Tech Hiring Update — May 8, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 364 companies and 117,105 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,370	+224%
Apple	5,160	+178%
Google	3,705	+500%
Zapier	3,693	+500%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,499	+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	302	83%
API Development	276	76%
AWS	240	66%
Performance Optimization	233	64%
Data Analytics	223	61%
SaaS	218	60%
Machine Learning	208	57%
Cloud Computing	206	57%
SQL	197	54%
LLMs	184	51%

Company Spotlight: Google

3,705 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

5,785 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 701 are hybrid. The remaining 110,619 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,771
New York City, NY	3,940
San Francisco, CA	3,924
Remote (United States)	3,292
Seattle, WA	3,100
Austin, TX	2,780
Santa Clara, CA	2,413
Sunnyvale, CA	2,391

Compensation

Across 37,975 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $177k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,245	35%
operations	27,148	23%
sales	14,214	12%
services	4,418	4%
data engineering	3,833	3%
machine learning	3,682	3%
finance	2,900	2%
product	2,851	2%