Tech Hiring Update — April 13, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 368 companies and 117,642 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,195	+259%
Apple	5,006	+107%
Google	3,820	+500%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,715	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,947	+454%

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	85%
API Development	278	76%
AWS	252	68%
Performance Optimization	245	67%
SaaS	220	60%
Machine Learning	212	58%
Data Analytics	212	58%
Cloud Computing	204	55%
SQL	199	54%
CI/CD	182	49%

Company Spotlight: Google

3,820 open positions. Top skills: GCP, System Design, Distributed Systems. Hiring +500%

Google is hiring aggressively across 3400 open roles, with engineering representing 1886 positions (55% of total). Most striking is the 500% surge in hiring over the past two months, signaling rapid scaling in cloud and AI infrastructure. The skill distribution tells the story: GCP (42%), System ...

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Remote Work

5,906 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 959 are hybrid. The remaining 110,777 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,999
San Francisco, CA	3,787
New York City, NY	3,505
Remote (United States)	3,320
Seattle, WA	2,721
Austin, TX	2,618
Santa Clara, CA	2,345
Sunnyvale, CA	1,842

Compensation

Across 36,399 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $174k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,593	35%
operations	27,084	23%
sales	14,140	12%
services	4,522	4%
data engineering	3,893	3%
machine learning	3,693	3%
finance	3,009	3%
marketing	2,830	2%