Tech Hiring Update — April 10, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 366 companies and 111,268 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,278	+257%
Apple	4,975	+107%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,908	+500%
Google	3,830	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,955	+458%

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	313	86%
API Development	279	76%
AWS	253	69%
Performance Optimization	243	66%
SaaS	217	59%
Machine Learning	209	57%
Data Analytics	208	57%
Cloud Computing	204	56%
SQL	200	55%
CI/CD	184	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,908 open positions. Top skills: Disaster Recovery, Agile, 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

5,926 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 963 are hybrid. The remaining 104,379 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,942
San Francisco, CA	3,780
New York City, NY	3,528
Remote (United States)	3,356
Seattle, WA	2,717
Santa Clara, CA	2,334
Austin, TX	2,276
Sunnyvale, CA	1,850

Compensation

Across 36,150 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $174k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	40,033	36%
operations	24,241	22%
sales	13,892	12%
services	4,044	4%
data engineering	3,868	3%
machine learning	3,513	3%
finance	2,988	3%
marketing	2,811	3%