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As of 4 November 2026, Python leads Programming languages with 34,668 companies naming it in job postings, ahead of Java at 15,900.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Leader
Python · 34,668
Runner-up
Java · 15,900
Most hiring, 90 days
Python
Highest postings per company
Python
Catalogue
T-1.0.1-prov
124,431companies across the category
28%of them on Python
625,360postings naming a Programming language in 90 days
40tools with enough evidence to rank
02 — Ranking

Every Programming language we can measure

Companies naming the tool, and postings naming it in the last 90 days. Bars are relative to the leader.

#ToolCompaniescompaniesPostings, 90 dayspostingsper company
1
PythonPSF
34,668
248,4627.2
2
JavaOracle
15,900
97,8426.2
3
C#Microsoft
11,531
45,0323.9
4
C++ISO C++ Committee
9,805
60,9036.2
5
PHPThe PHP Group
7,302
15,9842.2
6
GoGoogle
7,047
29,0644.1
7
RR Foundation
7,002
22,7863.3
8
CISO C Committee
4,350
19,2024.4
9
KotlinJetBrains
3,247
10,1553.1
10
RustRust Foundation
2,950
11,5993.9
11
SwiftApple
2,840
8,3462.9
12
ScalaEPFL
2,062
7,4453.6
13
RubyRuby Association
1,922
6,2723.3
14
PerlThe Perl Foundation
1,808
9,4755.2
15
Salesforce ApexSalesforce
1,733
5,3543.1
16
ABAPSAP
1,491
7,0564.7
17
Visual BasicMicrosoft
1,350
3,1442.3
18
Apache GroovyApache Software Foundation
1,011
2,5402.5
19
Objective-CApple
878
1,6141.8
20
VB.NETMicrosoft
838
1,5421.8
21
DartGoogle
781
1,1051.4
22
COBOLCODASYL
522
1,8403.5
23
DelphiEmbarcadero
429
1,3663.2
24
FortranFortran Standards Committee
324
1,0903.4
25
LuaPUC-Rio
275
6682.4
26
SolidityEthereum Foundation
275
5752.1
27
Assembly Language
272
7422.7
28
JuliaJulia Project
254
5652.2
29
ElixirElixir Core Team
214
4332.0
30
RPG (IBM i)IBM
204
3611.8
31
AdaAda Core / ISO
177
8314.7
32
AL (Business Central)Microsoft
152
2901.9
33
REXXIBM
140
3842.7
34
X++Microsoft
134
2431.8
35
HLSLMicrosoft
109
1971.8
36
HaskellHaskell.org
104
2332.2
37
ClojureClojure
96
1611.7
38
Lisp
83
1892.3
39
ErlangEricsson
77
1381.8
40
F#Microsoft
74
1321.8
03 — Head to head

Compare two tools

Same data, two columns: who chooses which by size, industry and country.

Python vs Java34,668 · 15,900Python vs C#34,668 · 11,531Python vs C++34,668 · 9,805Python vs PHP34,668 · 7,302Python vs Go34,668 · 7,047Java vs C#15,900 · 11,531Java vs C++15,900 · 9,805Java vs PHP15,900 · 7,302Java vs Go15,900 · 7,047C# vs C++11,531 · 9,805C# vs PHP11,531 · 7,302C# vs Go11,531 · 7,047C++ vs PHP9,805 · 7,302C++ vs Go9,805 · 7,047PHP vs Go7,302 · 7,047
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Python leads Programming languages with 34,668 companies naming it in job postings, ahead of Java at 15,900. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/tools/category/general-purpose-languages)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • CatalogueBreaknorm technology catalogue T-1.0.1-prov: 6,296 tools with vendor and category, editions folded into their parent.
  • CompaniesCompanies whose own postings name the tool as the team's system, any confidence. Candidate wish-lists excluded.
  • 90-day postingsOpen postings first seen or posted in the last 90 days that name the tool.
  • Not countedTools used by teams that do not post jobs, and companies without a career site we can read.
FAQ

Programming languages: questions

How is this ranking made?

By the number of companies whose own job postings name the tool as the team's system, from the Breaknorm technology catalogue (version T-1.0.1-prov). No vendor paid for a position and no editor chose the order.

Why is this different from review-site rankings?

Review sites rank by reviews collected. This ranks by companies hiring people to work in the tool, which is closer to seats in use. It under-counts tools used by teams that rarely post jobs.

What about product editions?

Editions and sub-products () are counted under the parent so no company is counted twice.

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