# Companies using NFC

We found 12,322 companies that use NFC. 2,163 of them name it in their own job posts, and the rest through employees' public profiles. Hiring for it has slowed, though 2,017 job posts still named it from October 2025 to August 2026. It comes up most in Mobile Developer job posts.

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

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

Apple and NXP Semiconductors have the most job posts naming NFC, with 1,022 and 192. HID is the newest of the five companies in the table, with its first job post naming it in December 2023.

| Company | Job posts | People | Recent job post |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [Apple](https://sumble.com/orgs/apple) | 1,022 | 177 | "The candidate needs to have strong RF test/certification experience in BT/WLAN/NFC/UWB/WPT/GSM/UMTS/ LTE/5G/MSS.","responsibilities":"Manage/engage external…" (Regional Regulatory Compliance Engineer, Oct 2, 2026) |
| [NXP Semiconductors](https://sumble.com/orgs/nxp-semiconductors) | 192 | 287 | "Maintain and extend NFC/UWB system test environment" (Junior NFC/UWB System Validation Engineer (m/f/d), Oct 10, 2026) |
| [HID](https://sumble.com/orgs/hid-global) | 171 | 65 | "Our contactless identification and sensing (RFID, NFC, and BLE) components and solution enabling technologies address the dynamic requirements across multiple…" (Product Owner , Oct 27, 2026) |
| [ASSA ABLOY Group](https://sumble.com/orgs/assa-abloy-group) | 141 | 8 | "Lead the deployment of mobile credential solutions leveraging NFC& BLE technologies and ensure seamless integration with native applications and wallet platforms such as…" (Manager - Solutions, Products, Integration & Business Support - IMEAT, Jun 2, 2026) |
| [Abbott](https://sumble.com/orgs/abbott) | 131 | 4 | "Support development, testing, and troubleshooting of sensor communication systems, including low-power wireless, NFC, RFID, or related telemetry technologies." (mems sensor development engineer, Sep 12, 2026) |

## Is hiring for NFC growing?

A smaller share of job posts mentioned NFC from June to August 2026 than from March to May: 0.97 in every 10,000 job posts, down from 1.2. August 2026 was its lowest month since October 2025, at 0.86.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Oct 2025 | 144 | 1,413,673 | 1.0 |
| Nov 2025 | 193 | 1,822,119 | 1.1 |
| Dec 2025 | 119 | 1,236,103 | 0.96 |
| Jan 2026 | 208 | 1,828,002 | 1.1 |
| Feb 2026 | 190 | 1,856,647 | 1.0 |
| Mar 2026 | 220 | 1,850,711 | 1.2 |
| Apr 2026 | 201 | 1,728,886 | 1.2 |
| May 2026 | 202 | 1,821,509 | 1.1 |
| Jun 2026 | 195 | 1,909,496 | 1.0 |
| Jul 2026 | 188 | 1,815,180 | 1.0 |
| Aug 2026 | 157 | 1,835,698 | 0.86 |

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

Job posts named NFC for the first time at 96 companies from June to August 2026, against 133 from March to May. The 96 from June to August are 4.4% of all 2,163 companies whose job posts name it.

| Period | Companies naming it in a job post for the first time |
|---|---:|
| March to May 2026 | 133 |
| June to August 2026 | 96 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 380 |

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 NFC?

2,163 companies name NFC in job posts they wrote; employees' profiles add 10,159 more. 561 show up in both job posts and employees' profiles.

| How we know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name NFC | 2,163 | 18% |
| Employees' profiles list NFC | 10,159 | 82% |

## What size are the companies that use NFC?

Smaller companies stand out among NFC users: companies with fewer than 50 employees are 33% of them, against 22% on the typical tech page. 1,550 of its companies have more than 5,000 employees.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| Under 50 employees | 33% | 22% |
| 50 to 999 | 39% | 38% |
| 1,000 to 5,000 | 15% | 17% |
| Over 5,000 | 13% | 23% |

## Where are NFC companies based?

NFC has an unusually large following in France: 8.6% of its companies, against 4.6% on the typical tech page. Its companies are based in 144 countries and territories.

| Country | Companies | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| United States | 3,090 | 26% | 43% |
| France | 1,014 | 8.6% | 4.6% |
| United Kingdom | 840 | 7.1% | 6.4% |
| Germany | 657 | 5.6% | 4.4% |
| India | 597 | 5.1% | 6.9% |
| Spain | 365 | 3.1% | 1.8% |

## Which teams work with NFC?

Job posts most often place NFC with engineering, R&D and product development teams.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| Engineering | 33 |
| R&D | 26 |
| Product development | 14 |
| Hardware engineering | 12 |
| Hardware | 10 |
| Product | 10 |

## Which roles mention NFC most?

NFC shows up across many roles. The top one, Mobile Developer, has 12% of the job posts. Software Engineer is second, at 7.9%.

| Role | Share | Oct 2025 to Aug 2026 | Mar to May 2026 | Jun to Aug 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Mobile Developer | 12% | 235 | 68 | 67 |
| Software Engineer | 7.9% | 159 | 57 | 43 |
| Embedded Engineer | 5.7% | 115 | 31 | 29 |
| Software Development Engineer in Test | 5.5% | 110 | 37 | 32 |
| Hardware Engineer | 5.4% | 108 | 21 | 29 |
| Electrical Engineer | 4.3% | 86 | 29 | 22 |

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

105 companies with 50 or more employees started naming NFC in job posts between April and August 2026. 24 of them have more than 5,000 employees. Neosoft leads the new mid-market companies, with 4 job posts from April to August.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| Commercial | [Knightscope](https://sumble.com/orgs/knightscope) | 4 |
| Commercial | [INFICON](https://sumble.com/orgs/inficon) | 3 |
| Commercial | [Aquablu](https://sumble.com/orgs/aquablu) | 3 |
| Commercial | [NeST Digital](https://sumble.com/orgs/nest-digital) | 2 |
| Commercial | [Voi Technology](https://sumble.com/orgs/voi-technology-ab) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [Neosoft](https://sumble.com/orgs/neo-soft) | 4 |
| Mid-market | [PDI Technologies](https://sumble.com/orgs/pdi-software) | 3 |
| Mid-market | [WIKA Group](https://sumble.com/orgs/wika-sensor-technology) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [Ascend Group](https://sumble.com/orgs/ascend-group) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [Nedap](https://sumble.com/orgs/nedap) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [MediaTek](https://sumble.com/orgs/mediatek-india-technology) | 3 |
| Enterprise | [Caterpillar Inc.](https://sumble.com/orgs/caterpillar) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [BSH Home Appliances Group](https://sumble.com/orgs/bsh-home-appliances) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [Instacart](https://sumble.com/orgs/instacart) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [Louis Dreyfus Company](https://sumble.com/orgs/louis-dreyfus) | 2 |

Companies that named NFC 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 NFC companies use?

UWB and BLE are the tools most closely tied to NFC. Bluetooth comes third, 33 times as common as usual, at 41%.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| UWB | 132 | 8.8% | 0.13% | 65 times |
| BLE | 507 | 34% | 0.77% | 44 times |
| Bluetooth | 610 | 41% | 1.2% | 33 times |
| MIPI | 76 | 5% | 0.16% | 31 times |
| Zigbee | 174 | 12% | 0.38% | 31 times |
| FreeRTOS | 225 | 15% | 0.63% | 24 times |
| Buildroot | 83 | 5.5% | 0.24% | 23 times |
| UART | 410 | 27% | 1.4% | 20 times |

Shares are out of the 1,505 companies whose job posts name NFC, not counting firms whose job posts name almost every technology.

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

205 job posts naming NFC describe broad digital transformation, and 10 describe Microservices Migration work. Generative AI is next, in 5 job posts.

| Project theme | Job posts |
|---|---:|
| Digital Transformation | 205 |
| Microservices Migration | 10 |
| Generative AI | 5 |
| Frontend Migration | 3 |

- "The goal of the internship will be to apply generative artificial intelligence to all of our NFC/UWB projects" (NXP Semiconductors, engineer internship: development of an AI assistant for the production of embedded FW NFC and UWB, Nov 22, 2023)

## 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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