Tech Hiring Update — April 12, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 367 companies and 112,204 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,202	+259%
Apple	4,996	+108%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,857	+500%
Google	3,809	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,943	+450%

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	278	76%
AWS	252	69%
Performance Optimization	245	67%
SaaS	221	60%
Machine Learning	211	57%
Data Analytics	211	57%
Cloud Computing	206	56%
SQL	202	55%
CI/CD	182	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,857 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

5,909 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 959 are hybrid. The remaining 105,336 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,989
San Francisco, CA	3,794
New York City, NY	3,507
Remote (United States)	3,327
Seattle, WA	2,730
Santa Clara, CA	2,338
Austin, TX	2,106
Sunnyvale, CA	1,842

Compensation

Across 36,602 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $174k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	40,496	36%
operations	24,284	22%
sales	13,964	12%
services	4,093	4%
data engineering	3,879	3%
machine learning	3,625	3%
finance	2,998	3%
marketing	2,808	3%