Tech Hiring Update — May 24, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 360 companies and 110,997 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	20,562	+221%
Apple	5,200	+178%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,936	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,961	+278%
AMD	1,169	+233%

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	295	82%
API Development	276	77%
AWS	227	63%
Performance Optimization	226	63%
SaaS	213	59%
Data Analytics	206	57%
Cloud Computing	202	56%
Machine Learning	198	55%
LLMs	184	51%
SQL	183	51%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,936 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

5,380 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 545 are hybrid. The remaining 105,072 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	4,929
San Francisco, CA	3,683
New York City, NY	3,535
Seattle, WA	3,051
Remote (United States)	3,045
Austin, TX	2,819
Santa Clara, CA	2,451
Singapore	1,873

Compensation

Across 36,259 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $181k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	38,126	34%
operations	27,206	25%
sales	13,069	12%
services	4,235	4%
machine learning	3,599	3%
data engineering	3,512	3%
finance	2,775	3%
marketing	2,664	2%