SAP tech stack

SAP builds mostly with Python, JavaScript, SQL, Java. Its stack also includes AWS, Azure, PyTorch, TensorFlow. Python is named in 167 of the 489 job postings SAP published in the last 12 months (34%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of SAP, updated Sep 26, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 26, 2026
Technologies in use
334
Postings analysed
489
Open now
485
Modernity
78 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does SAP use?

Python is named in 34% of job postings at SAP, followed by JavaScript (12%), SQL (12%), Java (10%).

Python 167 34% required in 92% · 165 open now · since Jul 2026
JavaScript 59 12% required in 71% · 59 open now · since Aug 2026
SQL 58 12% required in 90% · 58 open now · since Aug 2026
Java 50 10% required in 90% · 49 open now · since Aug 2026
Node JS 25 5% required in 92% · 25 open now · since Aug 2026
Go 24 5% required in 96% · 23 open now · since Aug 2026
TypeScript 24 5% required in 67% · 24 open now · since Aug 2026
Bash 16 3% required in 81% · 16 open now · since Aug 2026
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PowerShell12
C++10
Kotlin8
C#5
Perl3
Scala3
Swift3
Rust3
Groovy1
Objective-C1
Apex1
Dart1
PHP1

What frameworks and libraries does SAP use?

PyTorch is named in 10% of job postings at SAP, followed by TensorFlow (9%), Scikit-learn (6%), LangChain (4%).

PyTorch 50 10% required in 98% · 49 open now · since Jul 2026
TensorFlow 44 9% required in 100% · 44 open now · since Aug 2026
Scikit-learn 31 6% required in 100% · 31 open now · since Aug 2026
LangChain 21 4% required in 90% · 20 open now · since Jul 2026
CrewAI 15 3% required in 93% · 14 open now · since Jul 2026
React.js 13 3% required in 77% · 13 open now · since Aug 2026
AutoGen 12 2% required in 100% · 11 open now · since Jul 2026
LangGraph 11 2% required in 82% · 10 open now · since Jul 2026
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Angular8
Spring Boot7
Transformers6
XGBoost5
LlamaIndex5
OpenTelemetry4
FastAPI4
JUnit3
NumPy3
PoC Library3
Flask3
Vue.js3
FAISS2
Jetpack Compose2
Mockito2
Spring Framework2
TensorRT-LLM2
WebDriverIO2
Cypress2
Django2
Playwright2
Selenium2
D3.js2
JQuery2
Redux2
Appium1
Docusaurus1
Espresso1
Express1
Flutter1
Hadoop1
Keras1

And 23 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does SAP use?

ElasticSearch is named in 2% of job postings at SAP, followed by SAP BW (2%), PostgreSQL (1%), Cassandra (1%).

ElasticSearch 9 2% required in 89% · 9 open now · since Sep 2026
SAP BW 9 2% required in 89% · 9 open now · since Sep 2026
PostgreSQL 5 1% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Sep 2026
Cassandra 5 1% required in 80% · 5 open now · since Sep 2026
MySQL 5 1% required in 40% · 5 open now · since Aug 2026
Oracle 5 1% required in 40% · 5 open now · since Sep 2026
OpenSearch 3 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
Snowflake 3 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
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Neo4j3
BigQuery3
Google BigQuery3
Apache Solr2
Db22
Delta Lake2
MS SQL2
Pinecone2
Weaviate2
Teradata1
DynamoDB1
GraphDB1

What cloud and platforms does SAP use?

AWS is named in 26% of job postings at SAP, followed by Azure (25%), GCP (23%), Kubernetes (18%).

AWS 128 26% required in 86% · 128 open now · since Aug 2026
Azure 120 25% required in 87% · 120 open now · since Aug 2026
GCP 111 23% required in 86% · 111 open now · since Aug 2026
Kubernetes 88 18% required in 91% · 87 open now · since Aug 2026
Linux 51 10% required in 86% · 51 open now · since Aug 2026
Databricks 33 7% required in 100% · 33 open now · since Aug 2026
Amazon ECS 21 4% required in 86% · 21 open now · since Aug 2026
Unix 20 4% required in 75% · 20 open now · since Aug 2026
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Grafana18
Spark18
GitHub16
Apache Kafka16
GitHub Actions16
Figma15
SAP BusinessObjects14
Power BI14
Dynatrace13
Windows11
Splunk9
GitLab8
Hugging Face8
OpenAI8
Amazon EC25
LDAP5
Langfuse4
Amazon EKS4
Kibana4
Amazon S34
Istio4
AWS Bedrock3
Azure AKS3
GitLab CI3
Google GKE3
LangSmith3
MLFlow3
Tableau3
Vertex AI3
vLLM3
Red Hat3
RabbitMQ3

And 30 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does SAP use?

Docker is named in 8% of job postings at SAP, followed by Terraform (8%), Ansible (6%), Git (6%).

Docker 40 8% required in 88% · 39 open now · since Aug 2026
Terraform 40 8% required in 85% · 40 open now · since Aug 2026
Ansible 31 6% required in 84% · 31 open now · since Aug 2026
Git 27 6% required in 81% · 26 open now · since Aug 2026
Model Context Protocol 26 5% required in 96% · 25 open now · since Jul 2026
Rest API 23 5% required in 91% · 23 open now · since Aug 2026
Jenkins 19 4% required in 84% · 18 open now · since Aug 2026
Claude Code 15 3% required in 60% · 14 open now · since Jul 2026
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Helm14
Prometheus14
OpenStack13
A2A12
ArgoCD12
Microsoft Excel12
Copilot11
Canva8
Adobe Photoshop6
CloudFormation4
HashiCorp Vault4
pySpark4
Concourse4
Loki4
Chef3
Gatling3
Semantic Kernel3
AgentOps2
Cline2
Crossplane2
GraphQL2
Informatica2
JFrog Artifactory2
JMeter2
Logstash2
Maven2
cert-manager2
Cursor2
Gradle2
Kyverno2
Sketch2
TensorRT2

And 30 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does SAP use?

LLM is named in 13% of job postings at SAP, followed by Claude (2%), LoRA (1%), ChatGPT (1%).

LLM 65 13% required in 98% · 63 open now · since Jul 2026
Claude 9 2% required in 100% · 8 open now · since Jul 2026
LoRA 3 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
ChatGPT 3 1% required in 67% · 3 open now · since Aug 2026
PEFT 3 1% required in 67% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
AWQ 2 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
GPTQ 2 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
Midjourney 2 <1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
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QLoRA2
VLM1
Llama1

Which engineering practices does SAP ask for?

AI Agents is named in 47% of job postings at SAP, followed by Context Engineering (24%), CI/CD (21%), Machine Learning (18%).

AI Agents 228 47% required in 95% · 227 open now · since Jul 2026
Context Engineering 116 24% required in 92% · 116 open now · since Aug 2026
CI/CD 102 21% required in 85% · 99 open now · since Jul 2026
Machine Learning 87 18% required in 97% · 86 open now · since Aug 2026
RAG 80 16% required in 86% · 80 open now · since Aug 2026
Knowledge Graph 59 12% required in 78% · 59 open now · since Aug 2026
Multi-Agent Systems 43 9% required in 47% · 43 open now · since Aug 2026
Prompt Engineering 40 8% required in 78% · 40 open now · since Aug 2026
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Function Calling30
Embeddings29
Tool Use29
LLM Guardrails25
Platform Engineering24
Anomaly Detection15
SLI/SLO/SLA14
Semantic Search14
Semantic Search13
Agentic Workflows12
NLP12
ETL/ELT12
IAM11
LLMOps11
GitOps10
Fine-tuning10
Edge AI10
Time Series Forecasting9
Recommender Systems8
DNS8
GraphRAG8
SOAP8
Incident Management8
Web Components7
Configuration Management7
SRE6
TCP/IP6
AIOps5
Human-in-the-Loop5
Interpretability5
Master Data Management5
Hallucination5

And 38 more, each named in fewer postings.

What other technologies does SAP use?

Kotlin Coroutines is named in <1% of job postings at SAP.

Kotlin Coroutines 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026

What does each SAP team work with?

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

Enterprise Apps

115 postings
AWS35
Python34
Azure30
GCP27
Kubernetes23
Java21

DevOps

51 postings
Azure26
AWS25
GCP24
Kubernetes24
Python22
Terraform17

Sales

44 postings
Canva3
Claude2
Microsoft Excel2

AI/ML

43 postings
Python38
PyTorch20
TensorFlow17
LLM15
AWS14
Azure13

Early Careers

42 postings
Python11
JavaScript7
Power BI6
Canva4
Figma4
Microsoft Excel3

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How much does SAP pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all SAP postings with stated pay: $303k across 58 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
AWS29$306k+1%
Python27$332k+10%
Azure27$306k+1%
GCP26$306k+1%
SQL14$324k+7%
Kubernetes13$374k+24%
LLM11$306k+1%
PyTorch11$306k+1%
TensorFlow9$306k+1%
Databricks9$306k+1%

How is the SAP 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
CursorSep 2026
CrossplaneSep 2026
SnowflakeSep 2026
GraphQLSep 2026
MLFlowSep 2026
AgentOpsSep 2026
Explainable AISep 2026
DjangoSep 2026

How modern is the SAP stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 78/100

SAP 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: 11; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the SAP stack in its industry?

Share of the 2,911 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Python59%
AWS45%
Azure34%
GCP32%
Kubernetes34%
LLM39%
JavaScript50%
SQL43%
Linux20%
Java21%

What sets SAP apart

CrewAI4%
SAP BusinessObjects1%
Dynatrace2%
AutoGen4%
SAP BW0%
Transformers4%
Cassandra2%
LDAP2%
XGBoost1%

SAP products in its job postings

Postings at SAP name its own products. They describe what the company makes, so they are left out of the stack above.

ABAP119
SAP HANA89
SAP Fiori16
SAP UI55
ABAP RAP1
CDS Views3
SAP Gateway1
SAP BTP83
SAP ADT1
ABAP Objects2
ABAP Unit1
SAP OData1

Questions about the SAP tech stack

What programming languages does SAP use?

The languages named in SAP job postings are Python (34%), JavaScript (12%), SQL (12%), Java (10%), Node JS (5%), as a share of the 489 postings of the last 12 months.

Does SAP use PyTorch?

Yes. PyTorch is named in 50 of 489 job postings (10%) and required in 49 of them.

What cloud and platforms does SAP use?

The cloud and platforms named in SAP job postings are AWS (128), Azure (120), GCP (111) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Enterprise Apps job at SAP?

Enterprise Apps postings at SAP most often require AWS (35), Python (34), Azure (30), GCP (27), out of 115 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the SAP tech stack changing?

Yes. Cursor, Crossplane, Snowflake, GraphQL first appeared in SAP job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the SAP tech stack?

SAP 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: 11; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the SAP tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting SAP publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 489 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, "SAP tech stack: 334 technologies from 489 job postings", as of Sep 26, 2026. https://alion.io/company/sap-software-solutions/technologies

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