Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
66,982Postings1,743 last week
3,309Employers471 last week
542Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Every figure on this page comes from 66,982 real Indian software job postings, collected and classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 1,743 new postings entered the data this week.
Enterprise Platforms leads demand among software roles, with around a third 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 | 2 | – | 1 | Enterprise Platforms | +6pp | 25 | ||
| 2 | 1 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | – | 25 | ||
| 3 | 4 | ▼1 | 1 | Backend Development | −4pp | 25 | ||
| 4 | 7 | ▲2 | 4 | AI & LLM Applications | +2pp | 3 | ||
| 5 | 3 | ▼1 | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −2pp | 12 | ||
| 6 | 8 | ▼1 | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | −1pp | 21 | ||
| 7 | 9 | – | 5 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | −1pp | 9 | ||
| 8 | 5 | – | 5 | QA & Testing | – | 5 | ||
| 9 | 11 | – | 7 | Data Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 10 | 10 | – | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | – | 0 | ||
| 11 | 6 | – | 10 | Frontend Development | – | 0 | ||
| 12 | 12 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | ▲1 | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 15 | ▼1 | 13 | Data Analytics & BI | – | 0 | ||
| 15 | 14 | – | 14 | Data Science & ML | – | 0 |
Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season
Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development851
Fullstack Development706
Enterprise Platforms670
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore2,646
Delhi NCR824
Hyderabad743
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
TypeScript+5.7pp
Python+4.1pp
JavaScript+1.4pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+5.6pp
Angular+3.1pp
NgRx+0.1pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+5.3pp
SOAP+1.7pp
WebSockets0.0pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+3.8pp
React Context API+0.5pp
React Hooks+0.4pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PostgreSQL+1.6pp
Amazon Aurora+0.1pp
IBM Db2-0.3pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+0.9pp
JSP+0.1pp
Tomcat-0.6pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+0.9pp
LangGraph+0.6pp
Semantic Kernel+0.5pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Anthropic Claude+0.7pp
OpenAI API+0.5pp
Gemini+0.3pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+0.6pp
CDK-0.2pp
Puppet-0.2pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+0.6pp
Vertex AI+0.4pp
Event Hubs+0.2pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch+0.5pp
TensorFlow+0.2pp
Keras+0.2pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SageMaker+0.4pp
Amazon Bedrock+0.1pp
CodePipeline0.0pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+0.4pp
SQS+0.2pp
Event Hubs+0.2pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Databricks+0.4pp
Snowflake+0.2pp
Redshift+0.2pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SageMaker+0.4pp
Vertex AI+0.4pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.2pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+0.4pp
pgvector+0.4pp
Pinecone+0.3pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Node.js+0.2pp
NestJS+0.1pp
FastAPI0.0pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SQS+0.2pp
Redshift+0.2pp
Amazon Aurora+0.1pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pandas+0.2pp
MLflow+0.2pp
NumPy+0.1pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Aerospike+0.1pp
Couchbase0.0pp
Neo4j0.0pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Styled Components+0.1pp
Sass/SCSS0.0pp
Tailwind CSS0.0pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.1pp
CircleCI+0.1pp
Azure DevOps0.0pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Airflow+0.1pp
AWS Glue+0.1pp
dbt+0.1pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Mocha0.0pp
xUnit0.0pp
Jest-0.2pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Istio0.0pp
OpenShift-0.8pp
Helm-0.9pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AppDynamics0.0pp
Datadog-0.2pp
CloudWatch-0.3pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon ALB0.0pp
Lambda-0.1pp
Amazon ECS-0.1pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI-0.1pp
Tableau-0.2pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Postman-0.2pp
Cypress-0.5pp
Playwright-0.6pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS-2.6pp
GCP-3.0pp
Azure-4.8pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture404
Capgemini90
Scout Inc.40
Skill Top 10s — the most-demanded software skills in Indian job postings
Languages
Programming Languages
i1Java
2SQL
3Python
4JavaScript
5TypeScript
6C#
7Go
8Bash
9C/C++
10Unix Shell