Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
110,755Postings2,269 last week
4,685Employers553 last week
475Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 110,755 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,269 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 | – | 47 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | +2pp | 45 | ||
| 3 | 7 | ▲1 | 3 | AI & LLM Applications | +5pp | 16 | ||
| 4 | 4 | ▼2 | 1 | Backend Development | −3pp | 47 | ||
| 5 | 3 | – | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | −1pp | 35 | ||
| 6 | 5 | – | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 17 | ||
| 7 | 9 | – | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −1pp | 14 | ||
| 8 | 11 | – | 7 | Data Engineering | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 9 | 8 | – | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 10 | 6 | – | 2 | QA & Testing | – | 14 | ||
| 11 | 10 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 12 | 12 | – | 9 | Frontend Development | – | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | – | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 15 | ▲1 | 13 | Data Analytics & BI | – | 0 | ||
| 15 | 14 | ▼1 | 11 | Data Science & ML | – | 0 |
Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season
Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development1,393
Enterprise Platforms1,256
Fullstack Development1,206
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,510
Hyderabad1,125
Delhi NCR1,108
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+12.8pp
TypeScript+10.6pp
SQL+5.6pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+9.9pp
Amazon API Gateway+0.2pp
OpenAPI/Swagger+0.1pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+9.8pp
JEE+0.6pp
Hibernate+0.3pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+8.0pp
Angular+7.0pp
jQuery-0.2pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+7.4pp
React Hooks+0.2pp
Zustand+0.1pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Kubernetes+3.7pp
Docker+3.5pp
EKS+1.4pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+2.8pp
Semantic Kernel+2.8pp
LlamaIndex+2.7pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+2.7pp
pgvector+2.7pp
Milvus+2.7pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Terraform+2.4pp
CloudFormation+0.8pp
Bicep+0.6pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure+1.9pp
AWS+0.4pp
GCP+0.2pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Grafana+1.8pp
Datadog+1.2pp
Prometheus+1.1pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+1.4pp
Amazon API Gateway+0.2pp
VPC0.0pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+1.1pp
Databricks+0.4pp
Delta Lake+0.2pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+1.0pp
Kafka+0.6pp
Amazon Kinesis+0.5pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
CloudFormation+0.8pp
Amazon Bedrock+0.8pp
SageMaker+0.4pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.8pp
SageMaker+0.4pp
Vertex AI+0.2pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
.NET+0.7pp
NestJS+0.1pp
Ruby on Rails0.0pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.7pp
Bicep+0.6pp
Entra ID+0.3pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.7pp
OpenAI API+0.5pp
Anthropic Claude+0.4pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cassandra+0.6pp
DynamoDB+0.3pp
Redis+0.2pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.6pp
Cypress+0.1pp
Selenium-0.1pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Kinesis+0.5pp
DynamoDB+0.3pp
Amazon RDS+0.2pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
JUnit+0.3pp
TestNG+0.2pp
NUnit+0.1pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.3pp
Bitbucket0.0pp
CodePipeline0.0pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Hive+0.3pp
Presto/Trino+0.2pp
EMR+0.2pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon RDS+0.2pp
Amazon Aurora0.0pp
Oracle Database-0.2pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MLflow+0.2pp
Scikit-learn-0.4pp
NumPy-0.4pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap+0.1pp
Sass/SCSS-0.7pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
TensorFlow+0.1pp
PyTorch+0.1pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI-0.3pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture252
Amazon158
Societe Generale57
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++