Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
87,196Postings2,171 last week
4,385Employers512 last week
1,597Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 87,196 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,171 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 | 2 | – | 1 | Enterprise Platforms | −1pp | 37 | ||
| 2 | 4 | – | 1 | Backend Development | – | 37 | ||
| 3 | 1 | – | 2 | Fullstack Development | – | 35 | ||
| 4 | 3 | ▲1 | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | – | 14 | ||
| 5 | 5 | ▲2 | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | +1pp | 27 | ||
| 6 | 7 | ▼2 | 4 | AI & LLM Applications | −2pp | 5 | ||
| 7 | 10 | ▼1 | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | −1pp | 16 | ||
| 8 | 6 | – | 2 | QA & Testing | – | 14 | ||
| 9 | 9 | ▲1 | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | +1pp | 0 | ||
| 10 | 12 | ▼1 | 7 | Data Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 11 | 8 | – | 9 | Frontend Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 12 | 11 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | ▲1 | 13 | Security Engineering | +1pp | 0 | ||
| 14 | 15 | ▼1 | 13 | Data Analytics & BI | – | 0 | ||
| 15 | 14 | – | 11 | Data Science & ML | – | 0 |
Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season
Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development1,140
Fullstack Development943
Enterprise Platforms879
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore4,581
Delhi NCR875
Hyderabad803
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS+2.4pp
GCP-1.1pp
Azure-2.0pp
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
TypeScript+2.3pp
Python+1.7pp
Go+0.3pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+1.3pp
LangGraph+1.0pp
CrewAI+0.8pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React Context API+1.2pp
React Hooks+0.8pp
React+0.7pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SOAP+1.2pp
GraphQL+0.9pp
Postman+0.5pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+0.9pp
Angular Material+0.2pp
jQuery0.0pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PostgreSQL+0.8pp
Amazon Aurora+0.1pp
IBM Db2-0.3pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Node.js+0.8pp
FastAPI+0.4pp
NestJS+0.4pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Anthropic Claude+0.8pp
OpenAI API+0.6pp
Gemini+0.3pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Redis+0.6pp
DynamoDB+0.4pp
Neo4j+0.2pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Event Hubs+0.6pp
Bicep+0.3pp
Entra ID+0.3pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Event Hubs+0.6pp
SQS+0.3pp
Amazon Kinesis+0.2pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
pgvector+0.6pp
ChromaDB+0.4pp
Milvus+0.2pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Postman+0.5pp
Playwright+0.2pp
Cypress-0.1pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Jest+0.4pp
pytest+0.2pp
Mocha-0.1pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
DynamoDB+0.4pp
SQS+0.3pp
Amazon Kinesis+0.2pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI+0.4pp
Tableau-0.1pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+0.3pp
CDK+0.1pp
Chef+0.1pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SageMaker+0.3pp
Amazon Bedrock+0.2pp
CDK+0.1pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+0.3pp
Delta Lake+0.2pp
Redshift+0.2pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SageMaker+0.3pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.3pp
Amazon Bedrock+0.2pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS Glue+0.2pp
EMR+0.2pp
Azure Data Factory+0.2pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Keras+0.2pp
PyTorch+0.1pp
TensorFlow-0.2pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Tailwind CSS+0.1pp
Less+0.1pp
Styled Components+0.1pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
JSP+0.1pp
JPA0.0pp
Servlets0.0pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
New Relic+0.1pp
Kibana+0.1pp
OpenTelemetry-0.1pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon ALB+0.1pp
Lambda0.0pp
Amazon ECS0.0pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pandas+0.1pp
MLflow+0.1pp
Kubeflow+0.1pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bitbucket0.0pp
Argo CD0.0pp
Git-0.1pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenShift-0.1pp
EKS-0.4pp
Docker-1.0pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture568
Amazon186
Scout Inc.85
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++