Tech Hiring Update — April 7, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 369 companies and 117,781 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	17,825	+258%
Apple	5,028	+111%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,568	+500%
Google	3,515	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,877	+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	314	85%
API Development	283	77%
AWS	246	67%
Performance Optimization	240	65%
SaaS	217	59%
Machine Learning	211	57%
Data Analytics	211	57%
Cloud Computing	205	56%
SQL	200	54%
Backend Development	180	49%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,568 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...

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Remote Work

5,899 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 985 are hybrid. The remaining 110,897 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,044
San Francisco, CA	3,756
New York City, NY	3,506
Remote (United States)	3,353
Seattle, WA	2,714
Austin, TX	2,575
Santa Clara, CA	2,379
Sunnyvale, CA	1,795

Compensation

Across 36,521 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $173k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,844	36%
operations	26,810	23%
sales	13,998	12%
services	4,503	4%
data engineering	3,995	3%
machine learning	3,833	3%
finance	2,986	3%
marketing	2,894	2%