Tech Hiring Update — April 5, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 360 companies and 108,828 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	17,686	+256%
Apple	5,068	+114%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,891	+500%
Google	3,858	+500%
Microsoft	2,372	+351%

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	305	85%
API Development	275	76%
AWS	240	67%
Performance Optimization	239	66%
SaaS	214	59%
Data Analytics	208	58%
Machine Learning	207	57%
Cloud Computing	198	55%
SQL	191	53%
Backend Development	177	49%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,891 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

5,728 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 1,002 are hybrid. The remaining 102,098 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,800
San Francisco, CA	3,788
New York City, NY	3,441
Remote (United States)	3,178
Seattle, WA	2,705
Austin, TX	2,527
Santa Clara, CA	2,362
Sunnyvale, CA	1,863

Compensation

Across 35,754 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	39,163	36%
operations	25,429	23%
sales	13,169	12%
services	3,828	4%
machine learning	3,764	3%
data engineering	3,322	3%
product	2,864	3%
finance	2,784	3%