2,396 companies use Vulkan, based on their job posts and their employees' public profiles. Its share of job posts is shrinking, though 2,218 job posts still named it from October 2025 to August 2026. Software Engineer is the role that names it most often.
Which companies name Vulkan in the most job posts?
Qualcomm, NVIDIA and Apple are among the companies with the most job posts naming Vulkan. Of the five companies in the table, AMD has the most employees who list it on their profiles: 86.
CompanyPostsPeopleRecent job post
QualcommScientific and Technical Services · first seen Aug 202271172
"Experience with Vulkan, OpenGL, DX12, or CUDA"System Performance Engineer, Senior, Nov 7, 2026
NVIDIAScientific and Technical Services · first seen Aug 202260366
"Drive execution and production delivery of Vulkan, OpenGL, and CUDA-based graphics software, from GPU and SoC enablement through integration, optimization…"Senior Director, Graphics Systems Software, Nov 7, 2026
AppleScientific and Technical Services · first seen Aug 202253632
"Experience building or extending ML runtimes, inference engines, or accelerator driver stacks (e.g., TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, XLA, Metal, Vulkan compute, or similar)"Machine Learning System Software Engineer (m/f/d), Oct 22, 2026
AMDManufacturing · first seen Jul 202244686
"Familiarity with graphics and compute APIs such as Direct3D, Vulkan, CUDA, or OpenCL."Senior Graphics Machine Learning Engineer, Oct 23, 2026
LuxoftProfessional Services · first seen Mar 20244134
"3D graphics and geometry processing (OpenGL, Vulkan, VTK, CGAL or similar)"hands-on development manager (c++), Nov 4, 2026
Job posts mentioning Vulkan went from 1.2 to 0.95 in every 10,000 job posts, comparing March to May with June to August 2026. June 2026 was its lowest month since October 2025, at 0.84.
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Month
Job posts naming Vulkan
All job posts
Per 10,000
Oct 2025
164
1,413,673
1.2
Nov 2025
254
1,822,119
1.4
Dec 2025
120
1,236,103
0.97
Jan 2026
252
1,828,002
1.4
Feb 2026
271
1,856,647
1.5
Mar 2026
225
1,850,711
1.2
Apr 2026
221
1,728,886
1.3
May 2026
181
1,821,509
0.99
Jun 2026
160
1,909,496
0.84
Jul 2026
186
1,815,180
1.0
Aug 2026
184
1,835,698
1.0
How many companies named Vulkan in a job post for the first time in recent months?
From June to August 2026, 58 companies posted their first job naming Vulkan; 59 did from March to May. The 58 from June to August are 4.2% of all 1,369 companies whose job posts name it.
March to May 202659
June to August 202658
October 2025 to August 2026215
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 Vulkan?
The evidence for Vulkan is close to even: 57% of these companies name it in job posts, and 43% come from employees' profiles. 284 show up in both job posts and employees' profiles.
How we knowCompaniesShare
Job posts name Vulkan
1,36957%
Employees' profiles list Vulkan
1,02743%
2,396 companies. Each is counted once, under the strongest evidence we have for it.
What size are the companies that use Vulkan?
Companies with fewer than 50 employees are 1.3 times as common among Vulkan users as on the typical tech page. 365 of its companies have more than 5,000 employees.
Share of its companies
Typical tech page
ShareTypical
Under 50 employees
29%22%
50 to 999
43%38%
1,000 to 5,000
13%17%
Over 5,000
15%23%
Where are Vulkan companies based?
The United States has the most Vulkan companies (37%), but Germany stands out: 6.8% of them, against 4.4% on the typical tech page. The United Kingdom is second, at 7.1%.
ShareTypical
United States
37%43%
United Kingdom
7.1%6.4%
Germany
6.8%4.4%
France
5.6%4.6%
India
5.1%6.9%
Canada
4.1%3.6%
Companies in 75 countries and territories. Shares are of companies with a known headquarters country.
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Country
Companies
Share
Typical tech page
United States
824
37%
43%
United Kingdom
159
7.1%
6.4%
Germany
152
6.8%
4.4%
France
125
5.6%
4.6%
India
115
5.1%
6.9%
Canada
93
4.1%
3.6%
Which teams work with Vulkan?
Vulkan turns up most in job posts for graphics, engineering and rendering teams. R&D teams come fourth, at 17 companies.
TeamCompanies
Graphics
39
Engineering
20
Rendering
18
R&D
17
Software
15
Core technology
13
What else do Vulkan companies use?
Compared with companies of the same size, Vulkan companies stand out for using DirectX and OpenGL ES. OpenGL comes third, 147 times as common as usual, at 71%.
Share of the 967 Vulkan companies counted here whose job posts also name the tool
Typical for companies the same size
Which companies started naming Vulkan in job posts recently?
From April to August 2026, 51 companies with 50 or more employees posted their first job naming Vulkan: 35 commercial, 10 mid-market and 6 enterprise. Another 5 were AI-native companies, which we list separately.
Companies that named Vulkan 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 Vulkan most?
Software Engineer and Hardware Engineer roles account for 43% of the job posts that name Vulkan. The top four roles cover 53% of these job posts.
RoleSharePosts
Software Engineer
37%810
Hardware Engineer
6.5%144
CGI Designer
6.4%143
AI Engineer
3.4%75
3D Designer
3.1%69
Software Development Engineer in Test
2.6%57
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Role
Share
Oct 2025 to Aug 2026
Mar to May 2026
Jun to Aug 2026
Software Engineer
37%
810
211
188
Hardware Engineer
6.5%
144
31
30
CGI Designer
6.4%
143
38
36
AI Engineer
3.4%
75
13
16
3D Designer
3.1%
69
19
15
Software Development Engineer in Test
2.6%
57
19
23
Which project themes come up in Vulkan job posts?
Beyond general digital transformation, the most common project theme in Vulkan job posts is Generative AI (32 posts). Frontend Migration is next, in 6 job posts.
Project themeJob posts
Digital Transformation223
Generative AI32
Frontend Migration6
"Profile and optimize local inference (llama.cpp-vulkan and vLLM) for latency, throughput, and memory on edge hardware"
"Help Android migrate the ecosystem from older GPU APIs (GLES) to newer ones (Vulkan, WebGPU)"
Google, Engineering Manager, Android Machine Learning and Graphics, Jan 3, 2024
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