Tech Hiring Update — May 3, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 366 companies and 116,859 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,137	+223%
Apple	5,205	+173%
Google	3,651	+500%
Zapier	3,651	+500%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,628	+493%

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	305	83%
API Development	277	76%
AWS	243	66%
Performance Optimization	241	66%
SaaS	225	61%
Data Analytics	223	61%
Machine Learning	211	58%
Cloud Computing	207	57%
SQL	202	55%
CI/CD	189	52%

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

5,807 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 905 are hybrid. The remaining 110,147 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,696
San Francisco, CA	4,069
New York City, NY	3,929
Remote (United States)	3,255
Seattle, WA	3,031
Austin, TX	2,918
Santa Clara, CA	2,380
Sunnyvale, CA	2,325

Compensation

Across 37,524 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,330	35%
operations	27,109	23%
sales	14,164	12%
services	4,386	4%
data engineering	3,804	3%
machine learning	3,663	3%
finance	2,888	2%
product	2,838	2%