Tech Hiring Update — May 13, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 364 companies and 117,663 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	19,884	+227%
Apple	5,154	+177%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,739	+500%
Zapier	3,665	+500%
Google	3,654	+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	282	77%
AWS	236	65%
Performance Optimization	231	63%
SaaS	219	60%
Data Analytics	216	59%
Cloud Computing	204	56%
Machine Learning	204	56%
SQL	186	51%
CI/CD	185	51%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,739 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

5,576 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 697 are hybrid. The remaining 111,390 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,829
New York City, NY	3,959
San Francisco, CA	3,897
Remote (United States)	3,142
Seattle, WA	3,118
Austin, TX	3,022
Santa Clara, CA	2,444
Sunnyvale, CA	2,329

Compensation

Across 37,835 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $177k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,407	35%
operations	27,559	23%
sales	14,296	12%
services	4,488	4%
data engineering	3,786	3%
machine learning	3,674	3%
finance	2,858	2%
product	2,829	2%