Tech Hiring Update — May 14, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 364 companies and 118,224 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	20,046	+227%
Apple	5,143	+172%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,959	+500%
Zapier	3,713	+500%
Google	3,711	+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	305	84%
API Development	279	77%
AWS	236	65%
Performance Optimization	230	63%
SaaS	220	60%
Data Analytics	215	59%
Machine Learning	205	56%
Cloud Computing	204	56%
SQL	192	53%
CI/CD	190	52%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,959 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

5,612 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 613 are hybrid. The remaining 111,999 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,838
New York City, NY	3,966
San Francisco, CA	3,903
Remote (United States)	3,195
Seattle, WA	3,170
Austin, TX	3,025
Santa Clara, CA	2,449
Sunnyvale, CA	2,329

Compensation

Across 38,101 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $176k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,548	35%
operations	27,801	24%
sales	14,307	12%
services	4,496	4%
data engineering	3,786	3%
machine learning	3,663	3%
finance	2,894	2%
product	2,867	2%