Tech Hiring Update — April 2, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 363 companies and 111,684 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	17,626	+256%
Apple	5,009	+115%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,773	+500%
Google	3,681	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,915	+449%

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	276	76%
AWS	239	66%
Performance Optimization	238	66%
SaaS	218	60%
Data Analytics	207	57%
Machine Learning	204	56%
SQL	198	55%
Cloud Computing	196	54%
CI/CD	180	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,773 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

5,969 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 996 are hybrid. The remaining 104,719 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,139
San Francisco, CA	3,746
New York City, NY	3,416
Remote (United States)	3,345
Seattle, WA	2,677
Austin, TX	2,513
Santa Clara, CA	2,365
Sunnyvale, CA	1,833

Compensation

Across 35,945 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	39,798	36%
operations	26,104	23%
sales	13,694	12%
services	4,001	4%
machine learning	3,765	3%
data engineering	3,342	3%
product	2,908	3%
finance	2,816	3%