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Companies using PXE_

As of 4 November 2026, 158 companies name PXE 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
IT operations & business systems · 223 postings
Hiring on it, last 30 days
137 companies
Most often alongside
Linux · 186 companies
158companies show PXE, all sources
0on their website or in DNS records
158name it in their own job postings
402postings naming PXE, last 90 days
02 — Two ways we see a tool

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

Job postings158

Companies whose own postings say the team works in PXE. 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 PXE. The rest of the posting population (158) runs PXE without a public trace on the site or in DNS, which is where job data earns its place.

03 — Who uses it

Companies on PXE

Companies with 201+ employees and high-confidence evidence in their own postings; job boards and portals left out.

Louisiana State UniversityUniversities · Baton Rouge, United States1001-5000 employeesGeneral Dynamics Mission SystemsDefence systems manufacturers · Chantilly, United States10,001+ employeesZiplineCourier & express delivery · United States1001-5000 employeesTermaDefence systems manufacturers · Lystrup, Denmark1001-5000 employeesMicrosoftMicrosoft cloud specialist · Sweden10,001+ employeesRTXDefence systems manufacturers · Arlington, United States10,001+ employeesTower ResearchMarket research providers · United States501-1000 employeesVultrCloud hosting & paas platforms · United States201-500 employeesGeneral MotorsPassenger car & light truck manufacturers · Detroit, United States10,001+ employeesNVIDIAGpu cloud & ai compute · Santa Clara, United States10,001+ employeesG-ResearchInvestment research services · London, United Kingdom201-500 employeesEquinixGpu cloud & ai compute · United States10,001+ employeesNeuralinkMedical device manufacturers · 201-500 employeesCorningOther chemicals & materials production · Corning, United States10,001+ employeesPratt & Whitney KaliszAircraft manufacturers · Kalisz, Poland1001-5000 employeesFive9CRM software · San Ramon, United States1001-5000 employeesBRPOther vehicle & transport equipment manufacturing · Valcourt, United States10,001+ employeesIonQGpu cloud & ai compute · College Park, United States201-500 employeesOctaveGeneral engineering consultancy · United States1001-5000 employeesRange Generation Next LLC (RGNext)Other aerospace & defence manufacturing · Melbourne, United States1001-5000 employees
158 companies show PXE; 0 of them have over 1,000 employees.

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06 — Job-posting evidence

Who runs PXE inside the company

The 158 companies whose postings name PXE: by country, size and the function of the role. The second number in the function table is companies.

Postings by function
postings · companies
IT operations & business systems
223 · 133
Software engineering
153 · 83
Engineering (non-software)
19 · 16
Product, program & project management
16 · 5
Data & AI
10 · 3
skilled trades and field service
8 · 4
Customer service & success
4 · 4
Quality, safety & environment
4 · 1
Administration & office
3 · 2
healthcare clinical
2 · 1
Posting companies by country
companiesshare
United States
10969%
Germany
128%
United Kingdom
85%
France
43%
Australia
32%
Canada
32%
Sweden
21%
Belgium
11%
Brazil
11%
Denmark
11%
Ireland
11%
India
11%
Posting companies by size
companiesshare
Self-employed
43%
2-10 employees
1912%
11-50 employees
2113%
51-200 employees
3019%
201-500 employees
149%
501-1000 employees
159%
1001-5000 employees
2616%
5001-10000 employees
74%
10,001+ employees
2214%
Hiring on it right now
postings
Postings, last 30 days
279
Postings, last 90 days
402
All open postings
519

137 companies opened a role that names PXE 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 PXE teams also ask for

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

08 — network protocols

PXE against the rest of its category

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

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

158 companies name PXE 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/pxe)
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 PXE 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

PXE data: questions

How many companies use PXE?

158 as of 4 November 2026: 0 carry PXE on their website or in their DNS records and 158 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 PXE'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 PXE. 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 PXE, 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 158 with verified e-mails and a weekly feed of new PXE users is in the product. Counting is free.

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