Tech Hiring Update — April 14, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 368 companies and 118,046 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,456	+261%
Apple	5,048	+109%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,779	+500%
Google	3,771	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,975	+456%

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	310	84%
API Development	272	74%
AWS	249	68%
Performance Optimization	241	65%
SaaS	225	61%
Data Analytics	212	58%
Machine Learning	210	57%
Cloud Computing	205	56%
SQL	195	53%
Backend Development	185	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,779 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

5,883 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 960 are hybrid. The remaining 111,203 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,044
San Francisco, CA	3,741
New York City, NY	3,488
Remote (United States)	3,312
Seattle, WA	2,778
Austin, TX	2,610
Santa Clara, CA	2,416
Sunnyvale, CA	1,835

Compensation

Across 36,566 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,768	35%
operations	27,300	23%
sales	14,134	12%
services	4,510	4%
data engineering	3,915	3%
machine learning	3,703	3%
finance	3,007	3%
marketing	2,821	2%