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Nokia tech stack

Nokia builds mostly with Python, C++, SQL, Java. Its stack also includes Linux, Kubernetes, Robot Framework, PostgreSQL. Python is named in 222 of the 472 job postings Nokia published in the last 12 months (47%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Nokia, updated Nov 12, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 12, 2026
Technologies in use
301
Postings analysed
472
Open now
211
Modernity
79 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Nokia use?

Python is named in 47% of job postings at Nokia, followed by C++ (17%), SQL (12%), Java (7%).

Python 222 47% required in 85% · 92 open now · since Mar 2026
C++ 80 17% required in 94% · 37 open now · since Mar 2026
SQL 57 12% required in 61% · 26 open now · since Jan 2026
Java 33 7% required in 85% · 8 open now · since Jul 2026
JavaScript 29 6% required in 66% · 8 open now · since Jul 2026
C# 27 6% required in 41% · 16 open now · since Jan 2026
Bash 24 5% required in 88% · 10 open now · since Aug 2026
MATLAB 24 5% required in 79% · 20 open now · since Aug 2026
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Perl22
Go21
PowerShell12
Verilog9
TypeScript7
VHDL6
C6
Node JS5
SystemVerilog5
Visual Basic4
ABAP3
Rust2
PHP2
Assembly1
Embedded C1
Ruby1
SAS1
TCL Scripting1

What frameworks and libraries does Nokia use?

Robot Framework is named in 3% of job postings at Nokia, followed by OpenTelemetry (3%), React.js (2%), Pytest (2%).

Robot Framework 16 3% required in 75% · 3 open now · since Jun 2026
OpenTelemetry 12 3% required in 67% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
React.js 10 2% required in 90% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
Pytest 9 2% required in 89% · 5 open now · since Jul 2026
Selenium 9 2% required in 56% · 2 open now · since Jun 2026
Spring Boot 8 2% required in 88% · since Aug 2026
PyTorch 8 2% required in 63% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
TensorFlow 8 2% required in 63% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
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LangChain6
Cypress4
LangGraph4
Google Test3
STL3
UVM3
ASP.NET Core3
Angular3
AutoGen3
CrewAI3
Django2
Flask2
SDL2
CUDA2
Scikit-learn2
pgvector2
Jest2
Blazor1
FastAPI1
Flink1
LlamaIndex1
Metasploit1
OpenAI Agents SDK1
SAP UI51
Hazelcast1
Hibernate1
JOOQ1
JQuery1
JUnit1
Matplotlib1
Mocha1
NumPy1

What databases does Nokia use?

PostgreSQL is named in 3% of job postings at Nokia, followed by MariaDB (3%), ClickHouse (2%), MySQL (1%).

PostgreSQL 14 3% required in 50% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
MariaDB 12 3% required in 50% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
ClickHouse 8 2% required in 50% · since Sep 2026
MySQL 7 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
MS SQL 6 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
Cassandra 6 1% required in 83% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
Neo4j 4 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
Oracle 4 1% required in 75% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
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Azure SQL Database2
ElasticSearch2
Vertica2
Google BigQuery2
Redis2
Amazon Redshift1
Delta Lake1
Memcached1
Pinecone1
Weaviate1

What cloud and platforms does Nokia use?

Linux is named in 26% of job postings at Nokia, followed by Kubernetes (21%), Azure (10%), OpenShift (9%).

Linux 124 26% required in 85% · 36 open now · since Mar 2026
Kubernetes 98 21% required in 85% · 21 open now · since Mar 2026
Azure 47 10% required in 60% · 15 open now · since Jan 2026
OpenShift 42 9% required in 83% · 3 open now · since Jun 2026
Apache Kafka 33 7% required in 76% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
AWS 29 6% required in 72% · 9 open now · since Jun 2026
Power BI 29 6% required in 69% · 11 open now · since Aug 2026
GCP 24 5% required in 67% · 6 open now · since Jun 2026
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.NET20
GitLab CI15
RTOS15
Azure DevOps14
Unix13
Windows12
Red Hat10
GitHub10
Bitbucket10
GitLab7
VMWare7
SIEM6
Databricks5
OpenAI5
FreeRTOS4
Istio4
CentOS Stream4
Grafana4
RabbitMQ4
Microsoft Defender3
Microsoft Sentinel3
Postman3
Qualys Cloud Platform3
Wazuh3
LDAP2
U-Boot2
Windows Server2
Copilot Studio2
Microsoft Fabric2
Spark2
Active Directory1
Anthropic1

And 16 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Nokia use?

Docker is named in 13% of job postings at Nokia, followed by Git (12%), Rest API (9%), Jenkins (8%).

Docker 61 13% required in 72% · 13 open now · since Mar 2026
Git 55 12% required in 67% · 19 open now · since Mar 2026
Rest API 41 9% required in 95% · 9 open now · since Jul 2026
Jenkins 39 8% required in 82% · 2 open now · since Mar 2026
Cursor 26 6% required in 77% · 8 open now · since Aug 2026
Helm 24 5% required in 79% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
Copilot 22 5% required in 59% · 8 open now · since Jan 2026
Microsoft Excel 14 3% required in 93% · 7 open now · since Sep 2026
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gRPC14
OpenStack13
Ansible13
KVM11
VictoriaMetrics11
Wireshark7
AutoCAD6
Gerrit6
JMP5
Model Context Protocol5
Prometheus4
Terraform4
Cadence Virtuoso3
JTAG Debuggers3
Mandiant capa3
Nessus3
Canva3
SolidWorks3
Webpack3
Gradle3
AgentOps2
Apache Tomcat2
ArgoCD2
Azure Data Factory2
FluxCD2
Protobuf2
Synopsys Fusion Compiler2
Synopsys PrimeTime2
WebRTC2
ZooKeeper2
Envoy2
QEMU2

And 46 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Nokia use?

LLM is named in 3% of job postings at Nokia, followed by Claude (3%), ChatGPT (1%), BERT (1%).

LLM 14 3% required in 71% · 6 open now · since Aug 2026
Claude 12 3% required in 75% · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
ChatGPT 5 1% required in 20% · 3 open now · since Aug 2026
BERT 3 1% required in 67% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026

Which engineering practices does Nokia ask for?

CI/CD is named in 20% of job postings at Nokia, followed by AI Agents (10%), MPLS (9%), TCP/IP (7%).

CI/CD 93 20% required in 86% · 21 open now · since Mar 2026
AI Agents 46 10% required in 91% · 16 open now · since Aug 2026
MPLS 41 9% required in 88% · 22 open now · since Jun 2026
TCP/IP 31 7% required in 81% · 18 open now · since Jul 2026
BGP 24 5% required in 79% · 13 open now · since Jul 2026
Machine Learning 22 5% required in 95% · 9 open now · since Apr 2026
OSPF 21 4% required in 81% · 10 open now · since Jul 2026
VLAN 19 4% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Jul 2026
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Wi-Fi19
Layer 218
RAG16
Statistical Process Control14
SOAP13
CAPA12
Anomaly Detection11
Incident Management11
DNS10
ETL/ELT10
Prompt Engineering10
DHCP8
GitOps8
Time Series7
Agentic Workflows6
Platform Engineering6
IAM5
Photolithography5
SLI/SLO/SLA4
Service Mesh4
VPN4
Embeddings4
AIOps4
FMEA3
Plasma Etch3
Configuration Management2
Function Calling2
Self-Healing2
Verification & Validation2
CVD2
Design of Experiments2
Ellipsometry2

And 28 more, each named in fewer postings.

What other technologies does Nokia use?

ABAP on HANA is named in <1% of job postings at Nokia, followed by CDS Views (<1%), SAP Workflow (<1%).

ABAP on HANA 1 <1% required in 100% · since Sep 2026
CDS Views 1 <1% required in 100% · since Sep 2026
SAP Workflow 1 <1% required in 100% · since Sep 2026

What does each Nokia team work with?

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

Industrial Engineering

90 postings
Python30
Linux25
Kubernetes15
SQL14
C++13
Docker12

Hardware

60 postings
Python29
C++17
Linux11
Verilog8
MATLAB7
Git5

Backend

50 postings
C++21
Kubernetes20
Python20
Linux18
Apache Kafka11
Go11

QA

38 postings
Python31
Kubernetes10
Linux9
Git7
Jenkins7
Helm6

Early Careers

30 postings
Python11
Linux7
Power BI6
Kubernetes5
JavaScript4
Microsoft Excel4

Sales

26 postings
C++17
Python14
Go2
RTOS2
U-Boot2

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How is the Nokia 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
ArgoCDOct 2026
IstioOct 2026
Service MeshOct 2026
CVDOct 2026
EllipsometryOct 2026
PhotolithographyOct 2026
Plasma EtchOct 2026
Verification & ValidationOct 2026
Rising
AI Agents4% → 11%
Power BI0% → 7%
Helm0% → 6%
Git8% → 12%
MATLAB2% → 6%
RAG0% → 4%
Machine Learning2% → 5%
Microsoft Excel0% → 3%
Falling
Wi-Fi15% → 3%
MPLS19% → 8%
KVM12% → 1%
SQL21% → 11%
.NET13% → 3%
C++25% → 16%
C#13% → 5%
GCP12% → 4%

How modern is the Nokia stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 79/100

Nokia 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: 4; legacy ones: 1.

How common is the Nokia stack in its industry?

Share of the 560 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Python60%
Linux52%
Kubernetes38%
C++28%
SQL49%
Azure34%
OpenShift13%
Apache Kafka25%
Java34%
AWS35%

What sets Nokia apart

FreeRTOS3%

Questions about the Nokia tech stack

What programming languages does Nokia use?

The languages named in Nokia job postings are Python (47%), C++ (17%), SQL (12%), Java (7%), JavaScript (6%), as a share of the 472 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Nokia use Robot Framework?

Yes. Robot Framework is named in 16 of 472 job postings (3%) and required in 12 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Nokia use?

The cloud and platforms named in Nokia job postings are Linux (124), Kubernetes (98), Azure (47) (postings in brackets).

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

Industrial Engineering postings at Nokia most often require Python (30), Linux (25), Kubernetes (15), SQL (14), out of 90 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Nokia tech stack changing?

Yes. ArgoCD, Istio, Service Mesh, CVD first appeared in Nokia job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Nokia tech stack?

Nokia 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: 4; legacy ones: 1.

How does Alion know the Nokia tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Nokia publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 472 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Nov 12, 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, "Nokia tech stack: 301 technologies from 472 job postings", as of Nov 12, 2026. https://alion.io/company/nokia/technologies

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