Tech Hiring Update — April 15, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 367 companies and 118,278 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,639	+261%
Apple	5,070	+109%
Google	3,870	+500%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,674	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,981	+449%

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	306	83%
API Development	273	74%
AWS	248	68%
Performance Optimization	239	65%
SaaS	222	60%
Data Analytics	215	59%
Machine Learning	210	57%
Cloud Computing	202	55%
SQL	193	53%
LLMs	187	51%

Company Spotlight: Google

3,870 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

5,888 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 959 are hybrid. The remaining 111,431 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,053
San Francisco, CA	3,759
New York City, NY	3,507
Remote (United States)	3,307
Seattle, WA	2,816
Austin, TX	2,693
Santa Clara, CA	2,386
Sunnyvale, CA	1,841

Compensation

Across 36,751 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,816	35%
operations	27,430	23%
sales	14,160	12%
services	4,480	4%
data engineering	3,913	3%
machine learning	3,688	3%
finance	3,015	3%
marketing	2,825	2%