Tech Hiring Update — April 27, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 366 companies and 121,270 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	18,890	+257%
Apple	5,149	+114%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,947	+500%
Google	3,897	+500%
Zapier	3,826	+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	304	83%
API Development	274	75%
AWS	241	66%
Performance Optimization	230	63%
SaaS	225	61%
Data Analytics	217	59%
Machine Learning	204	56%
Cloud Computing	200	55%
SQL	198	54%
CI/CD	183	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,947 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

5,929 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 944 are hybrid. The remaining 114,397 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,093
San Francisco, CA	4,034
New York City, NY	3,949
Remote (United States)	3,289
Seattle, WA	2,863
Austin, TX	2,798
Santa Clara, CA	2,430
Sunnyvale, CA	2,386

Compensation

Across 38,891 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	43,429	36%
operations	28,135	23%
sales	14,381	12%
services	4,537	4%
data engineering	3,903	3%
machine learning	3,806	3%
finance	2,962	2%
product	2,930	2%