Tech Hiring Update — May 9, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 349 companies and 110,925 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,652	+226%
Apple	5,171	+179%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,955	+500%
Google	3,668	+500%
Zapier	3,668	+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	289	83%
API Development	266	76%
AWS	229	66%
Performance Optimization	221	63%
Data Analytics	217	62%
SaaS	212	61%
Cloud Computing	197	56%
Machine Learning	197	56%
SQL	188	54%
LLMs	175	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,955 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

5,419 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 701 are hybrid. The remaining 104,805 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,338
New York City, NY	3,959
San Francisco, CA	3,913
Seattle, WA	3,100
Remote (United States)	3,069
Austin, TX	2,796
Sunnyvale, CA	2,369
Singapore	2,006

Compensation

Across 35,891 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $178k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	38,496	35%
operations	25,690	23%
sales	13,573	12%
services	4,040	4%
data engineering	3,714	3%
machine learning	3,492	3%
product	2,774	3%
finance	2,770	2%