Tech Hiring Update — April 6, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 362 companies and 101,489 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	17,662	+256%
Google	3,847	+500%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,665	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,883	+457%
Microsoft	2,325	+344%

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	307	85%
API Development	276	76%
AWS	242	67%
Performance Optimization	240	66%
SaaS	215	59%
Data Analytics	207	57%
Machine Learning	206	57%
Cloud Computing	201	56%
SQL	195	54%
Backend Development	180	50%

Company Spotlight: Google

3,847 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

5,865 positions (6%) are listed as remote. 1,000 are hybrid. The remaining 94,624 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,962
San Francisco, CA	3,799
New York City, NY	3,496
Remote (United States)	3,275
Seattle, WA	2,498
Santa Clara, CA	2,261
Singapore	1,724
San Jose, CA	1,688

Compensation

Across 36,127 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	36,332	36%
operations	22,494	22%
sales	13,359	13%
services	3,554	4%
machine learning	3,210	3%
data engineering	3,121	3%
product	2,804	3%
finance	2,790	3%