Tech Hiring Update — April 9, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 367 companies and 114,388 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	17,978	+256%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,962	+500%
Google	3,788	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,944	+451%
Microsoft	2,281	+301%

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	312	85%
API Development	276	75%
AWS	248	68%
Performance Optimization	245	67%
SaaS	218	59%
Machine Learning	213	58%
Cloud Computing	207	56%
Data Analytics	206	56%
SQL	197	54%
CI/CD	184	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,962 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

5,904 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 969 are hybrid. The remaining 107,515 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,959
San Francisco, CA	3,793
New York City, NY	3,531
Remote (United States)	3,327
Seattle, WA	2,537
Austin, TX	2,233
Santa Clara, CA	2,191
Singapore	1,812

Compensation

Across 36,955 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $174k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	39,900	35%
operations	26,374	23%
sales	14,046	12%
services	4,510	4%
data engineering	3,785	3%
machine learning	3,361	3%
finance	3,027	3%
marketing	2,846	2%