# Companies using Crossplane

We found 2,303 companies that use Crossplane. 1,484 of them name it in their own job posts, and the rest through employees' public profiles. Hiring for it has slowed, though 2,274 job posts still named it from October 2025 to August 2026. It comes up most in DevOps Engineer job posts.

Data as of November 9, 2026. Source: Sumble.

## Which companies name Crossplane in the most job posts?

Booz Allen Hamilton, FICO and Upbound mention Crossplane in the most job posts. FICO is the newest of the five companies in the table, with its first job post naming it in October 2023.

| Company | Job posts | People | Recent job post |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [Booz Allen Hamilton](https://sumble.com/orgs/booz-allen-hamilton) | 126 | 6 | "Experience with Terragrunt, Pulumi, or Crossplane" (devops engineer, Nov 6, 2026) |
| [FICO](https://sumble.com/orgs/fico) | 99 | 12 | "Build Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Crossplane, CloudFormation) for all AI/ML and database resources." (Database Engineering - Lead Engineer, Jun 12, 2026) |
| [Upbound](https://sumble.com/orgs/upbound-job-posting) | 95 | 12 | "Own the strategy for Upbound Marketplace as the distribution layer for Crossplane providers, extensions, and control plane building blocks." (sr. engineering manager, Oct 23, 2026) |
| [Nexthink](https://sumble.com/orgs/nexthink) | 94 | 3 | "Build the tooling and automation that provisions and scales it, with a real focus on resilience and elasticity, and make it self-service (Crossplane) so product teams can build on it with confidence." (Senior Platform Engineer - Data Infrastructure, Aug 5, 2026) |
| [JPMorganChase](https://sumble.com/orgs/jpmorgan-chase) | 87 | 9 | "Good-to-have platform tooling includes GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and control-plane automation approaches like Crossplane, as well as strong AWS solutions architecture depth." (Lead Software Engineer - FinOps, Cloud Platform, Aug 7, 2026) |

## Is hiring for Crossplane growing?

Hiring for Crossplane has slowed. 1.1 in every 10,000 job posts named it from June to August 2026, against 1.3 from March to May. From October to December 2025 it was 1.1.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Oct 2025 | 142 | 1,413,673 | 1.0 |
| Nov 2025 | 210 | 1,822,119 | 1.2 |
| Dec 2025 | 157 | 1,236,103 | 1.3 |
| Jan 2026 | 202 | 1,828,002 | 1.1 |
| Feb 2026 | 238 | 1,856,647 | 1.3 |
| Mar 2026 | 243 | 1,850,711 | 1.3 |
| Apr 2026 | 218 | 1,728,886 | 1.3 |
| May 2026 | 242 | 1,821,509 | 1.3 |
| Jun 2026 | 215 | 1,909,496 | 1.1 |
| Jul 2026 | 191 | 1,815,180 | 1.1 |
| Aug 2026 | 216 | 1,835,698 | 1.2 |

## How many companies named Crossplane in a job post for the first time in recent months?

127 companies named Crossplane in a job post for the first time from June to August 2026, against 110 from March to May. Over the 11 months from October 2025, 393 companies posted their first job naming it.

| Period | Companies naming it in a job post for the first time |
|---|---:|
| March to May 2026 | 110 |
| June to August 2026 | 127 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 393 |

Companies whose first job post naming it appeared in that period. Recruiters, staffing firms and job boards are left out.

## How do we know which companies use Crossplane?

1,484 companies name Crossplane in job posts they wrote, and employees' profiles add 819 more. 329 show up in both job posts and employees' profiles.

| How we know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name Crossplane | 1,484 | 64% |
| Employees' profiles list Crossplane | 819 | 36% |

## What size are the companies that use Crossplane?

No size of company stands out for Crossplane. Companies with 50 to 999 employees make up the largest group, at 43%. 469 of its companies have more than 5,000 employees.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| Under 50 employees | 19% | 22% |
| 50 to 999 | 43% | 38% |
| 1,000 to 5,000 | 18% | 17% |
| Over 5,000 | 20% | 23% |

## Where are Crossplane companies based?

The United States has the most Crossplane companies (41%), but Germany stands out: 8% of them, against 4.4% on the typical tech page. Its companies are based in 76 countries and territories.

| Country | Companies | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| United States | 894 | 41% | 43% |
| Germany | 176 | 8% | 4.4% |
| United Kingdom | 158 | 7.2% | 6.4% |
| Brazil | 104 | 4.7% | 2.8% |
| France | 89 | 4% | 4.6% |
| India | 87 | 4% | 6.9% |

## Which teams work with Crossplane?

Crossplane turns up most in job posts for platform engineering, DevOps and platform teams. Engineering and infrastructure teams follow.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| Platform engineering | 74 |
| DevOps | 46 |
| Platform | 39 |
| Engineering | 29 |
| Infrastructure | 27 |
| SRE | 16 |

## Which roles mention Crossplane most?

Crossplane shows up across many roles. The top one, DevOps Engineer, has 22% of the job posts. Platform Engineer is second, at 19%.

| Role | Share | Oct 2025 to Aug 2026 | Mar to May 2026 | Jun to Aug 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| DevOps Engineer | 22% | 500 | 138 | 131 |
| Platform Engineer | 19% | 439 | 130 | 118 |
| Software Engineer | 13% | 296 | 85 | 66 |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 9% | 204 | 74 | 43 |
| Cloud Engineer | 5.4% | 122 | 47 | 17 |
| DevSecOps Engineer | 2% | 45 | 13 | 14 |

## Which companies started naming Crossplane in job posts recently?

From April to August 2026, 152 companies with 50 or more employees posted their first job naming Crossplane: 77 commercial, 32 mid-market and 43 enterprise. Another 5 were AI-native companies, which we list separately.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| AI native | [4M Analytics](https://sumble.com/orgs/4m-analytics) | 2 |
| AI native | [Waabi](https://sumble.com/orgs/waabi) | 1 |
| AI native | [Phaidra](https://sumble.com/orgs/phaidra) | 1 |
| AI native | [Optura.AI](https://sumble.com/orgs/optura-ai) | 1 |
| AI native | [SENAI](https://sumble.com/orgs/senai-ovint) | 1 |
| Commercial | [Lynx Spa](https://sumble.com/orgs/lynx-s-p-a-) | 4 |
| Commercial | [codecentric AG](https://sumble.com/orgs/codecentric) | 4 |
| Commercial | [Schleswig-Holstein Netz GmbH](https://sumble.com/orgs/schleswig-holstein-netz) | 4 |
| Commercial | [Trade Republic](https://sumble.com/orgs/trade-republic) | 3 |
| Commercial | [Reti S.p.A.](https://sumble.com/orgs/gruppo-reti) | 3 |
| Mid-market | [Incedo Inc.](https://sumble.com/orgs/incedo-1) | 6 |
| Mid-market | [Müller Holding GmbH & Co. KG](https://sumble.com/orgs/müller-cd5b987b) | 4 |
| Mid-market | [Veepee](https://sumble.com/orgs/veepee) | 3 |
| Mid-market | [ROSEN](https://sumble.com/orgs/rosen-group) | 3 |
| Mid-market | [VECTOR Informatik](https://sumble.com/orgs/vector-informatik) | 3 |
| Enterprise | [T-Systems International](https://sumble.com/orgs/t-systems-ict-india) | 16 |
| Enterprise | [FactSet](https://sumble.com/orgs/factset) | 8 |
| Enterprise | [Cielo](https://sumble.com/orgs/cielo-1) | 6 |
| Enterprise | [The HEINEKEN Company](https://sumble.com/orgs/heineken-co) | 5 |
| Enterprise | [ServiceNow](https://sumble.com/orgs/servicenow) | 4 |

Companies that named Crossplane in a job post for the first time between April and August 2026, ranked by their job posts in those months. AI-native companies get a group of their own, whatever their size. Recruiters and job boards are left out.

## What else do Crossplane companies use?

Crossplane companies are 33 times as likely as similar companies to use Mimir: 7.9% of them, against 0.24%. Cilium comes second, 33 times as common as usual, at 9%.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Mimir | 76 | 7.9% | 0.24% | 33 times |
| Cilium | 87 | 9% | 0.27% | 33 times |
| Thanos | 68 | 7.1% | 0.27% | 26 times |
| Linkerd | 136 | 14% | 0.58% | 24 times |
| Pulumi | 315 | 33% | 1.5% | 22 times |
| OpenTofu | 102 | 11% | 0.52% | 21 times |
| Loki | 249 | 26% | 1.3% | 20 times |
| Istio | 324 | 34% | 1.7% | 20 times |

Shares are out of the 963 companies whose job posts name Crossplane, not counting firms whose job posts name almost every technology.

## Which project themes come up in Crossplane job posts?

593 job posts naming Crossplane describe Cloud Cost Optimization work, the most common theme after broad digital transformation. After that comes Cloud Migration, with 289.

| Project theme | Job posts |
|---|---:|
| Digital Transformation | 1,255 |
| Cloud Cost Optimization | 593 |
| Cloud Migration | 289 |
| Microservices Migration | 209 |

## About this data

Sumble built this page. Sumble gives sales, marketing and other GTM teams technographics and hiring signals for the companies they sell to: the technologies each company uses, which teams are hiring and for what, and who reports to whom. That helps a team know who to contact, why now, and what to say.

Sumble covers more than 3.6 million companies, 93 million job posts collected since 2022 and 194 million employee profiles, and tracks more than 37,000 technologies. It finds which technologies a company uses by reading its job posts and its employees' public profiles.

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