Tech Hiring Update — April 20, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 365 companies and 117,506 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,518	+259%
Apple	5,084	+112%
Raytheon (RTX)	4,039	+500%
Google	3,944	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,995	+448%

Hiring Down

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Viasat	224	-27%

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	280	77%
AWS	246	67%
Performance Optimization	236	65%
SaaS	222	61%
Data Analytics	212	58%
Machine Learning	206	56%
SQL	204	56%
Cloud Computing	201	55%
CI/CD	180	49%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

4,039 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

5,893 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 944 are hybrid. The remaining 110,669 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,843
San Francisco, CA	3,836
New York City, NY	3,542
Remote (United States)	3,317
Seattle, WA	2,810
Austin, TX	2,670
Santa Clara, CA	2,391
Singapore	1,870

Compensation

Across 36,758 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,575	35%
operations	27,322	23%
sales	13,938	12%
services	4,383	4%
data engineering	3,885	3%
machine learning	3,654	3%
finance	2,969	3%
marketing	2,813	2%