricks19
Snowflake18

AI/ML

37 postings
Python27
Azure12
LLM12
Docker11
SQL11
Kubernetes10

Customer Success

32 postings
Microsoft Excel25
Power BI5
Tableau3
SPSS2

Management

30 postings
Power BI10
Copilot5
Java5
C#3
PostgreSQL3
ChatGPT2

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How much does NielsenIQ pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all NielsenIQ postings with stated pay: $54k across 167 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Python56$62k+16%
SQL44$54k0%
Power BI27$33k−38%
JavaScript25$63k+17%
Azure21$90k+69%
AWS16$63k+18%
GCP15$62k+17%
LLM14$101k+89%
Linux13$63k+18%
Tableau12$30k−44%

How is the NielsenIQ 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
F#Nov 2026
Orca SecurityNov 2026
WizNov 2026
DynatraceOct 2026
New RelicOct 2026
TrinoOct 2026
COct 2026
Blue-Green DeploymentSep 2026
Rising
Microsoft Excel6% → 26%
Power BI10% → 16%
Git8% → 14%
Rest API4% → 9%
GitHub Actions5% → 9%
Azure DevOps4% → 7%
SPSS1% → 4%
Platform Engineering0% → 3%
Falling
Machine Learning23% → 9%
GitHub19% → 9%
AWS24% → 15%
GCP20% → 12%
Spark12% → 6%
Databricks11% → 7%
ETL/ELT10% → 6%
Bitbucket6% → 2%

How modern is the NielsenIQ stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 79/100

NielsenIQ scores 79 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: 5; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the NielsenIQ stack in its industry?

Share of the 598 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Python55%
SQL46%
Azure23%
Kubernetes22%
AWS35%
JavaScript38%
Power BI21%
GCP21%
GitHub16%
Java14%

What sets NielsenIQ apart

Spring Boot3%
Unix3%
Azure AKS3%
Bitbucket3%
GitLab CI4%
Oracle3%
Scala4%
Pytest3%
Scrapy1%
Airflow3%

Questions about the NielsenIQ tech stack

What programming languages does NielsenIQ use?

The languages named in NielsenIQ job postings are Python (44%), SQL (38%), JavaScript (16%), Java (11%), TypeScript (10%), as a share of the 630 postings of the last 12 months.

Does NielsenIQ use Angular?

Yes. Angular is named in 48 of 630 job postings (8%) and required in 44 of them.

What cloud and platforms does NielsenIQ use?

The cloud and platforms named in NielsenIQ job postings are Azure (202), Kubernetes (111), AWS (104) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Analytics job at NielsenIQ?

Analytics postings at NielsenIQ most often require Microsoft Excel (61), SQL (46), Python (40), Power BI (29), out of 136 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the NielsenIQ tech stack changing?

Yes. F#, Orca Security, Wiz, Dynatrace first appeared in NielsenIQ job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the NielsenIQ tech stack?

NielsenIQ scores 79 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: 5; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the NielsenIQ tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting NielsenIQ publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 630 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Nov 10, 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, "NielsenIQ tech stack: 320 technologies from 630 job postings", as of Nov 10, 2026. https://alion.io/company/nielseniq/technologies

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