Tech Hiring Update — April 16, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 368 companies and 119,257 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,693	+259%
Apple	5,079	+107%
Google	3,916	+500%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,912	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,994	+446%

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	278	76%
AWS	247	67%
Performance Optimization	238	65%
SaaS	222	60%
Data Analytics	220	60%
Machine Learning	212	58%
Cloud Computing	202	55%
SQL	198	54%
LLMs	186	51%

Company Spotlight: Google

3,916 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

5,896 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 941 are hybrid. The remaining 112,420 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,118
San Francisco, CA	3,805
New York City, NY	3,545
Remote (United States)	3,339
Seattle, WA	2,830
Austin, TX	2,701
Santa Clara, CA	2,422
Singapore	1,829

Compensation

Across 37,216 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	42,130	35%
operations	27,740	23%
sales	14,230	12%
services	4,488	4%
data engineering	3,961	3%
machine learning	3,712	3%
finance	3,029	3%
product	2,863	2%