Tech Hiring Update — April 29, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 366 companies and 120,702 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,196	+260%
Apple	5,146	+112%
Google	3,847	+500%
Zapier	3,838	+500%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,806	+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	84%
API Development	275	75%
AWS	245	67%
Performance Optimization	239	65%
SaaS	222	61%
Data Analytics	220	60%
Machine Learning	213	58%
Cloud Computing	207	57%
SQL	201	55%
LLMs	179	49%

Company Spotlight: Google

3,847 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

6,002 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 934 are hybrid. The remaining 113,766 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,088
San Francisco, CA	4,060
New York City, NY	3,952
Remote (United States)	3,340
Seattle, WA	2,853
Austin, TX	2,777
Santa Clara, CA	2,397
Sunnyvale, CA	2,361

Compensation

Across 38,800 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	43,335	36%
operations	27,919	23%
sales	14,470	12%
services	4,515	4%
data engineering	3,912	3%
machine learning	3,805	3%
finance	2,985	2%
product	2,906	2%