Tech Hiring Update — April 4, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 348 companies and 99,765 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	17,720	+256%
Apple	5,068	+113%
Google	3,858	+500%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,707	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,899	+454%

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	294	84%
API Development	266	76%
AWS	231	66%
Performance Optimization	226	65%
SaaS	209	60%
Data Analytics	200	57%
Machine Learning	196	56%
Cloud Computing	189	54%
SQL	189	54%
Backend Development	171	49%

Company Spotlight: Google

3,858 open positions. Top skills: GCP, System Design, Distributed Systems. Hiring +500%

Google is hiring aggressively across 3400 open roles, with engineering representing 1886 positions (55% of total). Most striking is the 500% surge in hiring over the past two months, signaling rapid scaling in cloud and AI infrastructure. The skill distribution tells the story: GCP (42%), System ...

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Remote Work

5,553 positions (6%) are listed as remote. 1,005 are hybrid. The remaining 93,207 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,516
San Francisco, CA	3,796
New York City, NY	3,489
Remote (United States)	3,094
Seattle, WA	2,659
Austin, TX	1,838
Sunnyvale, CA	1,819
Santa Clara, CA	1,794

Compensation

Across 34,370 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	35,944	36%
operations	21,747	22%
sales	12,775	13%
machine learning	3,590	4%
data engineering	3,221	3%
services	3,221	3%
product	2,742	3%
marketing	2,712	3%