Tech Hiring Update — May 22, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 360 companies and 111,490 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	20,558	+223%
Apple	5,223	+180%
Schneider Electric	2,974	+279%
AMD	1,284	+232%
HPE	1,217	+284%

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	297	83%
API Development	274	76%
AWS	230	64%
Performance Optimization	225	63%
SaaS	213	59%
Data Analytics	206	57%
Cloud Computing	200	56%
Machine Learning	200	56%
SQL	184	51%
LLMs	179	50%

Company Spotlight: Cisco

895 open positions. Top skills: Python, Networking, Testing. Hiring +340%

Cisco is in aggressive expansion mode, with hiring up 108% over two months and 905 open roles—71% in engineering. What stands out is the mid-career concentration: 56% of positions target mid-level engineers, while senior and staff roles together account for only 27%. This skew suggests Cisco is s...

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Remote Work

5,419 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 551 are hybrid. The remaining 105,520 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	5,033
San Francisco, CA	3,656
New York City, NY	3,510
Remote (United States)	3,056
Seattle, WA	3,038
Austin, TX	2,860
Santa Clara, CA	2,461
Singapore	1,887

Compensation

Across 36,239 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $180k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	38,407	34%
operations	27,105	24%
sales	13,133	12%
services	4,263	4%
data engineering	3,636	3%
machine learning	3,591	3%
finance	2,794	3%
marketing	2,674	2%