Tech Hiring Update — April 18, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 327 companies and 98,773 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,661	+260%
Apple	5,086	+111%
Raytheon (RTX)	4,097	+500%
Google	3,925	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,991	+447%

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	273	83%
API Development	249	76%
AWS	219	67%
SaaS	205	63%
Performance Optimization	203	62%
Data Analytics	187	57%
SQL	185	57%
Machine Learning	183	56%
Cloud Computing	175	54%
LLMs	165	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

4,097 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

5,307 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 945 are hybrid. The remaining 92,521 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	4,774
San Francisco, CA	3,731
New York City, NY	3,438
Remote (United States)	2,947
Seattle, WA	2,735
Austin, TX	2,410
London, United Kingdom	1,703
Sunnyvale, CA	1,652

Compensation

Across 32,586 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $177k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	33,519	34%
operations	23,071	23%
sales	12,164	12%
services	3,598	4%
data engineering	3,368	3%
machine learning	3,030	3%
finance	2,583	3%
marketing	2,511	3%