Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
108,009Postings2,240 last week
4,636Employers541 last week
5,542Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 108,009 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,240 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 | 45 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | +2pp | 43 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ▼1 | 1 | Backend Development | −1pp | 45 | ||
| 4 | 7 | – | 4 | AI & LLM Applications | +1pp | 14 | ||
| 5 | 4 | – | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | – | 34 | ||
| 6 | 8 | – | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 16 | ||
| 7 | 5 | – | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | – | 14 | ||
| 8 | 10 | – | 7 | Data Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 9 | 9 | – | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | – | 0 | ||
| 10 | 6 | – | 2 | QA & Testing | – | 14 | ||
| 11 | 12 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 12 | 11 | – | 9 | Frontend Development | – | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | – | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 14 | – | 11 | Data Science & ML | – | 0 | ||
| 15 | 15 | – | 13 | Data Analytics & BI | – | 0 |
Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season
Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development1,348
Enterprise Platforms1,150
Fullstack Development1,144
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,320
Delhi NCR1,050
Hyderabad1,049
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+8.2pp
TypeScript+5.9pp
Java+2.6pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+6.2pp
Hibernate+0.4pp
Tomcat+0.2pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+5.5pp
gRPC+0.6pp
OpenAPI/Swagger+0.2pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+4.4pp
Angular+2.5pp
jQuery-0.3pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+4.1pp
Zustand+0.1pp
Redux Toolkit0.0pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS+1.9pp
Azure-0.2pp
GCP-1.4pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Kubernetes+1.8pp
EKS+1.6pp
Docker+1.2pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Terraform+1.7pp
Ansible+0.7pp
Bicep+0.7pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Grafana+1.6pp
Prometheus+1.2pp
Splunk+0.6pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+1.6pp
Amazon ECS+0.1pp
Lambda0.0pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Redis+1.1pp
Cassandra+0.8pp
DynamoDB+0.2pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+1.1pp
Bicep+0.7pp
Vertex AI+0.5pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Kafka+1.1pp
RabbitMQ+0.4pp
Flink+0.3pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+1.1pp
Databricks+0.9pp
Delta Lake+0.1pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenAI API+1.1pp
Anthropic Claude+1.1pp
Azure OpenAI+1.1pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
JUnit+1.0pp
Mockito+0.6pp
Cucumber+0.4pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangGraph+1.0pp
LangChain+0.9pp
LlamaIndex+0.7pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.9pp
Bitbucket+0.5pp
Spinnaker+0.1pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.9pp
CloudWatch+0.4pp
IAM+0.2pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.9pp
Vertex AI+0.5pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.4pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+0.8pp
Milvus+0.6pp
Qdrant+0.5pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Oracle Database+0.4pp
Amazon RDS+0.4pp
IBM Db20.0pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.4pp
Selenium+0.2pp
Cypress0.0pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon RDS+0.4pp
DynamoDB+0.2pp
Amazon Kinesis+0.2pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Ab Initio+0.4pp
Spark SQL+0.3pp
Airflow+0.2pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap+0.3pp
MUI-0.2pp
Sass/SCSS-0.4pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Node.js+0.2pp
.NET+0.2pp
ASP.NET MVC0.0pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch0.0pp
TensorFlow-0.2pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MLflow0.0pp
Pandas-0.3pp
NumPy-0.4pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI-0.1pp
Tableau-0.1pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture462
YASH Technologies65
Cisco38
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++