Best Applicant Tracking Systems in 2018

Last year, we wrote an article on the best applicant tracking systems for 2017. We received a lot of interest in the post given this data set hadn’t been explored before, and figured it was time for an update!

There are so many applicant tracking systems (ATS) out there. We hope the data presented here will help you get a sense for the overall market. While this is one part of the puzzle, it’s important to also connect with peers to see what they are using as many of these systems are focused on a given type of company or industry.

The Data Set

The data set comes from Datanyze, a sales and investing intelligence platform. Although most of the companies listed here are applicant tracking systems, some of the 198 listed do not focus on ATS as their core functionality. However, we’re going to use this as is list in order to preserve the integrity of the dataset.

Applicant Tracking Systems by Market Share

The following pie chart shows the top 20 ATS’s by market share as of March 2018. Note that market share here is not defined by revenue, but instead by the number of websites that use the particular ATS. Top companies by revenue would look drastically different as larger companies like Taleo charge a significantly higher price for their product.

Changes since 2017

This table puts the top 20 companies by market share as of 2017 and 2018 side by side.

	2017			2018
Ranking	Technology	Market Share	Technology		Market Share
1	Taleo	11.22%	Oracle Taleo		13.54%
2	Taleo Enterprise	6.80%	iCIMS		7.65%
3	iCIMS	5.42%	JazzHR		4.63%
4	Taleo Business	4.69%	NEOGOV Insight		4.31%
5	UltiPro	3.76%	Workable		4.14%
6	SilkRoad	3.65%	ClearCompany		3.50%
7	Jobs.net	3.16%	Workday Recruiting		3.30%
8	Jazz (Resumator)	2.98%	Jobvite		3.21%
9	Jobvite	2.96%	Greenhouse		3.06%
10	ClearCompany	2.42%	Applicant Pro		2.51%
11	Workable	2.39%	SAP SuccessFactors		2.17%
12	ZipRecruiter	1.96%	myStaffingPro		2.07%
13	Kenexa	1.84%	Lever		1.87%
14	Applicant Pro	1.73%	Tenstreet		1.77%
15	Greenhouse	1.73%	SilkRoad Activate		1.67%
16	Workday Recruit	1.54%	Zoho Recruit		1.61%
17	myStaffingPro	1.52%	Bullhorn		1.50%
18	SmartRecruiters	1.48%	TalentEd		1.46%
19	TalentEd	1.34%	Cornerstone Recruiting		1.38%
20	BambooHR	1.31%	SmartRecruiters		1.28%

Since 2017, Datanyze combined the different divisions of Taleo under one ATS, and Taleo still continues to dominate the market. iCIMS had the biggest gain in market share, up 2.23% since 2017. Workable and Workday both jump into the top 10 with 1.75% and 1.76% gains respectively. SilkRoad suffered the biggest dropback, sliding from 6 to 15 with a decrease of 1.98% in market share.

Fastest Growing Applicant Tracking Systems

One interesting way to slice this data is to see who’s growing the fastest. The faster the company grows, the more valuable the solution should be (assuming buyers are doing a good job in picking which system to use).

It’s surprising that we don’t see any applicant tracking systems that are growing faster than 100% (please note, these growth numbers are calculated by net new additional customers minus churn – hence “net” growth). While the ATS segment is very mature, there are several new entrants which are venture backed and bringing to market differentiated products. It seems that this combination of factors should lead to much higher growth rates, but we don’t see that in the data.

Applicant Tracking Systems That Are Keeping Their Customers

Different companies have different hiring processes and needs. It’s not uncommon at all for companies to switch their ATS every few years. However, we still think it’s interesting to see which systems are kept at the highest rates.

In the top 15, ClearCompany (ranked 7^th) is the first on this list that is also in the top 15 by market share. Although the first 6 have higher retention rates, their market share is significantly smaller (<1.5%) than ClearCompany. Following ClearCompany, JazzHR (10^th), Simplicity (12^th), Greenhouse (14^th), and Workable (15^th) round out the highest retention rates among the top 15 ATS by market share.

Issues with this data

There are non-ATS focused providers on the list. For instance, SilkRoad Activate does indeed provide applicant tracking; however, their focus and selling point is on-boarding after a hire to improve employee experience.
Some ATS providers are concentrated in certain areas. NeoGov that is ranked 4^th focuses on the public sector. Meanwhile companies like TenStreet is tailored for hiring drivers.
The numbers presented are an average of February and March 2018 only. A company couldn’t had a really bad (or great) February and March which would skew their growth and churn rates.
This information is collected mostly by scraping websites and using the code on their site to extrapolate which systems they use. This is an accurate, but incomplete method. What if a given ATS serves small companies that aren’t getting crawled, for instance.
Some newer providers (namely Google Hire) aren’t yet in this data set.

Regardless of the flaws, our hope is that these numbers can give you a better idea of what’s out there and save you some time in narrowing down and researching your options. Best of luck in your search!

The top 100 ranking from Datanyze is below:

Ranking		Technology		Domains		Market Share
	1		Oracle Taleo		15,097		13.54%
	2		iCIMS		8,529		7.65%
	3		JazzHR		5,164		4.63%
	4		NEOGOV Insight		4,807		4.31%
	5		Workable		4,616		4.14%
	6		ClearCompany Applicant Tracking System		3,905		3.50%
	7		Workday Recruiting		3,677		3.30%
	8		Jobvite		3,577		3.21%
	9		Greenhouse		3,415		3.06%
	10		Applicant Pro		2,796		2.51%
	11		SAP SuccessFactors		2,421		2.17%
	12		myStaffingPro		2,303		2.07%
	13		Lever		2,090		1.87%
	14		Tenstreet		1,972		1.77%
	15		SilkRoad Activate Recruiting		1,864		1.67%
	16		Zoho Recruit		1,792		1.61%
	17		Bullhorn		1,669		1.50%
	18		TalentEd		1,626		1.46%
	19		Cornerstone Recruiting		1,537		1.38%
	20		SmartRecruiters		1,431		1.28%
	21		Frontline Recruiting & Hiring		1,369		1.23%
	22		Symplicity CSM		1,325		1.19%
	23		ApplicantStack		1,289		1.16%
	24		CATS		1,177		1.06%
	25		Recruiterbox		1,173		1.05%
	26		ATS OnDemand		1,066		0.96%
	27		Newton Software		1,026		0.92%
	28		JobDiva		979		0.88%
	29		PCRecruiter		930		0.83%
	30		Lumesse Recruit		899		0.81%
	31		PeopleFluent Recruiting		881		0.79%
	32		Monster Talent Management		812		0.73%
	33		Breezy HR		761		0.68%
	35		JobAdder		724		0.65%
	34		Avature		729		0.65%
	36		ApplicantPool		717		0.64%
	37		Jobscore		684		0.61%
	39		OTYS		654		0.59%
	38		Haufe Umantis Applicant Management		660		0.59%
	40		LinkedIn Recruiter		529		0.47%
	41		Broadbean		486		0.44%
	42		iApplicants		480		0.43%
	43		Recruitee		449		0.40%
	44		Hireology		437		0.39%
	45		talentReef		433		0.39%
	46		Carerix		407		0.37%
	47		Hyrell		374		0.34%
	48		HireBridge		369		0.33%
	49		ACCESS ON LINE		353		0.32%
	50		SearchSoft Solutions		348		0.31%
	51		GetHired.com		336		0.30%
	52		ExactHire HireCentric		335		0.30%
	53		CareerPlug		321		0.29%
	54		aCloud Recruitment		319		0.29%
	55		TempWorks		301		0.27%
	56		Talentsoft Recruiting		297		0.27%
	57		AngelList Track		291		0.26%
	58		The Applicant Manager		288		0.26%
	59		MaxHire		286		0.26%
	60		Avionte		284		0.25%
	61		Jobtrain		283		0.25%
	62		Prevue APS Pro		270		0.24%
	63		Njoyn		268		0.24%
	64		softgarden		266		0.24%
	65		Neptune		247		0.22%
	66		Sendouts		246		0.22%
	67		WCN		229		0.21%
	68		SmartSearch		228		0.20%
	69		Crelate		222		0.20%
	70		CareerArc		221		0.20%
	71		Reclog		218		0.20%
	72		BrightMove		214		0.19%
	73		Hodes iQ		206		0.18%
	74		COMPAS		200		0.18%
	75		Top Echelon Big Biller		190		0.17%
	76		Emply		188		0.17%
	77		HiringThing		187		0.17%
	78		Cyber Recruiter		187		0.17%
	79		Kwantek		172		0.15%
	80		Job Suite		162		0.15%
	81		Vacancy Filler		161		0.14%
	82		Recop		160		0.14%
	83		AcquireTM		159		0.14%
	84		Recruiting Optimizer		157		0.14%
	85		Pereless Systems		155		0.14%
	86		iRecruit		155		0.14%
	87		HireTouch		154		0.14%
	88		ABD Ultra-Staff		152		0.14%
	89		Baitoru		152		0.14%
	90		SONAR		150		0.13%
	91		Ceipal TalentHire		149		0.13%
	92		HITO Manager		148		0.13%
	93		Vincere		143		0.13%
	94		PeopleFluent		140		0.13%
	95		AcquireTM		134		0.12%
	96		Talent Clue		134		0.12%
	97		SnapHire		132		0.12%
	98		HRMOS recruitment management		132		0.12%
	99		Fitzii		131		0.12%
	100		Jobs2Web		129		0.12%

Originally posted on NextWave Hire.

Comment by Joanne McDonagh on March 28, 2018 at 12:09pm: Good list. There has also been a huge rise in recruitment marketing and management platforms in the recent years. Providing HR professionals with a platform to help market their brand as well as manage their candidates in the back end. An example of what is provided with such a platform is available here www.rezoomoHR.com

Comment by Daniel Mccartney on June 18, 2018 at 3:36am: Great list of best applicant tracking system...these ATS provides great help to HR and recruiters to find candidates and manage all functions like manage interview schedule, organise candidates information and job vacancy and management.
your blog content really used whose find to best applicant tracking system. iSmartRecruit is also best ATS Complete support Multilingual Staffing.