Tech Hiring Update — April 3, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 363 companies and 112,248 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	17,700	+257%
Apple	5,048	+113%
Raytheon (RTX)	4,007	+500%
Google	3,852	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,925	+451%

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	311	86%
API Development	276	76%
Performance Optimization	240	66%
AWS	237	65%
SaaS	218	60%
Data Analytics	210	58%
Machine Learning	208	57%
Cloud Computing	202	56%
SQL	197	54%
CI/CD	181	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

4,007 open positions. Top skills: Agile, Disaster Recovery, 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

5,887 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 999 are hybrid. The remaining 105,362 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,125
San Francisco, CA	3,818
New York City, NY	3,486
Remote (United States)	3,306
Seattle, WA	2,694
Austin, TX	2,556
Santa Clara, CA	2,291
Sunnyvale, CA	1,868

Compensation

Across 36,215 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $174k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	40,000	36%
operations	26,129	23%
sales	13,774	12%
services	3,993	4%
machine learning	3,801	3%
data engineering	3,394	3%
product	2,931	3%
finance	2,848	3%