May 8, 2026

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

117,105
Open Positions
364
Companies
44%
Engineering
$177k
Median Salary

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

CompanyOpen JobsTrend
Amazon19,370+224%
Apple5,160+178%
Google3,705+500%
Zapier3,693+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.

SkillCompaniesAdoption
Python30283%
API Development27676%
AWS24066%
Performance Optimization23364%
Data Analytics22361%
SaaS21860%
Machine Learning20857%
Cloud Computing20657%
SQL19754%
LLMs18451%

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

LocationOpen Jobs
Bangalore, India5,771
New York City, NY3,940
San Francisco, CA3,924
Remote (United States)3,292
Seattle, WA3,100
Austin, TX2,780
Santa Clara, CA2,413
Sunnyvale, CA2,391

Compensation

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

Hiring by Department

DepartmentJobsShare
software engineering41,24535%
operations27,14823%
sales14,21412%
services4,4184%
data engineering3,8333%
machine learning3,6823%
finance2,9002%
product2,8512%

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