Tech Hiring Update — April 11, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 350 companies and 97,765 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,276	+260%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,887	+500%
YouTube	3,811	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,947	+452%
AMD	1,661	+202%

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	296	85%
API Development	264	75%
AWS	238	68%
Performance Optimization	231	66%
SaaS	213	61%
Data Analytics	200	57%
Cloud Computing	195	56%
Machine Learning	195	56%
SQL	195	56%
Backend Development	173	49%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,887 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

5,594 positions (6%) are listed as remote. 962 are hybrid. The remaining 91,209 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	4,929
San Francisco, CA	3,767
New York City, NY	3,479
Remote (United States)	3,115
Seattle, WA	2,497
Singapore	1,708
London, United Kingdom	1,700
Santa Clara, CA	1,696

Compensation

Across 33,881 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	33,948	35%
operations	21,493	22%
sales	12,624	13%
services	3,537	4%
data engineering	3,468	4%
machine learning	2,855	3%
finance	2,742	3%
marketing	2,625	3%