4,770 companies in our data use H.264, and 1,358 of them name it in job posts they wrote. Hiring for it has slowed, though 1,112 job posts still named it from October 2025 to August 2026. Software Engineer roles mention it most.
The companies with the most job posts naming H.264 are Qualcomm (192), Apple (190) and Amazon (96). Of the five companies in the table, Apple has the most employees who list it on their profiles: 251.
CompanyPostsPeopleRecent job post
QualcommScientific and Technical Services · first seen Aug 2022192215
"Translate video standard requirements (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, AV1, VVC, etc.) into efficient micro architectures and hardware algorithms, ensuring scalability, configurability, and compliance."video codec digital circuit design engineer, Jul 27, 2026
AppleScientific and Technical Services · first seen Jul 2022190251
"Knowledge of video encoding and transcoding standards including H.264, H.265, and RTMP for live and on demand delivery."IS&T Services Broadcast Engineer, Employee Experience & Productivity, Oct 23, 2026
AmazonRetail Trade · first seen Jul 20229673
"Proven track record in video decoder and encoder driver development for both legacy codecs (H.264, H.265, VP9, MPEG-2/4) and advanced codecs (AV1, VVC)"SDE II - Multimedia, Hardware Compute Group, Aug 20, 2026
EvertzManufacturing · first seen Oct 20228728
"Understanding of core compression technologies (H264, HEVC, JPEG-XS, JPEG-2K)"Technical Product Specialist – Media Transport, Sep 22, 2026
ByteDanceScientific and Technical Services · first seen Sep 20226816
"Experience with Video Codec (H.265/HEVC, H.266/VVC, AV1, VP9, or H.264/AVC) is a big plus."asic design engineer (video silicon ip)- multimedia lab, Oct 22, 2026
Hiring for H.264 has slowed. 0.50 in every 10,000 job posts named it from June to August 2026, against 0.62 from March to May. June 2026 was its lowest month since October 2025, at 0.47.
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Month
Job posts naming H.264
All job posts
Per 10,000
Oct 2025
74
1,413,673
0.52
Nov 2025
107
1,822,119
0.59
Dec 2025
66
1,236,103
0.53
Jan 2026
140
1,828,002
0.77
Feb 2026
109
1,856,647
0.59
Mar 2026
132
1,850,711
0.71
Apr 2026
98
1,728,886
0.57
May 2026
107
1,821,509
0.59
Jun 2026
90
1,909,496
0.47
Jul 2026
96
1,815,180
0.53
Aug 2026
93
1,835,698
0.51
How many companies named H.264 in a job post for the first time in recent months?
Job posts named H.264 for the first time at 47 companies from June to August 2026, against 58 from March to May. The 47 from June to August are 3.5% of all 1,358 companies whose job posts name it.
March to May 202658
June to August 202647
October 2025 to August 2026207
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 H.264?
Most of these companies come from employees' profiles: 72% have no job post naming H.264. 1,358 name it in their own job posts.
How we knowCompaniesShare
Job posts name H.264
1,35828%
Employees' profiles list H.264
3,41272%
4,770 companies. Each is counted once, under the strongest evidence we have for it.
What size are the companies that use H.264?
H.264 skews toward smaller firms. 27% of its users are companies with fewer than 50 employees, against 22% on the typical tech page. 780 of its companies have more than 5,000 employees.
Share of its companies
Typical tech page
ShareTypical
Under 50 employees
27%22%
50 to 999
40%38%
1,000 to 5,000
16%17%
Over 5,000
16%23%
Where are H.264 companies based?
The United States alone has 45% of H.264 companies; the rest are spread across 92 other countries and territories.
ShareTypical
United States
45%43%
United Kingdom
6.8%6.4%
India
5.8%6.9%
France
5.6%4.6%
Canada
3.6%3.6%
Germany
3.5%4.4%
Companies in 93 countries and territories. Shares are of companies with a known headquarters country.
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Country
Companies
Share
Typical tech page
United States
2,013
45%
43%
United Kingdom
305
6.8%
6.4%
India
262
5.8%
6.9%
France
251
5.6%
4.6%
Canada
164
3.6%
3.6%
Germany
159
3.5%
4.4%
Which teams work with H.264?
Engineering teams are the most common home for H.264, at 22 companies, followed by video engineering and R&D.
TeamCompanies
Engineering
22
Video engineering
17
R&D
13
Video
10
Media engineering
6
Software engineering
6
What else do H.264 companies use?
H.265, HEVC and RTSP show up far more often at H.264 companies than at companies of the same size. RTMP is 92 times as common as usual, at 22%.
Share of the 913 H.264 companies counted here whose job posts also name the tool
Typical for companies the same size
Which companies started naming H.264 in job posts recently?
From April to August 2026, 50 companies with 50 or more employees posted their first job naming H.264: 35 commercial, 5 mid-market and 10 enterprise. Among the new enterprise companies, Mastercard posted the most jobs naming it: 3.
Companies that named H.264 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.
Which roles mention H.264 most?
Software Engineer and Video Designer roles account for 34% of the job posts that name H.264. The top four roles cover 44% of these job posts.
RoleSharePosts
Software Engineer
24%262
Video Designer
10%112
Firmware Engineer
5.7%63
Embedded Engineer
4.5%50
Systems Engineer
2.4%27
Software Development Engineer in Test
2.2%24
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Role
Share
Oct 2025 to Aug 2026
Mar to May 2026
Jun to Aug 2026
Software Engineer
24%
262
72
64
Video Designer
10%
112
31
16
Firmware Engineer
5.7%
63
16
28
Embedded Engineer
4.5%
50
11
12
Systems Engineer
2.4%
27
12
6
Software Development Engineer in Test
2.2%
24
5
8
Which project themes come up in H.264 job posts?
After broad digital transformation work, teams hiring for H.264 most often mention Microservices Migration, in 60 job posts. Cloud Migration is next, in 25 job posts.
Project themeJob posts
Digital Transformation206
Microservices Migration60
Cloud Migration25
Cloud Cost Optimization10
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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