Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
105,848Postings2,343 last week
4,615Employers563 last week
1,622Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 105,848 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,343 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 Development1,327
Enterprise Platforms1,174
Fullstack Development1,132
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,257
Delhi NCR1,056
Hyderabad1,044
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+15.0pp
TypeScript+13.7pp
JavaScript+8.9pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+14.6pp
Azure API Management-0.2pp
gRPC-0.3pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+13.4pp
Angular+10.0pp
RxJS-0.3pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+12.6pp
Tomcat+0.2pp
JEE-0.1pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+10.8pp
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+1.8pp
LangChain+1.3pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+1.3pp
Terraform0.0pp
Chef-0.1pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+1.3pp
Azure OpenAI+0.9pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.4pp
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+0.2pp
Delta Lake-0.1pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.9pp
OpenAI API+0.8pp
Anthropic Claude+0.8pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.8pp
SageMaker+0.2pp
CloudWatch-0.2pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.8pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.4pp
SageMaker+0.2pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.6pp
OpenShift-0.2pp
Helm-1.8pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Grafana+0.6pp
Prometheus+0.6pp
Splunk+0.6pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.6pp
Amazon ECS-0.1pp
Amazon API Gateway-0.3pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.5pp
Spinnaker0.0pp
CodePipeline-0.2pp
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
Cucumber+0.2pp
Mocha+0.2pp
TestNG+0.1pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.2pp
Selenium-0.1pp
Cypress-0.1pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
.NET+0.1pp
NestJS+0.1pp
Ruby on Rails-0.3pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap0.0pp
MUI-0.2pp
Sass/SCSS-0.6pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MSK0.0pp
Amazon Kinesis-0.1pp
Redshift-0.1pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch0.0pp
TensorFlow-0.2pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cassandra-0.1pp
Memcached-0.1pp
Neo4j-0.1pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI-0.2pp
Tableau-0.3pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
IBM Db2-0.3pp
Amazon RDS-0.5pp
Amazon Aurora-0.7pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MLflow-0.3pp
Pandas-0.4pp
NumPy-0.4pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GCP-2.3pp
Azure-3.0pp
AWS-4.5pp
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++