Tech Hiring Update — April 23, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 364 companies and 121,340 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,866	+262%
Apple	5,138	+112%
Google	3,947	+500%
Zapier	3,943	+500%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,781	+500%

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	308	85%
API Development	277	76%
AWS	243	67%
Performance Optimization	234	64%
Data Analytics	220	60%
SaaS	220	60%
Machine Learning	206	57%
Cloud Computing	205	56%
SQL	200	55%
LLMs	183	50%

Company Spotlight: Google

3,947 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

5,913 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 937 are hybrid. The remaining 114,490 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,183
San Francisco, CA	4,089
New York City, NY	3,871
Remote (United States)	3,321
Seattle, WA	3,027
Austin, TX	2,672
Sunnyvale, CA	2,424
Santa Clara, CA	2,416

Compensation

Across 38,795 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	43,285	36%
operations	28,143	23%
sales	14,360	12%
services	4,603	4%
data engineering	3,940	3%
machine learning	3,812	3%
finance	3,012	2%
product	2,922	2%