Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
110,262Postings7,877 last week
4,675Employers594 last week
1,908Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 110,262 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 7,877 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 | +1pp | 46 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | +2pp | 44 | ||
| 3 | 8 | ▲1 | 3 | AI & LLM Applications | +4pp | 15 | ||
| 4 | 5 | ▼2 | 1 | Backend Development | −2pp | 46 | ||
| 5 | 4 | – | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | −2pp | 35 | ||
| 6 | 3 | – | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 16 | ||
| 7 | 7 | – | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | – | 14 | ||
| 8 | 10 | – | 7 | Data Engineering | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 9 | 9 | – | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 10 | 6 | – | 2 | QA & Testing | – | 14 | ||
| 11 | 11 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 12 | 12 | – | 9 | Frontend Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | – | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 14 | ▲1 | 13 | Data Analytics & BI | – | 0 | ||
| 15 | 15 | ▼1 | 11 | Data Science & ML | – | 0 |
Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season
Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development1,368
Enterprise Platforms1,241
Fullstack Development1,185
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,421
Hyderabad1,110
Delhi NCR1,089
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+11.2pp
Hibernate+0.6pp
JEE+0.5pp
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+11.0pp
TypeScript+10.2pp
SQL+5.3pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+9.6pp
gRPC+0.3pp
OpenAPI/Swagger+0.3pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+7.8pp
Angular+6.4pp
jQuery-0.3pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+6.8pp
Zustand+0.1pp
Next.js-0.1pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+2.7pp
Semantic Kernel+2.7pp
LlamaIndex+2.6pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+2.7pp
pgvector+2.6pp
Milvus+2.6pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Terraform+1.4pp
Bicep+0.7pp
CloudFormation+0.6pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Grafana+1.3pp
Prometheus+0.9pp
Datadog+0.9pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure+1.2pp
GCP-0.3pp
AWS-0.5pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+1.2pp
Databricks+0.6pp
Iceberg+0.1pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+1.1pp
Amazon Kinesis+0.4pp
Kafka+0.2pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Kubernetes+1.0pp
Docker+1.0pp
EKS+1.0pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+1.0pp
Amazon API Gateway+0.1pp
Amazon ECS-0.1pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.8pp
CloudFormation+0.6pp
CloudWatch+0.2pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.8pp
Bicep+0.7pp
Azure API Management+0.2pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.8pp
SageMaker+0.2pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.2pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.8pp
OpenAI API+0.6pp
Anthropic Claude+0.5pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cassandra+0.7pp
Redis+0.4pp
Memcached+0.2pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
JUnit+0.6pp
Mockito+0.4pp
Jest0.0pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.4pp
Cypress0.0pp
Selenium-0.1pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.4pp
CodePipeline+0.1pp
Bitbucket-0.1pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Kinesis+0.4pp
Amazon RDS+0.1pp
EMR+0.1pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
.NET+0.3pp
Node.js+0.2pp
Ruby on Rails0.0pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Hive+0.2pp
Ab Initio+0.2pp
Hadoop+0.1pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon RDS+0.1pp
Oracle Database-0.2pp
Amazon Aurora-0.3pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap+0.1pp
Sass/SCSS-0.6pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch0.0pp
TensorFlow-0.1pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MLflow0.0pp
NumPy-0.3pp
Scikit-learn-0.4pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Tableau-0.1pp
Power BI-0.2pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture5,817
Walmart166
Amazon60
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++