Last Updated 26 Sept 2026, 7:21 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
108,671Postings2,103 last week
4,647Employers541 last week
7,522Analysedthis week

This Week in Indian Tech Hiring

Ingrid has analysed 108,671 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,103 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 rankPeakRoleΔ shareTop-5 wksTrend
11–1Enterprise Platforms
22.8%
−1pp45
22▲12Fullstack Development
13.4%
+1pp43
33▼11Backend Development
13.1%
–45
44▲13Systems & Embedded Engineering
9.5%
+1pp34
57▼14AI & LLM Applications
8.5%
–14
69–2DevOps & Platform Engineering
7.3%
–16
75–3Generalist Software Engineer
5.8%
–14
810–7Data Engineering
5.1%
–0
98–9Domain-Specific Development
4.5%
–0
106–2QA & Testing
4.2%
–14
1111–11Mobile Development
2.1%
–0
1212–9Frontend Development
1.5%
–0
1313–13Security Engineering
1.3%
–0
1414–11Data Science & ML
0.5%
–0
1515–13Data Analytics & BI
0.3%
–0

Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season

Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development1,344
Fullstack Development1,139
Enterprise Platforms1,136
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,302
Delhi NCR1,045
Hyderabad1,039
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+5.1pp
Java+3.5pp
TypeScript+1.9pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Kubernetes+4.0pp
Docker+3.0pp
EKS+2.0pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS+3.9pp
Azure+1.2pp
GCP-0.2pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+2.6pp
Hibernate+0.9pp
Spring MVC+0.4pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Terraform+2.4pp
Ansible+1.0pp
Bicep+0.5pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Kafka+2.2pp
RabbitMQ+0.8pp
Flink+0.4pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Grafana+2.0pp
Prometheus+1.4pp
Splunk+0.6pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+2.0pp
Amazon ECS+0.2pp
Amazon API Gateway+0.1pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Redis+1.7pp
Cassandra+1.0pp
DynamoDB+0.4pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
JUnit+1.4pp
Mockito+0.9pp
Jest+0.5pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenAI API+1.4pp
Anthropic Claude+1.2pp
Azure OpenAI+1.1pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangGraph+1.2pp
LangChain+0.8pp
LangChain Agents+0.5pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+1.1pp
gRPC+0.8pp
OpenAPI/Swagger+0.3pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+1.1pp
Bitbucket+0.7pp
GitHub Actions+0.6pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+1.1pp
Vertex AI+0.6pp
Bicep+0.5pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PostgreSQL+1.0pp
Oracle Database+1.0pp
Amazon RDS+0.7pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+1.0pp
CloudWatch+0.6pp
IAM+0.3pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+1.0pp
Databricks+1.0pp
Redshift+0.2pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+1.0pp
Vertex AI+0.6pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.3pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+0.7pp
Zustand+0.2pp
Redux Toolkit+0.1pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon RDS+0.7pp
DynamoDB+0.4pp
Amazon Kinesis+0.3pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Node.js+0.6pp
FastAPI+0.2pp
ASP.NET MVC+0.1pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.5pp
Selenium+0.4pp
Cypress+0.1pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Ab Initio+0.5pp
Airflow+0.3pp
EMR+0.3pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+0.5pp
Qdrant+0.5pp
ChromaDB+0.4pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap+0.4pp
MUI-0.1pp
Sass/SCSS-0.4pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch+0.1pp
TensorFlow-0.1pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MLflow+0.1pp
Pandas-0.3pp
NumPy-0.4pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js-0.1pp
jQuery-0.2pp
NgRx-0.5pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI-0.1pp
Tableau-0.1pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture332
YASH Technologies64
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
6Go
7C#
8Bash
9Unix Shell
10C/C++