# Companies using H.264

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.

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

## Which companies name H.264 in the most job posts?

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.

| Company | Job posts | People | Recent job post |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [Qualcomm](https://sumble.com/orgs/qualcomm) | 192 | 215 | "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) |
| [Apple](https://sumble.com/orgs/apple) | 190 | 251 | "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) |
| [Amazon](https://sumble.com/orgs/amazon) | 96 | 73 | "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) |
| [Evertz](https://sumble.com/orgs/evertz-microsystems) | 87 | 28 | "Understanding of core compression technologies (H264, HEVC, JPEG-XS, JPEG-2K)" (Technical Product Specialist – Media Transport, Sep 22, 2026) |
| [ByteDance](https://sumble.com/orgs/bytedance) | 68 | 16 | "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) |

## Is hiring for H.264 growing?

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.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| 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.

| Period | Companies naming it in a job post for the first time |
|---|---:|
| March to May 2026 | 58 |
| June to August 2026 | 47 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 207 |

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 know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name H.264 | 1,358 | 28% |
| Employees' profiles list H.264 | 3,412 | 72% |

## 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.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| 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.

| 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.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| Engineering | 22 |
| Video engineering | 17 |
| R&D | 13 |
| Video | 10 |
| Media engineering | 6 |
| Software engineering | 6 |

## 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.

| 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 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.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| Commercial | [Publicis Global Delivery Mauritius](https://sumble.com/orgs/prodigious) | 3 |
| Commercial | [Syntronic - A Global Design House](https://sumble.com/orgs/syntronic) | 3 |
| Commercial | [Scalo](https://sumble.com/orgs/scalo) | 2 |
| Commercial | [Knightscope](https://sumble.com/orgs/knightscope) | 2 |
| Commercial | [Hidonix Industries](https://sumble.com/orgs/hidonix) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [ARRISE](https://sumble.com/orgs/arrise-powering-pragmatic-play) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [Shared Health-Soins Communs](https://sumble.com/orgs/shared-health) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [Nortal](https://sumble.com/orgs/nortal) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [CBTW](https://sumble.com/orgs/collaboration-betters-the-world) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [Scicom MSC Berhad](https://sumble.com/orgs/scicom-msc-berhad) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Mastercard](https://sumble.com/orgs/mastercard) | 3 |
| Enterprise | [LG Electronics](https://sumble.com/orgs/lg-electronics) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Mount Sinai Health System](https://sumble.com/orgs/mount-sinai-health-system) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Virtusa](https://sumble.com/orgs/virtusa) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [FPT Software](https://sumble.com/orgs/fpt-software) | 1 |

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.

## 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%.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| H.265 | 443 | 49% | 0.16% | 296 times |
| HEVC | 252 | 28% | 0.15% | 180 times |
| RTSP | 213 | 23% | 0.21% | 110 times |
| RTMP | 197 | 22% | 0.23% | 92 times |
| Android TV | 55 | 6% | 0.11% | 55 times |
| WebRTC | 278 | 30% | 0.69% | 44 times |
| MIPI | 73 | 8% | 0.18% | 43 times |
| Buildroot | 85 | 9.3% | 0.27% | 35 times |

Shares are out of the 913 companies whose job posts name H.264, not counting firms whose job posts name almost every technology.

## 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 theme | Job posts |
|---|---:|
| Digital Transformation | 206 |
| Microservices Migration | 60 |
| Cloud Migration | 25 |
| Cloud Cost Optimization | 10 |

## 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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A company counts when its own job posts or its employees' public profiles name the technology. Hiring is that technology's share of all job posts collected each month. Quotes are copied word for word from the companies' job posts.

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