Q2 2026 Tech Hiring Report

Quarterly analysis of the tech job market — 117,802 positions across 367 companies

Published May 6, 2026
Executive Summary

The tech job market tracked 117,802 open positions across 367 companies in Q2 2026. Engineering roles account for 44% of all positions (51,594 jobs).

The market median salary stands at $176,500, based on 37,782 postings with compensation data. Remote and hybrid positions represent 5.6% of all tracked roles.

Python remains the most demanded skill at 84% company adoption, followed by API Development, Performance Optimization, AWS.

Market Overview
Total Jobs
117,802
Companies
367
Median Salary
$176,500
Remote + Hybrid
6%

Hiring Velocity

Monthly job postings trend

2025-07
373
2025-08
395
2025-09
688
2025-10
1,154
2025-11
1,280
2025-12
1,781
2026-01
3,608
2026-02
6,090
2026-03
13,598
2026-04
45,496
2026-05
8,263
Skills Landscape

Top 15 Skills

Python
84% adoption
API Development
75% adoption
Performance Optimization
65% adoption
AWS
65% adoption
Data Analytics
61% adoption
SaaS
61% adoption
Machine Learning
57% adoption
Cloud Computing
55% adoption
SQL
54% adoption
LLMs
51% adoption
CI/CD
49% adoption
Kubernetes
46% adoption
Backend Development
46% adoption
Automation
43% adoption
Salesforce
43% adoption

Role Families

Software Engineering
41,586 (35%)
Operations
27,347 (23%)
Sales
14,290 (12%)
Services
4,456 (4%)
Data Engineering
3,856 (3%)
Machine Learning
3,655 (3%)
Finance
2,921 (2%)
Product
2,828 (2%)
Marketing
2,781 (2%)
Security
2,497 (2%)
Design
2,025 (2%)
People
1,516 (1%)
Legal
1,122 (1%)

Emerging Skills

Technologies at early-stage adoption (3–15 companies)

NLP8 cosOpenAI12 cosExpress6 cosiOS11 cosDisaster Recovery11 cosConfiguration Management15 cosServiceNow6 cosZero Trust6 cosSwift6 cosCUDA5 cosMongoDB9 cosSpring12 cosDatadog6 cosOkta3 cosScala10 cos
Compensation

Salary by Seniority

Technical_lead
$199,100
Intern
$109,150
Junior
$100,750
Mid
$150,500
Senior
$176,000
Staff
$225,000
Principal
$209,000
Manager
$166,500
Director
$216,350
Vp
$286,500

Top Hiring Locations

Bangalore, India
5,797
San Francisco, CA
4,023
New York City, NY
3,923
Remote (United States)
3,271
Seattle, WA
3,077
Austin, TX
2,897
Santa Clara, CA
2,391
Sunnyvale, CA
2,343
Singapore
2,014
London, United Kingdom
1,800
Companies

Largest Employers

Amazon
19,225
Tesla
6,054
Apple
5,212
IBM
4,005
Raytheon (RTX)
3,877
Google
3,659
Zapier
3,648
Schneider Electric
2,914
Micron
2,905
Nvidia
2,513

Seniority Distribution

Intern
2,012 (2%)
Junior
2,906 (2%)
Mid
60,321 (51%)
Senior
30,278 (26%)
Staff
3,811 (3%)
Principal
4,302 (4%)
Manager
10,192 (9%)
Director
3,692 (3%)
Vp
283 (0%)

Fastest Growing Employers

Companies with highest hiring velocity increase

1 Amazon 19,225 +223% 2 Apple 5,212 +173% 3 Raytheon (RTX) 3,877 +500% 4 Google 3,659 +500% 5 Zapier 3,648 +500% 6 Schneider Electric 2,914 +289% 7 HPE 1,320 +283% 8 AMD 1,297 +220% 9 Veeva Systems 1,053 +91% 10 Cisco 982 +377%

Q2 2026 Tech Hiring Report · Data from 367 companies · Live Market Pulse

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