Tech Hiring Update — April 8, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 368 companies and 118,514 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	17,864	+257%
Apple	5,044	+110%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,777	+500%
Google	3,759	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,920	+453%

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	85%
API Development	281	76%
Performance Optimization	246	67%
AWS	244	66%
SaaS	215	58%
Machine Learning	210	57%
Data Analytics	210	57%
Cloud Computing	203	55%
SQL	197	54%
Backend Development	182	49%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,777 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

5,908 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 969 are hybrid. The remaining 111,637 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,056
San Francisco, CA	3,777
New York City, NY	3,519
Remote (United States)	3,327
Seattle, WA	2,703
Austin, TX	2,586
Santa Clara, CA	2,307
Sunnyvale, CA	1,818

Compensation

Across 36,636 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $174k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	42,096	36%
operations	26,937	23%
sales	14,161	12%
services	4,522	4%
data engineering	3,965	3%
machine learning	3,845	3%
finance	3,007	3%
marketing	2,905	2%