Tech Hiring Update — May 2, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 353 companies and 111,320 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,218	+222%
Apple	5,217	+173%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,891	+478%
Google	3,651	+500%
Zapier	3,651	+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	293	83%
API Development	267	76%
AWS	235	67%
Performance Optimization	229	65%
SaaS	218	62%
Data Analytics	215	61%
Machine Learning	200	57%
Cloud Computing	198	56%
SQL	197	56%
LLMs	179	51%

Company Spotlight: Google

3,651 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

5,552 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 905 are hybrid. The remaining 104,863 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,273
San Francisco, CA	4,051
New York City, NY	3,912
Remote (United States)	3,091
Seattle, WA	2,986
Austin, TX	2,759
Sunnyvale, CA	2,292
Singapore	1,986

Compensation

Across 35,794 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	39,121	35%
operations	25,669	23%
sales	13,452	12%
services	4,051	4%
data engineering	3,721	3%
machine learning	3,553	3%
finance	2,793	3%
marketing	2,762	2%