Tech Hiring Update — April 1, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 363 companies and 106,499 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	17,545	+255%
Apple	5,018	+115%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,700	+500%
Google	3,572	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,898	+455%

Most In-Demand Skills

Skills by company adoption rate — the percentage of tracked companies that list each skill in their job postings.

Skill	Companies	Adoption
Python	313	86%
API Development	281	77%
AWS	245	67%
Performance Optimization	234	64%
SaaS	218	60%
Data Analytics	208	57%
Machine Learning	205	56%
Cloud Computing	198	55%
SQL	198	55%
CI/CD	184	51%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,700 open positions. Top skills: Disaster Recovery, Agile, Python. Hiring +500%

Raytheon is on a major hiring surge, with open positions up 500% over the past two months. The 3,413 total roles lean heavily toward operations (40%) and software engineering (34%), with engineering representing 1,287 jobs overall. What stands out is the seniority distribution: mid-level roles do...

View Raytheon (RTX) hiring profile →

Remote Work

5,961 positions (6%) are listed as remote. 991 are hybrid. The remaining 99,547 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,119
San Francisco, CA	3,772
New York City, NY	3,492
Remote (United States)	3,361
Seattle, WA	2,639
Santa Clara, CA	2,370
Austin, TX	2,089
Sunnyvale, CA	1,806

Compensation

Across 36,077 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	38,881	37%
operations	23,233	22%
sales	13,615	13%
machine learning	3,686	3%
services	3,636	3%
data engineering	3,352	3%
product	2,872	3%
finance	2,827	3%