Tech Hiring Update — May 4, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 366 companies and 117,522 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,122	+223%
Apple	5,196	+175%
Raytheon (RTX)	4,083	+500%
Google	3,663	+500%
Zapier	3,655	+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	305	83%
API Development	279	76%
AWS	244	67%
Performance Optimization	242	66%
SaaS	224	61%
Data Analytics	219	60%
Machine Learning	211	58%
Cloud Computing	207	57%
SQL	204	56%
CI/CD	187	51%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

4,083 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. 900 are hybrid. The remaining 110,818 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,717
San Francisco, CA	4,091
New York City, NY	3,926
Remote (United States)	3,256
Seattle, WA	3,027
Austin, TX	2,927
Santa Clara, CA	2,398
Sunnyvale, CA	2,330

Compensation

Across 37,760 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,510	35%
operations	27,351	23%
sales	14,185	12%
services	4,416	4%
data engineering	3,844	3%
machine learning	3,675	3%
finance	2,899	2%
marketing	2,835	2%