ATS market share statistics 2026
Which applicant tracking systems large employers actually use — every number below computed from 704 employers verified against their live careers portals, and free to cite.
Which ATS is most used in 2026?
Workday is the most-used applicant tracking system in 2026, at 37.9% of the 704 large employers verified against their live careers portals in ResumeAI's State of ATS 2026 audit (267 of 704). Greenhouse follows at 12.5% and SAP SuccessFactors at 9.7%; the top three cover 60.1%. The market is fragmented: 36 distinct systems appear across the verified set, and 30 employers — including Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft — run proprietary internal ATSes.
Source: ResumeAI — 2026-07-16
Further reading: ResumeAI State of ATS 2026 (source dataset), JSON API for the dataset
Cite as: ResumeAI — withresumeai.com
The numbers, ready to quote
Workday runs hiring at 37.9% of the 704 large employers verified against their live careers portals in June 2026 (267 of 704) — the most-used ATS, but far from a majority.
The top three ATS vendors — Workday, Greenhouse, and SAP SuccessFactors — cover 60.1% of verified large employers (423 of 704). The other ~40% is a long tail no "triopoly" claim accounts for.
Greenhouse is the ATS at 12.5% of verified large employers (88 of 704), concentrated in venture-backed tech.
SAP SuccessFactors runs hiring at 9.7% of verified large employers (68 of 704) — an enterprise vendor routinely missing from ATS market-share claims.
Oracle Cloud HCM is the ATS at 7.0% of verified large employers (49 of 704).
iCIMS is the ATS at 5.5% of verified large employers (39 of 704).
Avature is the ATS at 3.7% of verified large employers (26 of 704).
Eightfold is the ATS at 3.4% of verified large employers (24 of 704).
36 distinct ATS platforms appear across the 704 verified employers — the market is far more fragmented than the two- or three-vendor story usually told.
30 verified large employers use no third-party ATS at all — Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft all run proprietary internal systems.
The State of ATS 2026 dataset covers 738 large employers; 704 (95%) were verified by inspecting the apply-URL host of their live careers portal in June 2026.
Get the underlying data
The full dataset is open (MIT license) — use it, republish it, build on it. Attribution appreciated, not required.
- Full report + methodology
- JSON API — free, no key (/api/v1/ats)
- CSV download
- GitHub — Kayvan-Zahiri/state-of-ats-2026 ↗
- npm — @withresumeai/ats-data ↗
- Kaggle dataset ↗
- Hugging Face dataset ↗
Cite as: ResumeAI, "State of ATS 2026," portal-verified June 2026 — withresumeai.com/reports/state-of-ats-2026. For broader ATS adoption and resume statistics, see ATS statistics 2026.