Tech Hiring Update — May 11, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 363 companies and 117,437 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,571	+225%
Apple	5,162	+178%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,697	+500%
Google	3,656	+500%
Zapier	3,607	+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	301	83%
API Development	278	77%
AWS	238	66%
Performance Optimization	230	63%
SaaS	221	61%
Data Analytics	219	60%
Cloud Computing	208	57%
Machine Learning	207	57%
SQL	192	53%
LLMs	184	51%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,697 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

5,670 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 703 are hybrid. The remaining 111,064 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,825
New York City, NY	3,965
San Francisco, CA	3,931
Remote (United States)	3,204
Seattle, WA	3,113
Austin, TX	2,978
Santa Clara, CA	2,452
Sunnyvale, CA	2,375

Compensation

Across 37,832 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $177k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,346	35%
operations	27,231	23%
sales	14,312	12%
services	4,468	4%
data engineering	3,816	3%
machine learning	3,676	3%
finance	2,905	2%
product	2,850	2%