Last Updated 22 Sept 2026, 6:36 AM IST

Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded

The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.

The Daily Pulse — what the market did yesterday
106,480Postings2,277 last week
4,626Employers549 last week
353Analysedthis week

This Week in Indian Tech Hiring

Ingrid has analysed 106,480 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,277 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

OverallFresherΔ rankPeakRoleΔ shareTop-5 wksTrend
111Enterprise Platforms
27%
+2pp45
2212Fullstack Development
14.9%
+3pp43
3813AI & LLM Applications
12.6%
+3pp14
4321Backend Development
10.3%
3pp45
543Systems & Embedded Engineering
7.2%
1pp34
672DevOps & Platform Engineering
6.4%
1pp16
753Generalist Software Engineer
5.8%
14
8107Data Engineering
4.3%
1pp0
999Domain-Specific Development
3.5%
1pp0
1062QA & Testing
3.2%
1pp14
111211Mobile Development
1.7%
1pp0
12119Frontend Development
1.4%
1pp0
131313Security Engineering
1%
0
1414113Data Analytics & BI
0.4%
0
1515111Data Science & ML
0.4%
0

Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season

Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development1,351
Enterprise Platforms1,198
Fullstack Development1,153
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,348
Delhi NCR1,072
Hyderabad1,069
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+15.6pp
gRPC+0.1pp
OpenAPI/Swagger+0.1pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+15.1pp
JEE+0.3pp
Hibernate+0.2pp
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
TypeScript+14.4pp
Python+14.1pp
SQL+9.8pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+14.2pp
Angular+11.4pp
NgRx-0.5pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+12.0pp
Zustand+0.1pp
Redux Toolkit-0.1pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+2.0pp
Milvus+1.8pp
pgvector+1.7pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Semantic Kernel+1.9pp
LlamaIndex+1.8pp
LangChain+1.3pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+1.6pp
Databricks+0.3pp
Redshift0.0pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+1.3pp
Terraform+0.6pp
Ansible+0.1pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+1.3pp
Azure OpenAI+1.0pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.4pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+1.3pp
Amazon Kinesis+0.1pp
Spark Streaming+0.1pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+1.0pp
OpenAI API+0.6pp
Anthropic Claude+0.6pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
.NET+0.9pp
NestJS0.0pp
Ruby on Rails-0.2pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.9pp
OpenShift0.0pp
Helm-1.3pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Grafana+0.9pp
Prometheus+0.7pp
ELK Stack+0.5pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.9pp
Amazon ECS0.0pp
Lambda-0.2pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.6pp
CloudWatch+0.1pp
SageMaker+0.1pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.6pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.4pp
SageMaker+0.1pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.5pp
Bitbucket+0.1pp
Spinnaker+0.1pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.3pp
Selenium0.0pp
Cypress0.0pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Ab Initio+0.3pp
Informatica+0.2pp
Spark SQL+0.2pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
JUnit+0.2pp
Mockito+0.2pp
Cucumber+0.2pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cassandra+0.1pp
Memcached0.0pp
Neo4j0.0pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap+0.1pp
MUI-0.3pp
Sass/SCSS-0.6pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Kinesis+0.1pp
AWS Glue+0.1pp
EMR0.0pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
IBM Db2-0.1pp
Amazon RDS-0.2pp
Amazon Aurora-0.4pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch-0.1pp
TensorFlow-0.3pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI-0.2pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MLflow-0.2pp
Pandas-0.4pp
NumPy-0.5pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS-2.5pp
Azure-2.5pp
GCP-2.9pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture462
YASH Technologies65
Cisco38

Skill Top 10s — the most-demanded software skills in Indian job postings

Languages

Programming Languages

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1Java
2Python
3SQL
4JavaScript
5TypeScript
6C#
7Go
8Bash
9Unix Shell
10C/C++