Tech Hiring Update — April 28, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 366 companies and 120,611 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,006	+258%
Apple	5,138	+111%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,903	+500%
Zapier	3,777	+500%
Google	3,773	+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	272	74%
AWS	241	66%
Performance Optimization	240	66%
Data Analytics	223	61%
SaaS	222	61%
Machine Learning	208	57%
Cloud Computing	204	56%
SQL	195	53%
LLMs	182	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,903 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

6,009 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 942 are hybrid. The remaining 113,660 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,051
San Francisco, CA	4,007
New York City, NY	3,926
Remote (United States)	3,350
Austin, TX	2,924
Seattle, WA	2,684
Santa Clara, CA	2,412
Sunnyvale, CA	2,343

Compensation

Across 38,749 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	43,358	36%
operations	27,977	23%
sales	14,360	12%
services	4,551	4%
data engineering	3,917	3%
machine learning	3,788	3%
finance	2,960	2%
product	2,906	2%