Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
107,175Postings2,253 last week
4,630Employers547 last week
2,337Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 107,175 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,253 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 | +3pp | 43 | ||
| 3 | 7 | ▲1 | 3 | AI & LLM Applications | +3pp | 14 | ||
| 4 | 3 | ▼2 | 1 | Backend Development | −2pp | 45 | ||
| 5 | 4 | – | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | −1pp | 34 | ||
| 6 | 8 | – | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | −1pp | 16 | ||
| 7 | 5 | – | 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 | −1pp | 14 | ||
| 11 | 12 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 12 | 11 | – | 9 | Frontend Development | −1pp | 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 Development1,350
Enterprise Platforms1,174
Fullstack Development1,151
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,333
Delhi NCR1,061
Hyderabad1,057
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+13.8pp
gRPC+0.2pp
OpenAPI/Swagger+0.1pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+13.6pp
Hibernate+0.3pp
JEE+0.3pp
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+13.0pp
TypeScript+12.9pp
SQL+8.9pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+12.5pp
Angular+9.9pp
jQuery-0.5pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+10.7pp
Zustand+0.1pp
Redux Toolkit-0.1pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+1.8pp
Milvus+1.6pp
pgvector+1.5pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LlamaIndex+1.7pp
Semantic Kernel+1.7pp
LangChain+1.3pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+1.6pp
Databricks+0.3pp
Redshift0.0pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+1.2pp
Terraform+0.9pp
Ansible+0.3pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+1.2pp
Azure OpenAI+1.0pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.4pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+1.2pp
Flink+0.1pp
Amazon Kinesis+0.1pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
.NET+1.0pp
NestJS0.0pp
Node.js-0.1pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+1.0pp
OpenShift+0.1pp
Istio-0.1pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+1.0pp
Amazon ECS0.0pp
Lambda-0.1pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+1.0pp
OpenAI API+0.7pp
Anthropic Claude+0.7pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Grafana+0.8pp
Prometheus+0.6pp
ELK Stack+0.3pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.6pp
Bitbucket+0.2pp
Spinnaker+0.1pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.6pp
CloudWatch+0.1pp
SageMaker+0.1pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.6pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.4pp
Vertex AI+0.2pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cassandra+0.3pp
Redis+0.1pp
Memcached0.0pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
JUnit+0.3pp
Mockito+0.3pp
Cucumber+0.2pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.3pp
Selenium0.0pp
Cypress0.0pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Ab Initio+0.3pp
Informatica+0.2pp
Spark SQL+0.2pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap+0.1pp
MUI-0.2pp
Sass/SCSS-0.6pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Kinesis+0.1pp
AWS Glue+0.1pp
EMR+0.1pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon RDS0.0pp
IBM Db2-0.1pp
Amazon Aurora-0.4pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Tableau-0.1pp
Power BI-0.2pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch-0.1pp
TensorFlow-0.2pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MLflow-0.1pp
Pandas-0.5pp
NumPy-0.5pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS-1.3pp
Azure-1.8pp
GCP-2.4pp
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++