Tech Hiring Update — April 30, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 366 companies and 119,902 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,237	+260%
Apple	5,165	+111%
Zapier	3,835	+471%
Google	3,807	+476%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,783	+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	276	75%
AWS	243	66%
Performance Optimization	243	66%
Data Analytics	224	61%
SaaS	221	60%
Machine Learning	216	59%
Cloud Computing	208	57%
SQL	203	55%
CI/CD	186	51%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,783 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

6,018 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 917 are hybrid. The remaining 112,967 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,989
San Francisco, CA	4,071
New York City, NY	3,946
Remote (United States)	3,353
Seattle, WA	3,032
Austin, TX	2,630
Santa Clara, CA	2,431
Sunnyvale, CA	2,327

Compensation

Across 38,467 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	42,919	36%
operations	27,685	23%
sales	14,362	12%
services	4,540	4%
data engineering	3,930	3%
machine learning	3,779	3%
finance	2,977	2%
product	2,901	2%