Tech Hiring Update — April 17, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 367 companies and 118,691 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,670	+261%
Apple	5,094	+109%
Google	3,912	+500%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,779	+500%
Schneider Electric	3,002	+452%

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	237	65%
SaaS	222	60%
Data Analytics	216	59%
Machine Learning	209	57%
Cloud Computing	202	55%
SQL	201	55%
LLMs	183	50%

Company Spotlight: Google

3,912 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

5,870 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 938 are hybrid. The remaining 111,883 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,089
San Francisco, CA	3,823
New York City, NY	3,518
Remote (United States)	3,297
Seattle, WA	2,815
Austin, TX	2,688
Santa Clara, CA	2,392
Singapore	1,878

Compensation

Across 37,182 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,985	35%
operations	27,559	23%
sales	14,120	12%
services	4,493	4%
data engineering	3,910	3%
machine learning	3,660	3%
finance	3,008	3%
product	2,840	2%