Tech Hiring Update — May 19, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 363 companies and 111,540 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	20,062	+228%
Apple	5,142	+173%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,972	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,941	+276%
AMD	1,302	+227%

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	276	76%
AWS	233	64%
Performance Optimization	230	63%
SaaS	221	61%
Data Analytics	210	58%
Machine Learning	201	55%
Cloud Computing	200	55%
SQL	189	52%
LLMs	187	52%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,972 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

5,469 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 552 are hybrid. The remaining 105,519 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,014
San Francisco, CA	3,645
New York City, NY	3,586
Remote (United States)	3,072
Seattle, WA	3,027
Austin, TX	2,865
Santa Clara, CA	2,491
Singapore	1,891

Compensation

Across 36,277 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $179k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	38,650	35%
operations	26,846	24%
sales	13,254	12%
services	4,310	4%
data engineering	3,629	3%
machine learning	3,583	3%
finance	2,736	2%
marketing	2,648	2%