Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
104,943Postings2,353 last week
4,602Employers566 last week
470Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 104,943 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,353 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 | – | 44 | ||
| 2 | 3 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | +3pp | 42 | ||
| 3 | 7 | ▲1 | 3 | AI & LLM Applications | +5pp | 13 | ||
| 4 | 5 | ▼2 | 1 | Backend Development | −3pp | 44 | ||
| 5 | 4 | – | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | – | 33 | ||
| 6 | 2 | – | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 16 | ||
| 7 | 6 | – | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −1pp | 14 | ||
| 8 | 10 | – | 7 | Data Engineering | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 9 | 9 | – | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 10 | 8 | – | 2 | QA & Testing | −1pp | 14 | ||
| 11 | 12 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 12 | 11 | – | 9 | Frontend Development | – | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | – | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 15 | – | 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 Development1,331
Enterprise Platforms1,176
Fullstack Development1,134
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,266
Delhi NCR1,057
Hyderabad1,050
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+15.1pp
TypeScript+13.3pp
JavaScript+8.5pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+14.4pp
Azure API Management-0.2pp
gRPC-0.3pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+13.1pp
Angular+9.7pp
NgRx-0.3pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+12.4pp
Tomcat+0.3pp
JEE-0.1pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+10.7pp
Zustand+0.1pp
Redux Toolkit0.0pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+2.0pp
Milvus+1.7pp
pgvector+1.6pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Semantic Kernel+1.9pp
LlamaIndex+1.7pp
LangChain+1.4pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+1.3pp
Terraform+0.2pp
Chef0.0pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+1.3pp
Azure OpenAI+0.9pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.5pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+1.3pp
Spark Streaming+0.1pp
Kafka Streams+0.1pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+1.1pp
Databricks+0.3pp
Delta Lake-0.1pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.9pp
SageMaker+0.2pp
CloudWatch-0.2pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.9pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.5pp
SageMaker+0.2pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.9pp
OpenAI API+0.8pp
Anthropic Claude+0.8pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.7pp
Istio0.0pp
OpenShift-0.2pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.7pp
Amazon ECS-0.1pp
Amazon API Gateway-0.3pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.6pp
Spinnaker0.0pp
CodePipeline-0.2pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Grafana+0.6pp
Prometheus+0.6pp
Splunk+0.6pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cucumber+0.3pp
Mocha+0.2pp
TestNG+0.1pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Ab Initio+0.3pp
Informatica+0.2pp
Spark SQL+0.2pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.2pp
Selenium-0.1pp
Cypress-0.2pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
.NET+0.1pp
NestJS+0.1pp
Ruby on Rails-0.3pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch+0.1pp
TensorFlow-0.1pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cassandra0.0pp
Memcached-0.1pp
Neo4j-0.1pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap0.0pp
MUI-0.2pp
Sass/SCSS-0.7pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MSK0.0pp
Amazon Kinesis-0.1pp
Redshift-0.1pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI-0.2pp
Tableau-0.3pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MLflow-0.2pp
Pandas-0.3pp
NumPy-0.3pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
IBM Db2-0.3pp
Amazon RDS-0.5pp
Amazon Aurora-0.7pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GCP-2.2pp
Azure-2.7pp
AWS-4.3pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture299
Amazon183
JPMorganChase73
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++