Tech Hiring Update — April 26, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 366 companies and 122,018 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,945	+259%
Apple	5,158	+112%
Raytheon (RTX)	4,236	+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	306	84%
API Development	275	75%
AWS	243	66%
Performance Optimization	231	63%
SaaS	225	61%
Data Analytics	217	59%
Machine Learning	207	57%
Cloud Computing	201	55%
SQL	199	54%
LLMs	184	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

4,236 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

5,945 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 940 are hybrid. The remaining 115,133 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,079
San Francisco, CA	4,045
New York City, NY	3,970
Remote (United States)	3,306
Seattle, WA	3,024
Austin, TX	2,650
Santa Clara, CA	2,441
Sunnyvale, CA	2,393

Compensation

Across 39,046 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	43,800	36%
operations	28,282	23%
sales	14,423	12%
services	4,555	4%
data engineering	3,958	3%
machine learning	3,821	3%
finance	2,972	2%
product	2,919	2%