Tech Hiring Update — April 19, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 366 companies and 117,627 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,590	+259%
Apple	5,088	+110%
Google	3,925	+500%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,842	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,993	+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	307	84%
API Development	279	76%
AWS	248	68%
Performance Optimization	237	65%
SaaS	224	61%
Data Analytics	214	58%
Machine Learning	206	56%
SQL	204	56%
Cloud Computing	202	55%
LLMs	182	50%

Company Spotlight: Google

3,925 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

5,929 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 943 are hybrid. The remaining 110,755 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,899
San Francisco, CA	3,836
New York City, NY	3,548
Remote (United States)	3,342
Seattle, WA	2,816
Austin, TX	2,679
Santa Clara, CA	2,391
Singapore	1,882

Compensation

Across 36,759 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,660	35%
operations	27,287	23%
sales	13,994	12%
services	4,379	4%
data engineering	3,884	3%
machine learning	3,663	3%
finance	2,959	3%
marketing	2,813	2%