Tech Hiring Update — May 16, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 318 companies and 96,023 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	20,107	+228%
Apple	5,133	+175%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,855	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,904	+274%
AMD	1,309	+235%

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	268	84%
API Development	246	77%
AWS	206	65%
SaaS	199	63%
Performance Optimization	189	59%
Data Analytics	183	58%
Cloud Computing	177	56%
Machine Learning	176	55%
SQL	170	53%
LLMs	162	51%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,855 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

4,814 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 600 are hybrid. The remaining 90,609 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	4,302
San Francisco, CA	3,588
New York City, NY	3,504
Seattle, WA	3,019
Remote (United States)	2,747
Austin, TX	2,618
London, United Kingdom	1,776
Sunnyvale, CA	1,652

Compensation

Across 33,037 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $183k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	31,681	33%
operations	23,113	24%
sales	11,912	12%
services	3,544	4%
data engineering	3,220	3%
machine learning	2,942	3%
finance	2,451	3%
marketing	2,393	2%