Tech Hiring Update — May 1, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 366 companies and 120,196 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,274	+221%
Apple	5,207	+171%
Raytheon (RTX)	4,263	+500%
Google	3,895	+500%
Zapier	3,894	+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	307	84%
API Development	276	75%
AWS	240	66%
Performance Optimization	238	65%
Data Analytics	225	61%
SaaS	223	61%
Machine Learning	210	57%
Cloud Computing	206	56%
SQL	206	56%
CI/CD	192	52%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

4,263 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

5,804 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 914 are hybrid. The remaining 113,478 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	6,069
San Francisco, CA	4,096
New York City, NY	3,974
Remote (United States)	3,269
Seattle, WA	3,029
Austin, TX	2,953
Santa Clara, CA	2,429
Sunnyvale, CA	2,347

Compensation

Across 38,992 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	42,756	36%
operations	28,007	23%
sales	14,318	12%
services	4,532	4%
data engineering	3,930	3%
machine learning	3,734	3%
finance	2,964	2%
product	2,894	2%