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Companies using DirectX_

As of 4 November 2026, 74 companies name DirectX in their own job postings; it leaves no trace on websites or in DNS.

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

Largest market
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Companies with 51+ staff
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Top industry
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Team that names it most
Software engineering · 214 postings
Hiring on it, last 30 days
61 companies
Most often alongside
C++ · 97 companies
74companies show DirectX, all sources
0on their website or in DNS records
74name it in their own job postings
202postings naming DirectX, last 90 days
02 — Two ways we see a tool

Where DirectX shows up

Each population is counted on its own. We never add them up without saying so, because they answer different questions.

Website and DNS footprint0

Companies whose own pages load DirectX's scripts or embeds, or whose domain's mail and hosting records (SPF, DKIM, MX, CNAME) point at DirectX. From our crawl of 41.5M company websites and the DNS sweep behind it. Reach: the tool is in the building.

Job postings74

Companies whose own postings say the team works in DirectX. Read hourly from ~70 applicant tracking systems, with the function, a quote and a date. Intent: the team that runs it is hiring.

Both0

Companies in the footprint whose postings also name DirectX. The rest of the posting population (74) runs DirectX without a public trace on the site or in DNS, which is where job data earns its place.

03 — Who uses it

Companies on DirectX

Companies with 51+ employees and at least medium-confidence evidence in their own postings; job boards and portals left out.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryUniversity research labs · Laurel, United States5001-10000 employeesSaritasaCustom software development agencies · Irvine, United States51-200 employeesIntelSemiconductor manufacturers · United States10,001+ employeesTridonicLED luminaire manufacturers · United States1001-5000 employeesIOIGame studios · København K, Denmark201-500 employeesBystronicSheet metal cutting & forming · Rosersberg, Sweden201-500 employeesWargamingGame studios · United States1001-5000 employeesUbisoftGame studios · United Kingdom10,001+ employeesNixxes SoftwareGame studios · Utrecht, Netherlands51-200 employeesVortalSoftSME managed IT services · Somerset, United States51-200 employeesSony Interactive EntertainmentGame studios · United Kingdom10,001+ employeesLEDAS Ltd.Custom software development agencies · United States51-200 employeesArmGpu cloud & ai compute · Fulbourn, United Kingdom5001-10000 employeesNVIDIAGpu cloud & ai compute · Santa Clara, United States10,001+ employeesAlarm.comAlarm monitoring centres · Tysons, United States1001-5000 employeesProcoreProject task management software · United Kingdom1001-5000 employeesDeutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)Government agencies & ministries · Hamburg, Germany10,001+ employeesHuaweiIt & telecoms provider · United States10,001+ employeesElationlightingLED luminaire manufacturers · Kerkrade, Netherlands51-200 employeesRepublic PolytechnicVocational technical schools · Singapore1001-5000 employees
74 companies show DirectX; 0 of them have over 1,000 employees.

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06 — Job-posting evidence

Who runs DirectX inside the company

The 74 companies whose postings name DirectX: by country, size and the function of the role. The second number in the function table is companies.

Postings by function
postings · companies
Software engineering
214 · 89
Engineering (non-software)
11 · 5
Data & AI
6 · 5
Product, program & project management
4 · 1
IT operations & business systems
3 · 3
Education & training
2 · 2
Marketing & communications
1 · 1
research and science
1 · 0
Unclassified
1 · 1
Posting companies by country
companiesshare
United States
4054%
United Kingdom
811%
Germany
57%
Canada
34%
Japan
34%
Netherlands
23%
Sweden
23%
Bulgaria
11%
Switzerland
11%
China
11%
Czechia
11%
Denmark
11%
Posting companies by size
companiesshare
Self-employed
11%
2-10 employees
23%
11-50 employees
1824%
51-200 employees
1216%
201-500 employees
1115%
501-1000 employees
57%
1001-5000 employees
912%
5001-10000 employees
68%
10,001+ employees
1014%
Hiring on it right now
postings
Postings, last 30 days
137
Postings, last 90 days
202
All open postings
316

61 companies opened a role that names DirectX in the last 30 days. A hiring team that names its tools is the moment to write to the person who owns the stack.

07 — Named alongside

What DirectX teams also ask for

Tools named in the same postings as DirectX. Office software is left out.

08 — game engines real time 3d

DirectX against the rest of its category

Ranked by companies naming each tool in postings. Whole category →

Cite this

Quote the sentence with the date and the link. The numbers change daily; the link always shows the current ones.

74 companies name DirectX in their own job postings; it leaves no trace on websites or in DNS, so the posting layer is the whole picture. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/tools/directx)
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 →

  • Website codeScripts, tags and embeds found on the company's own pages in our crawl of 41.5M sites. A tool counts once per company.
  • DNS recordsSPF includes, DKIM selectors, MX and CNAME records of the company's domain that point at DirectX or another vendor. Swept in cycles; dedicated mail-provider and hosting facets open once coverage passes 80% per country.
  • Job postingsRead hourly from the applicant tracking systems behind company career sites. A tool counts when the employer's own text names it as the team's system; candidate wish-lists and apply boilerplate are excluded. Confidence low, medium or high per company.
  • Sending infrastructureCold-e-mail sending domains are look-alike domains on a provider's infrastructure (DNS records, certificate logs) that redirect to the company. Absence is not evidence: only companies with a found sending domain are counted.
  • CompaniesCountry, size and industry come from the company profile we build from its website; headcount from LinkedIn where known, otherwise estimated. Job boards, portals and aggregators are kept out of lists.
FAQ

DirectX data: questions

How many companies use DirectX?

74 as of 4 November 2026: 0 carry DirectX on their website or in their DNS records and 74 name it in their own job postings; 0 show up in both. We keep the two counts apart because they measure different things.

What does "website or DNS" mean?

Our crawler finds DirectX's scripts, embeds and tags on the company's own pages, and our DNS sweep reads the domain's mail and hosting records (SPF includes, DKIM selectors, MX, CNAMEs) that point at DirectX. Either one puts the company in the footprint. The sweep is still running, so this number grows week by week.

Why is the job-posting number so much smaller?

A posting only names a tool when the team that will use it is hiring and chooses to say so. That makes it a smaller but stronger signal: it tells you which team runs DirectX, with a quote and a date. The footprint tells you reach.

How fresh is this?

Career sites are read hourly, websites are re-crawled on a rolling schedule and DNS is re-swept in cycles. The date at the top is when these counts were computed.

Can I get the list?

Yes. The first 20 are on this page; the full 74 with verified e-mails and a weekly feed of new DirectX users is in the product. Counting is free.

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