Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
87,893Postings2,298 last week
4,404Employers558 last week
291Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 87,893 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,298 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 | 4 | – | 1 | Enterprise Platforms | −8pp | 38 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ▲1 | 1 | Backend Development | +3pp | 38 | ||
| 3 | 1 | ▼1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | +2pp | 36 | ||
| 4 | 5 | ▲2 | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | +3pp | 28 | ||
| 5 | 6 | ▼1 | 4 | AI & LLM Applications | −1pp | 6 | ||
| 6 | 3 | ▼1 | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −1pp | 14 | ||
| 7 | 9 | – | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | +1pp | 16 | ||
| 8 | 7 | – | 2 | QA & Testing | – | 14 | ||
| 9 | 12 | – | 7 | Data Engineering | +1pp | 0 | ||
| 10 | 10 | – | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | +1pp | 0 | ||
| 11 | 8 | ▲1 | 11 | Mobile Development | +1pp | 0 | ||
| 12 | 11 | ▼1 | 9 | Frontend Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | – | 13 | Security Engineering | +1pp | 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 Development1,194
Fullstack Development976
Enterprise Platforms895
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore4,695
Delhi NCR900
Hyderabad831
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+4.0pp
TypeScript+2.8pp
Go+1.0pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+2.0pp
LangGraph+1.3pp
CrewAI+0.8pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+1.6pp
Redux Toolkit+0.6pp
React Hooks+0.6pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS+1.3pp
GCP-0.4pp
Azure-1.3pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+1.2pp
gRPC+0.5pp
SOAP+0.2pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
FastAPI+1.1pp
Node.js+0.9pp
Django+0.3pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+1.0pp
Angular Material+0.2pp
RxJS+0.1pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bitbucket+0.9pp
GitLab CI/CD+0.2pp
Argo CD+0.2pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenAI API+0.9pp
Anthropic Claude+0.8pp
Azure OpenAI+0.4pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PostgreSQL+0.8pp
Teradata0.0pp
Amazon Aurora-0.1pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PySpark+0.6pp
EMR+0.3pp
Spark SQL+0.3pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+0.6pp
Delta Lake+0.2pp
Redshift+0.1pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
pgvector+0.6pp
Milvus+0.4pp
ChromaDB+0.3pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.5pp
Postman+0.2pp
Cypress0.0pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Event Hubs+0.5pp
Azure OpenAI+0.4pp
Entra ID+0.4pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Flink+0.5pp
Event Hubs+0.5pp
MSK+0.2pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MongoDB+0.4pp
DynamoDB+0.4pp
Neo4j+0.2pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
DynamoDB+0.4pp
EMR+0.3pp
AWS Glue+0.2pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MLflow+0.4pp
Pandas+0.2pp
Kubeflow+0.2pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Jest+0.3pp
Mockito+0.3pp
pytest+0.3pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI+0.3pp
Tableau0.0pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure AI Foundry+0.3pp
Vertex AI+0.2pp
SageMaker+0.1pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Tailwind CSS+0.2pp
Styled Components+0.1pp
Less-0.1pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
CDK+0.2pp
Bicep+0.2pp
Chef0.0pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
New Relic+0.2pp
OpenTelemetry0.0pp
Kibana0.0pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
CDK+0.2pp
SageMaker+0.1pp
Amazon Bedrock0.0pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
JPA+0.1pp
Servlets-0.1pp
JSP-0.1pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenShift+0.1pp
Docker-0.1pp
Istio-0.2pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch+0.1pp
Keras+0.1pp
TensorFlow-0.1pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon API Gateway-0.1pp
Amazon ECS-0.2pp
S3-0.3pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture359
Scout Inc.101
EPAM Systems75
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++