# Companies using MAXQDA

6,275 companies in our data use MAXQDA, and 790 of them name it in job posts they wrote. From October 2025 to August 2026, 448 job posts named it. It comes up most in Researcher job posts.

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

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

University of Kassel and University of Michigan have the most job posts naming MAXQDA, with 41 and 34. University of Kassel 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [University of Kassel](https://sumble.com/orgs/universitat-kassel) | 41 | 7 | "Knowledge of R, SMARTPLS, or MAXQDA" (Research Assistant (m/f/d), EG 13 TV-H, Institute of Management and Business Studies (IBWL) – Sustainable Marketing, Jan 12, 2026) |
| [University of Michigan](https://sumble.com/orgs/university-of-michigan) | 34 | 7 | "Applicants with knowledge of MaxQDA, Dedoose, Nvivo, or other qualitative research software preferred" (Research Area Specialist Sr/Intermediate (TERM LIMITED), Dec 16, 2025) |
| [ICF](https://sumble.com/orgs/icf) | 31 | 5 | "Support data analysis (e.g., code text using software such as NVivo or MaxQDA)." (Research Associate, Social Marketing, Aug 25, 2026) |
| [The Johns Hopkins University](https://sumble.com/orgs/johns-hopkins-university) | 31 | 1 | "Analyzing qualitative and quantitative data using a variety of standard techniques (e.g., regression analyses) and platforms (e.g., Stata, Maxqda)." (Sr. Research Project Coordinator II (Health, Behavior and Society), Aug 18, 2026) |
| [Emory University](https://sumble.com/orgs/emory-university) | 29 | 10 | "Analyze and visualize data using qualitative and quantitative tools (e.g., R, Python, MAXQDA)." (Post Doctoral Fellow in Data Center and Energy Infrastructure Buildout, Aug 18, 2026) |

## Is hiring for MAXQDA growing?

Job posts mentioning MAXQDA went from 0.17 to 0.25 in every 10,000 job posts, comparing March to May with June to August 2026. These are small numbers of job posts, so a few companies can move them.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Oct 2025 | 49 | 1,413,673 | 0.35 |
| Nov 2025 | 47 | 1,822,119 | 0.26 |
| Dec 2025 | 38 | 1,236,103 | 0.31 |
| Jan 2026 | 40 | 1,828,002 | 0.22 |
| Feb 2026 | 43 | 1,856,647 | 0.23 |
| Mar 2026 | 35 | 1,850,711 | 0.19 |
| Apr 2026 | 23 | 1,728,886 | 0.13 |
| May 2026 | 34 | 1,821,509 | 0.19 |
| Jun 2026 | 27 | 1,909,496 | 0.14 |
| Jul 2026 | 53 | 1,815,180 | 0.29 |
| Aug 2026 | 59 | 1,835,698 | 0.32 |

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

34 companies named MAXQDA in a job post for the first time from June to August 2026, against 27 from March to May. From October 2025 to August 2026, 110 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 | 27 |
| June to August 2026 | 34 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 110 |

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 MAXQDA?

790 companies name MAXQDA in their own job posts. The other 5,485 show up because employees list it on their profiles. 351 show up in both job posts and employees' profiles.

| How we know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name MAXQDA | 790 | 13% |
| Employees' profiles list MAXQDA | 5,485 | 87% |

## What size are the companies that use MAXQDA?

Companies with 50 to 999 employees are the largest group of MAXQDA users, at 43%. The second-largest group is companies with fewer than 50 employees, at 22%.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| Under 50 employees | 22% | 22% |
| 50 to 999 | 43% | 38% |
| 1,000 to 5,000 | 20% | 17% |
| Over 5,000 | 15% | 23% |

## Where are MAXQDA companies based?

The United States has the most MAXQDA companies (32%), but Germany stands out: 25% of them, against 4.4% on the typical tech page. Its companies are based in 119 countries and territories.

| Country | Companies | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| United States | 1,957 | 32% | 43% |
| Germany | 1,550 | 25% | 4.4% |
| United Kingdom | 287 | 4.7% | 6.4% |
| The Netherlands | 250 | 4.1% | 2% |
| Switzerland | 238 | 3.9% | 1.5% |
| Turkey | 188 | 3.1% | 0.75% |

## Which teams work with MAXQDA?

MAXQDA work is spread across teams. Research leads, at 9 companies.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| Research | 9 |
| Evaluation | 5 |
| Core | 3 |
| Data services | 3 |
| Education research | 3 |
| Forschungs | 3 |

## Which roles mention MAXQDA most?

MAXQDA is showing up in more Researcher job posts: 38 from June to August 2026, up from 17 from March to May. Research Assistant is second, at 10%.

| Role | Share | Oct 2025 to Aug 2026 | Mar to May 2026 | Jun to Aug 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Researcher | 35% | 155 | 17 | 38 |
| Research Assistant | 10% | 45 | 10 | 8 |
| Teaching Assistant | 4.5% | 20 | 3 | 2 |
| Analyst | 3.3% | 15 | 7 | 3 |
| Professor | 3.1% | 14 | 2 | 2 |
| Engineering & R&D | 2.2% | 10 | 3 | 3 |

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

43 companies with 50 or more employees picked up MAXQDA in their job posts from April to August 2026. Northrop Grumman leads the new enterprise companies, with 3 job posts from April to August.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| Commercial | [Fachhochschule Eberswalde](https://sumble.com/orgs/hochschule-fur-nachhaltige-entwicklung-eberswalde) | 3 |
| Commercial | [Universität Klagenfurt](https://sumble.com/orgs/alpen-adria-universitat-klagenfurt) | 2 |
| Commercial | [Alpha Omega](https://sumble.com/orgs/alpha-omega-com) | 2 |
| Commercial | [Polizei Berlin](https://sumble.com/orgs/polizei-berlin) | 2 |
| Commercial | [Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL](https://sumble.com/orgs/eidgenossische-forschungsanstalt-fur-wald-schnee-und-landschaft-wsl) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [Université de Bordeaux](https://sumble.com/orgs/universite-de-bordeaux) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham](https://sumble.com/orgs/amrita-university) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [A Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Últimos Dias](https://sumble.com/orgs/igrejadejesuscristo) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW](https://sumble.com/orgs/fachhochschule-nordwestschweiz-fhnw) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [American Institutes for Research](https://sumble.com/orgs/american-institutes-for-research) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Northrop Grumman](https://sumble.com/orgs/northrop-grumman) | 3 |
| Enterprise | [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints](https://sumble.com/orgs/church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [State of Florida](https://sumble.com/orgs/state-of-florida) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Parexel](https://sumble.com/orgs/parexel) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [UCL](https://sumble.com/orgs/ucl) | 1 |

Companies that named MAXQDA 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 MAXQDA companies use?

MAXQDA companies are 46 times as likely as similar companies to use Atlas.ti: 34% of them, against 0.75%. Among the tools listed here, NVivo is the most widely used, at 55% of MAXQDA companies.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Atlas.ti | 219 | 34% | 0.75% | 46 times |
| Dedoose | 102 | 16% | 0.43% | 37 times |
| NVivo | 351 | 55% | 1.7% | 32 times |
| Mplus | 103 | 16% | 0.51% | 32 times |
| FreeSurfer | 38 | 6% | 0.27% | 22 times |
| Shibboleth | 35 | 5.5% | 0.34% | 16 times |
| GAMS | 39 | 6.1% | 0.38% | 16 times |
| H5P | 42 | 6.6% | 0.42% | 16 times |

Shares are out of the 635 companies whose job posts name MAXQDA, not counting firms whose job posts name almost every technology.

## 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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