Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
109,228Postings7,927 last week
4,659Employers599 last week
317Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 109,228 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 7,927 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 | +1pp | 46 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | +2pp | 44 | ||
| 3 | 8 | ▲1 | 3 | AI & LLM Applications | +4pp | 15 | ||
| 4 | 4 | ▼2 | 1 | Backend Development | −2pp | 46 | ||
| 5 | 5 | – | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | −2pp | 35 | ||
| 6 | 3 | – | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 16 | ||
| 7 | 7 | – | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | – | 14 | ||
| 8 | 10 | – | 7 | Data Engineering | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 9 | 9 | – | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 10 | 6 | – | 2 | QA & Testing | – | 14 | ||
| 11 | 11 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 12 | 12 | – | 9 | Frontend Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | – | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 14 | ▲1 | 13 | Data Analytics & BI | – | 0 | ||
| 15 | 15 | ▼1 | 11 | Data Science & ML | – | 0 |
Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season
Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development1,374
Enterprise Platforms1,246
Fullstack Development1,187
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,438
Hyderabad1,117
Delhi NCR1,091
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+10.5pp
TypeScript+9.6pp
Java+5.1pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+10.3pp
Hibernate+0.5pp
JEE+0.5pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+9.1pp
gRPC+0.4pp
OpenAPI/Swagger+0.3pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+7.2pp
Angular+5.8pp
jQuery-0.3pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+6.1pp
Zustand0.0pp
Next.js-0.1pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+2.7pp
pgvector+2.5pp
Milvus+2.5pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+2.6pp
LlamaIndex+2.6pp
Semantic Kernel+2.6pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Terraform+1.5pp
Bicep+0.7pp
CloudFormation+0.6pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Grafana+1.4pp
Datadog+1.0pp
Prometheus+0.9pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Kubernetes+1.3pp
Docker+1.3pp
EKS+1.2pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+1.2pp
Amazon API Gateway+0.2pp
Amazon ECS0.0pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+1.2pp
Databricks+0.5pp
Iceberg+0.1pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure+1.1pp
AWS-0.2pp
GCP-0.2pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+1.0pp
Amazon Kinesis+0.5pp
Kafka+0.3pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cassandra+0.8pp
Redis+0.6pp
Memcached+0.2pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.8pp
CloudFormation+0.6pp
CloudWatch+0.2pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.8pp
SageMaker+0.2pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.2pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.7pp
Bicep+0.7pp
Azure API Management+0.2pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.7pp
OpenAI API+0.6pp
Anthropic Claude+0.5pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
JUnit+0.6pp
Mockito+0.4pp
NUnit+0.1pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Kinesis+0.5pp
Amazon RDS+0.2pp
EMR+0.2pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
.NET+0.4pp
Node.js+0.1pp
NestJS0.0pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.4pp
Cypress0.0pp
Selenium-0.1pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.4pp
CodePipeline0.0pp
Bitbucket-0.1pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon RDS+0.2pp
Oracle Database-0.2pp
Amazon Aurora-0.2pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Hive+0.2pp
EMR+0.2pp
Ab Initio+0.2pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap+0.1pp
Sass/SCSS-0.6pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
TensorFlow0.0pp
PyTorch0.0pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MLflow0.0pp
NumPy-0.3pp
Scikit-learn-0.4pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI-0.2pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture5,849
Walmart166
Amazon60
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++