Tech Hiring Update — May 20, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 362 companies and 111,010 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	20,265	+228%
Apple	5,166	+177%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,522	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,948	+274%
AMD	1,299	+234%

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	298	82%
API Development	273	75%
AWS	231	64%
Performance Optimization	229	63%
SaaS	221	61%
Data Analytics	211	58%
Machine Learning	203	56%
Cloud Computing	200	55%
SQL	187	52%
LLMs	183	51%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,522 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

5,472 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 549 are hybrid. The remaining 104,989 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,063
San Francisco, CA	3,639
New York City, NY	3,535
Remote (United States)	3,088
Seattle, WA	3,035
Austin, TX	2,869
Santa Clara, CA	2,491
Singapore	1,871

Compensation

Across 36,038 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $180k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	38,453	35%
operations	26,680	24%
sales	13,228	12%
services	4,286	4%
data engineering	3,650	3%
machine learning	3,552	3%
finance	2,753	2%
marketing	2,667	2%