Tech Hiring Update — May 5, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 367 companies and 117,299 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,233	+222%
Apple	5,199	+173%
Raytheon (RTX)	4,224	+500%
Zapier	3,555	+500%
Google	3,541	+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	275	75%
AWS	241	66%
Performance Optimization	240	65%
SaaS	223	61%
Data Analytics	220	60%
Machine Learning	210	57%
Cloud Computing	204	56%
SQL	204	56%
LLMs	187	51%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

4,224 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

5,812 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 879 are hybrid. The remaining 110,608 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,756
San Francisco, CA	4,001
New York City, NY	3,893
Remote (United States)	3,271
Seattle, WA	3,037
Austin, TX	2,904
Santa Clara, CA	2,418
Sunnyvale, CA	2,291

Compensation

Across 37,095 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,402	35%
operations	27,293	23%
sales	14,184	12%
services	4,428	4%
data engineering	3,837	3%
machine learning	3,647	3%
finance	2,879	2%
product	2,846	2%