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As of 4 November 2026, Visual Studio leads ides editors debuggers with 1,836 companies naming it in job postings, ahead of Eclipse IDE at 1,214.

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

Leader
Visual Studio · 1,836
Runner-up
Eclipse IDE · 1,214
Most hiring, 90 days
Visual Studio
Highest postings per company
PyCharm
Catalogue
T-1.0.1-prov
9,534companies across the category
19%of them on Visual Studio
29,070postings naming a ides editors debugger in 90 days
40tools with enough evidence to rank
02 — Ranking

Every ides editors debugger 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
Visual StudioMicrosoft
1,836
6,4853.5
2
Eclipse IDEEclipse Foundation
1,214
5,3164.4
3
Visual Studio CodeMicrosoft
1,213
2,7622.3
4
XcodeApple
641
1,2922.0
5
Android StudioGoogle
534
9271.7
6
IntelliJ IDEAJetBrains
492
3,5457.2
7
Adobe DreamweaverAdobe
335
3801.1
8
SAP Business Application StudioSAP
270
7222.7
9
GDBGNU Project
266
8193.1
10
Serial Wire DebugArm
216
3951.8
11
Chrome DevToolsGoogle
201
3391.7
12
InstrumentsApple
181
3562.0
13
RStudioPosit
164
2581.6
14
VimVim project
137
3202.3
15
Charles ProxyXK72
115
2071.8
16
Android Debug BridgeGoogle
114
2392.1
17
FiddlerProgress (Telerik)
112
2352.1
18
WinDbgMicrosoft
102
3253.2
19
JetBrainsJetBrains
89
4224.7
20
IAR Embedded WorkbenchIAR Systems
87
1471.7
21
NVIDIA NsightNVIDIA
84
1942.3
22
Oxygen XML EditorSyncro Soft
84
1501.8
23
Lauterbach TRACE32Lauterbach
83
3183.8
24
NetBeansApache Software Foundation
80
1321.6
25
PyCharmJetBrains
77
1,03913.5
26
KeilArm
75
1061.4
27
FirebugMozilla
71
660.9
28
ValgrindValgrind Developers
71
2092.9
29
PhpStormJetBrains
62
811.3
30
perfLinux Foundation
61
1993.3
31
ftraceLinux Foundation
58
1412.4
32
vi
55
1041.9
33
NVIDIA Nsight ComputeNVIDIA
54
1262.3
34
JetBrains RiderJetBrains
53
1322.5
35
Dev ContainersDevelopment Containers
48
791.6
36
Oracle JDeveloperOracle
43
581.3
37
LogcatGoogle
42
1563.7
38
Event Tracing for WindowsMicrosoft
39
1052.7
39
LLDBLLVM Project
38
922.4
40
ABAP Development ToolsSAP
37
922.5
03 — Head to head

Compare two tools

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

Visual Studio vs Eclipse IDE1,836 · 1,214Visual Studio vs Visual Studio Code1,836 · 1,213Visual Studio vs Xcode1,836 · 641Visual Studio vs Android Studio1,836 · 534Visual Studio vs IntelliJ IDEA1,836 · 492Eclipse IDE vs Visual Studio Code1,214 · 1,213Eclipse IDE vs Xcode1,214 · 641Eclipse IDE vs Android Studio1,214 · 534Eclipse IDE vs IntelliJ IDEA1,214 · 492Visual Studio Code vs Xcode1,213 · 641Visual Studio Code vs Android Studio1,213 · 534Visual Studio Code vs IntelliJ IDEA1,213 · 492Xcode vs Android Studio641 · 534Xcode vs IntelliJ IDEA641 · 492Android Studio vs IntelliJ IDEA534 · 492
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Visual Studio leads ides editors debuggers with 1,836 companies naming it in job postings, ahead of Eclipse IDE at 1,214. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/tools/category/ides-editors-debuggers)
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

ides editors debuggers: 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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