Tech Hiring Update — May 25, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 358 companies and 109,704 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	20,527	+222%
Apple	5,202	+177%
Raytheon (RTX)	3,439	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,941	+274%
HPE	1,258	+283%

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	293	82%
API Development	273	76%
AWS	226	63%
Performance Optimization	225	63%
SaaS	211	59%
Data Analytics	204	57%
Cloud Computing	200	56%
Machine Learning	200	56%
SQL	184	51%
LLMs	179	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

3,439 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...

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Remote Work

5,351 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 543 are hybrid. The remaining 103,810 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	4,989
San Francisco, CA	3,630
New York City, NY	3,416
Seattle, WA	3,034
Remote (United States)	3,019
Austin, TX	2,784
Santa Clara, CA	2,452
Singapore	1,878

Compensation

Across 35,933 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $181k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	37,688	34%
operations	26,913	25%
sales	12,938	12%
services	4,212	4%
machine learning	3,584	3%
data engineering	3,451	3%
finance	2,734	2%
marketing	2,644	2%