Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
101,588Postings3,207 last week
4,557Employers525 last week
4,090Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 101,588 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 3,207 new postings entered the data in the last complete week.
Enterprise Platforms leads demand among software roles, with around a quarter of postings. Bangalore remains the biggest hiring hub, taking around two in five of openings. Among industries, SaaS sits on top. Java still heads the programming languages table.
Demand Leaderboard — India's software roles, cities, company types and industries, ranked by hiring demand
| Overall▲ | Fresher▾ | Δ rank | Peak | Role | Share | Δ share | Top-5 wks | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | – | 1 | Enterprise Platforms | – | 42 | ||
| 2 | 3 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | −1pp | 40 | ||
| 3 | 2 | ▼1 | 1 | Backend Development | −2pp | 42 | ||
| 4 | 7 | ▲1 | 4 | AI & LLM Applications | +3pp | 10 | ||
| 5 | 5 | ▼1 | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | +1pp | 32 | ||
| 6 | 4 | ▲1 | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 16 | ||
| 7 | 6 | ▼1 | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −1pp | 14 | ||
| 8 | 10 | ▲1 | 7 | Data Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 9 | 9 | ▲1 | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | – | 0 | ||
| 10 | 8 | ▼2 | 2 | QA & Testing | −2pp | 14 | ||
| 11 | 12 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 12 | 11 | – | 9 | Frontend Development | – | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | – | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 14 | ▲1 | 11 | Data Science & ML | – | 0 | ||
| 15 | 15 | ▼1 | 13 | Data Analytics & BI | – | 0 |
Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season
Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development1,297
Enterprise Platforms1,081
Fullstack Development1,078
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,121
Delhi NCR988
Hyderabad969
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+9.7pp
TypeScript+4.8pp
C#+1.4pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+4.2pp
Angular+2.6pp
jQuery-0.1pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+4.2pp
WebSockets+0.3pp
OpenAPI/Swagger-0.4pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+2.5pp
LangGraph+2.0pp
Semantic Kernel+1.6pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+2.4pp
Redux Toolkit0.0pp
Redux Saga-0.1pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+2.4pp
Tomcat0.0pp
Spring MVC-0.7pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenAI API+1.3pp
Anthropic Claude+1.1pp
Azure OpenAI+1.1pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Redis+1.1pp
Memcached+0.2pp
Neo4j0.0pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
FastAPI+1.1pp
Node.js+0.9pp
NestJS+0.1pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+1.1pp
Bicep+0.6pp
Vertex AI+0.5pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+1.1pp
pgvector+1.0pp
Pinecone+0.9pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure+0.9pp
GCP-0.2pp
AWS-1.2pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.7pp
SageMaker+0.5pp
CDK+0.1pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.7pp
SageMaker+0.5pp
Vertex AI+0.5pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Terraform+0.6pp
Bicep+0.6pp
CDK+0.1pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cucumber+0.3pp
Mocha+0.2pp
TestNG+0.1pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.3pp
Selenium-0.2pp
Cypress-0.4pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.2pp
SVN0.0pp
Harness-0.1pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenTelemetry+0.2pp
Prometheus0.0pp
CloudWatch0.0pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Flink+0.2pp
Kafka Streams+0.2pp
Pulsar+0.1pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Airflow+0.2pp
Hive+0.2pp
Spark SQL+0.2pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure Synapse+0.2pp
Databricks+0.1pp
Delta Lake+0.1pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.1pp
Istio-0.2pp
OpenShift-0.4pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.1pp
Amazon ECS+0.1pp
Lambda-0.1pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Redshift+0.1pp
Amazon Kinesis-0.1pp
EMR-0.2pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch+0.1pp
TensorFlow-0.1pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
IBM Db20.0pp
PostgreSQL-0.4pp
Amazon Aurora-0.4pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI0.0pp
Tableau-0.2pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap-0.1pp
Tailwind CSS-0.1pp
Sass/SCSS-0.3pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
NumPy-0.1pp
Pandas-0.2pp
MLflow-0.2pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture1,691
JPMorganChase57
Deloitte40
Skill Top 10s — the most-demanded software skills in Indian job postings
Languages
Programming Languages
i1Java
2Python
3SQL
4JavaScript
5TypeScript
6C#
7Go
8Bash
9Unix Shell
10C/C++