Tech Hiring Update — May 21, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 363 companies and 111,568 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	20,544	+224%
Apple	5,180	+181%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,858	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,949	+275%
AMD	1,292	+238%

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	271	75%
AWS	233	64%
Performance Optimization	224	62%
SaaS	215	59%
Data Analytics	203	56%
Machine Learning	201	55%
Cloud Computing	198	55%
SQL	187	52%
CI/CD	182	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,858 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

5,506 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 553 are hybrid. The remaining 105,509 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,046
San Francisco, CA	3,650
New York City, NY	3,495
Remote (United States)	3,091
Seattle, WA	3,004
Austin, TX	2,857
Santa Clara, CA	2,494
Singapore	1,940

Compensation

Across 36,099 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $181k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	38,475	34%
operations	27,068	24%
sales	13,253	12%
services	4,271	4%
data engineering	3,623	3%
machine learning	3,567	3%
finance	2,783	2%
marketing	2,679	2%