Tech Hiring Update — May 15, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 363 companies and 117,754 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	20,098	+228%
Apple	5,129	+174%
Google	3,792	+500%
Zapier	3,781	+500%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,563	+446%

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	303	83%
API Development	282	78%
AWS	239	66%
Performance Optimization	230	63%
SaaS	218	60%
Data Analytics	214	59%
Cloud Computing	205	56%
Machine Learning	204	56%
SQL	191	53%
CI/CD	191	53%

Company Spotlight: Google

3,792 open positions. Top skills: GCP, System Design, Distributed Systems. Hiring +500%

Google is hiring aggressively across 3400 open roles, with engineering representing 1886 positions (55% of total). Most striking is the 500% surge in hiring over the past two months, signaling rapid scaling in cloud and AI infrastructure. The skill distribution tells the story: GCP (42%), System ...

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Remote Work

5,554 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 610 are hybrid. The remaining 111,590 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,784
New York City, NY	3,996
San Francisco, CA	3,910
Seattle, WA	3,220
Remote (United States)	3,180
Austin, TX	3,051
Santa Clara, CA	2,468
Sunnyvale, CA	2,389

Compensation

Across 37,959 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $175k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	41,446	35%
operations	27,544	23%
sales	14,234	12%
services	4,549	4%
data engineering	3,779	3%
machine learning	3,688	3%
product	2,852	2%
finance	2,821	2%