Tech Hiring Update — April 25, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 359 companies and 117,073 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,997	+259%
Apple	5,138	+113%
Raytheon (RTX)	4,086	+500%
Google	3,885	+500%
Zapier	3,885	+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	299	83%
API Development	270	75%
AWS	237	66%
Performance Optimization	228	64%
SaaS	223	62%
Data Analytics	212	59%
Cloud Computing	199	55%
Machine Learning	199	55%
SQL	199	55%
LLMs	180	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

4,086 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

5,862 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 939 are hybrid. The remaining 110,272 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,688
San Francisco, CA	4,012
New York City, NY	3,955
Remote (United States)	3,256
Seattle, WA	3,028
Austin, TX	2,498
Sunnyvale, CA	2,397
Singapore	2,087

Compensation

Across 37,670 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,658	36%
operations	26,858	23%
sales	14,100	12%
services	4,275	4%
data engineering	3,881	3%
machine learning	3,702	3%
finance	2,866	2%
marketing	2,863	2%