Tech Hiring Update — May 23, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 349 companies and 105,735 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	20,602	+223%
Apple	5,211	+178%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,946	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,968	+280%
HPE	1,259	+280%

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	286	82%
API Development	267	77%
AWS	219	63%
Performance Optimization	217	62%
SaaS	209	60%
Data Analytics	203	58%
Cloud Computing	192	55%
Machine Learning	190	54%
SQL	180	52%
LLMs	178	51%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,946 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

5,140 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 542 are hybrid. The remaining 100,053 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	4,597
San Francisco, CA	3,648
New York City, NY	3,529
Seattle, WA	2,987
Remote (United States)	2,883
Austin, TX	2,688
Santa Clara, CA	1,922
Singapore	1,884

Compensation

Across 34,388 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $184k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	36,101	34%
operations	25,672	24%
sales	12,493	12%
services	3,901	4%
machine learning	3,474	3%
data engineering	3,414	3%
finance	2,678	3%
marketing	2,600	2%