Tech Hiring Update — May 26, 2026

This week's snapshot of the tech job market across 359 companies and 111,006 open positions.

Hiring Up

Companies with the strongest hiring momentum this month:

Company	Open Jobs	Trend
Amazon	20,387	+220%
Apple	5,195	+178%
Raytheon (RTX)	4,357	+500%
Schneider Electric	2,933	+272%
AMD	1,169	+230%

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	272	76%
AWS	229	64%
Performance Optimization	229	64%
SaaS	213	59%
Data Analytics	203	57%
Cloud Computing	201	56%
Machine Learning	194	54%
SQL	182	51%
LLMs	181	50%

Company Spotlight: Raytheon (RTX)

4,357 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

5,326 positions (5%) are listed as remote. 544 are hybrid. The remaining 105,136 are on-site.

Top Hiring Locations

Location	Open Jobs
Bangalore, India	4,963
San Francisco, CA	3,696
New York City, NY	3,538
Seattle, WA	3,043
Remote (United States)	3,003
Austin, TX	2,832
Santa Clara, CA	2,458
Singapore	1,942

Compensation

Across 36,072 jobs with published salary data, the market median is $180k.

Hiring by Department

Department	Jobs	Share
software engineering	38,151	34%
operations	27,303	25%
sales	13,031	12%
services	4,203	4%
machine learning	3,600	3%
data engineering	3,475	3%
finance	2,767	2%
marketing	2,667	2%