Tech Hiring Update — May 6, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 367 companies and 117,802 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,225	+223%
Apple	5,212	+173%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,877	+500%
Google	3,659	+500%
Zapier	3,648	+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%
Performance Optimization	240	65%
AWS	238	65%
Data Analytics	223	61%
SaaS	223	61%
Machine Learning	211	57%
Cloud Computing	202	55%
SQL	200	54%
LLMs	186	51%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,877 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

5,790 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 881 are hybrid. The remaining 111,131 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,797
San Francisco, CA	4,023
New York City, NY	3,923
Remote (United States)	3,271
Seattle, WA	3,077
Austin, TX	2,897
Santa Clara, CA	2,391
Sunnyvale, CA	2,343

Compensation

Across 37,782 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $177k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,586	35%
operations	27,347	23%
sales	14,290	12%
services	4,456	4%
data engineering	3,856	3%
machine learning	3,655	3%
finance	2,921	2%
product	2,828	2%