Tech Hiring Update — May 10, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 363 companies and 117,511 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,615	+225%
Apple	5,159	+180%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,689	+500%
Zapier	3,668	+500%
Google	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	302	83%
API Development	277	76%
AWS	237	65%
Performance Optimization	232	64%
Data Analytics	221	61%
SaaS	219	60%
Machine Learning	209	58%
Cloud Computing	207	57%
SQL	192	53%
LLMs	185	51%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,689 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

5,669 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 700 are hybrid. The remaining 111,142 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,779
New York City, NY	3,974
San Francisco, CA	3,943
Remote (United States)	3,210
Seattle, WA	3,132
Austin, TX	2,968
Santa Clara, CA	2,432
Sunnyvale, CA	2,381

Compensation

Across 38,002 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $176k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,317	35%
operations	27,295	23%
sales	14,317	12%
services	4,457	4%
data engineering	3,796	3%
machine learning	3,691	3%
finance	2,919	2%
product	2,846	2%