# Companies using Debian

46,059 companies use Debian, based on their job posts and their employees' public profiles. Hiring for it has slowed, though 4,031 job posts still named it from October 2025 to August 2026. It comes up most in IT Support job posts.

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

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

Canonical leads with 711 job posts naming Debian, followed by Inetum and Capgemini. Inetum is the newest of the five companies in the table, with its first job post naming it in June 2023.

| Company | Job posts | People | Recent job post |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [Canonical](https://sumble.com/orgs/canonical) | 711 | 65 | "Packaging and Linux distribution contributions - Debian, Fedora, Arch, Nix or another" (Graduate Software Engineer, Open Source and Linux, Canonical Ubuntu, Oct 6, 2026) |
| [Inetum](https://sumble.com/orgs/inetum) | 194 | 131 | "Experience administering Linux environments (RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu) and Windows servers." (Infrastructure Engineer (Network & Automation), Oct 15, 2026) |
| [Capgemini](https://sumble.com/orgs/capgemini) | 131 | 303 | "Linux administration experience (RHEL, Debian or similar)." ( Cisco UC System & Infrastructure Administrator , Sep 22, 2026) |
| [Thales](https://sumble.com/orgs/thales) | 128 | 212 | "Vous maîtrisez la gestion de configuration et les bonnes pratiques de code via Git, et vous savez configurer les principaux OS (Windows, Debian) : droits, utilisateurs, réseau…" (Internship - Test automation and CI/CD for satellite systems - M/F, Oct 23, 2026) |
| [Qualcomm](https://sumble.com/orgs/qualcomm) | 120 | 34 | "Past experience in Linux Distros (Yocto, Ubuntu, Debian) for embedded products" (Engineer, Senior Staff/Manager - IOT Systems and Solutions Lead, Oct 21, 2026) |

## Is hiring for Debian growing?

Job posts mentioning Debian went from 2.3 to 1.9 in every 10,000 job posts, comparing March to May with June to August 2026. August 2026 was its lowest month since October 2025, at 1.8.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Oct 2025 | 306 | 1,413,673 | 2.2 |
| Nov 2025 | 436 | 1,822,119 | 2.4 |
| Dec 2025 | 253 | 1,236,103 | 2.0 |
| Jan 2026 | 359 | 1,828,002 | 2.0 |
| Feb 2026 | 400 | 1,856,647 | 2.2 |
| Mar 2026 | 463 | 1,850,711 | 2.5 |
| Apr 2026 | 397 | 1,728,886 | 2.3 |
| May 2026 | 388 | 1,821,509 | 2.1 |
| Jun 2026 | 369 | 1,909,496 | 1.9 |
| Jul 2026 | 338 | 1,815,180 | 1.9 |
| Aug 2026 | 322 | 1,835,698 | 1.8 |

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

In the three months to August 2026, 243 companies posted about Debian for the first time. From March to May, 292 did. From October 2025 to August 2026, 974 companies named it in a job post for the first time.

| Period | Companies naming it in a job post for the first time |
|---|---:|
| March to May 2026 | 292 |
| June to August 2026 | 243 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 974 |

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 Debian?

6,643 companies name Debian in job posts they wrote; employees' profiles add 39,416 more. 2,462 show up in both job posts and employees' profiles.

| How we know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name Debian | 6,643 | 14% |
| Employees' profiles list Debian | 39,416 | 86% |

## What size are the companies that use Debian?

Smaller companies stand out among Debian users: companies with fewer than 50 employees are 35% of them, against 22% on the typical tech page. 2,881 of its companies have more than 5,000 employees.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| Under 50 employees | 35% | 22% |
| 50 to 999 | 46% | 38% |
| 1,000 to 5,000 | 12% | 17% |
| Over 5,000 | 6.3% | 23% |

## Where are Debian companies based?

France is 2.8 times as common among Debian companies as on the typical tech page, at 13%. The United States leads overall with 22%. Its companies are based in 179 countries and territories.

| Country | Companies | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| United States | 9,686 | 22% | 43% |
| France | 5,663 | 13% | 4.6% |
| Germany | 3,403 | 7.7% | 4.4% |
| Brazil | 2,524 | 5.7% | 2.8% |
| United Kingdom | 2,237 | 5.1% | 6.4% |
| Spain | 1,913 | 4.3% | 1.8% |

## Which teams work with Debian?

IT teams are by far the most common home for Debian, at 280 companies. Infrastructure teams are second, at 76 companies, and DevOps teams third, at 61.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| IT | 280 |
| Infrastructure | 76 |
| DevOps | 61 |
| R&D | 46 |
| Engineering | 38 |
| Operations | 27 |

## Which roles mention Debian most?

Debian shows up across many roles. The top one, IT Support, has 13% of the job posts. IT Support posts naming it numbered 145 from March to May 2026 and 87 from June to August.

| Role | Share | Oct 2025 to Aug 2026 | Mar to May 2026 | Jun to Aug 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| IT Support | 13% | 509 | 145 | 87 |
| Software Engineer | 13% | 508 | 155 | 99 |
| DevOps Engineer | 8.2% | 329 | 92 | 75 |
| Administrator | 7.9% | 319 | 93 | 66 |
| Systems Engineer | 7.1% | 288 | 72 | 82 |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 2.9% | 116 | 36 | 26 |

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

256 companies with 50 or more employees started naming Debian in job posts between April and August 2026. 26 of them have more than 5,000 employees. Another 3 were AI-native companies, which we list separately.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| AI native | [Autonomous Teaming](https://sumble.com/orgs/autonomous-teaming) | 3 |
| AI native | [gnani.ai](https://sumble.com/orgs/gnani-innovations) | 1 |
| AI native | [Docyrus](https://sumble.com/orgs/docyrus) | 1 |
| Commercial | [Centro Universitário FAMINAS BH](https://sumble.com/orgs/faminas-bh) | 9 |
| Commercial | [Innspark](https://sumble.com/orgs/innspark-solutions) | 7 |
| Commercial | [CodeValue](https://sumble.com/orgs/codevalue) | 5 |
| Commercial | [ilem Group](https://sumble.com/orgs/ilem-group) | 5 |
| Commercial | [ELCA Vietnam](https://sumble.com/orgs/elca-viet-nam) | 4 |
| Mid-market | [SonicWall](https://sumble.com/orgs/sonicwall) | 4 |
| Mid-market | [Milestone Systems](https://sumble.com/orgs/milestone-systems,-inc.) | 3 |
| Mid-market | [LR WORLD](https://sumble.com/orgs/lr-world) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [ATS Corporation](https://sumble.com/orgs/ats-automation-4) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement(SCHL)](https://sumble.com/orgs/canada-mortgage-and-housing-corporation-cmhc) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [Amdocs](https://sumble.com/orgs/amdocs) | 3 |
| Enterprise | [Bank of America](https://sumble.com/orgs/bank-of-america) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [MUFG](https://sumble.com/orgs/mufg) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [Publicis Sapient](https://sumble.com/orgs/publicis-sapient) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [GXO Logistics, Inc.](https://sumble.com/orgs/gxo-logistics) | 2 |

Companies that named Debian 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 Debian companies use?

60% of Debian companies also use Ubuntu, against 2.7% of similar companies. Proxmox comes second, 22 times as common as usual, at 20%.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Ubuntu | 3,122 | 60% | 2.7% | 22 times |
| Proxmox | 1,039 | 20% | 0.92% | 22 times |
| Centreon | 267 | 5.1% | 0.24% | 21 times |
| Ceph | 482 | 9.2% | 0.49% | 19 times |
| Red Hat KVM | 904 | 17% | 1.1% | 16 times |
| RedHat | 1,665 | 32% | 2.1% | 15 times |
| Red Hat OpenStack | 689 | 13% | 1% | 13 times |
| Graylog | 261 | 5% | 0.39% | 13 times |

Shares are out of the 5,217 companies whose job posts name Debian, not counting firms whose job posts name almost every technology.

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

Beyond general digital transformation, the most common project theme in Debian job posts is Data Infrastructure Migration (275 posts). Broad digital transformation work shows up in 1,610 of its job posts.

| Project theme | Job posts |
|---|---:|
| Digital Transformation | 1,610 |
| Data Infrastructure Migration | 275 |
| Cloud Migration | 182 |
| Cloud Cost Optimization | 122 |

## 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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