Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
84,922Postings2,551 last week
4,334Employers480 last week
676Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 84,922 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,551 new postings entered the data in the last complete week.
Enterprise Platforms leads demand among software roles, with around a third 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 | 2 | – | 1 | Enterprise Platforms | +12pp | 36 | ||
| 2 | 1 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | – | 34 | ||
| 3 | 5 | ▼1 | 1 | Backend Development | −5pp | 36 | ||
| 4 | 6 | ▲3 | 4 | AI & LLM Applications | +1pp | 5 | ||
| 5 | 3 | ▼1 | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −2pp | 14 | ||
| 6 | 7 | ▼1 | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | −1pp | 27 | ||
| 7 | 9 | ▼1 | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | −2pp | 15 | ||
| 8 | 4 | – | 2 | QA & Testing | – | 13 | ||
| 9 | 12 | – | 7 | Data Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 10 | 10 | – | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | – | 0 | ||
| 11 | 8 | – | 9 | Frontend Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 12 | 11 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | ▲1 | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 15 | ▼1 | 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 Development1,100
Fullstack Development905
Enterprise Platforms856
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore4,451
Delhi NCR851
Hyderabad775
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+7.0pp
SOAP+2.1pp
WebSockets+0.5pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+6.5pp
Angular+3.5pp
NgRx-0.2pp
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
TypeScript+6.3pp
Python+3.4pp
JavaScript+2.7pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+5.3pp
React Hooks+0.7pp
React Context API+0.7pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+1.6pp
JSP+0.2pp
Servlets0.0pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Node.js+1.1pp
NestJS+0.4pp
Express.js-0.2pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+1.1pp
LangGraph+0.7pp
Semantic Kernel+0.7pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+0.8pp
Chef0.0pp
CDK-0.1pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+0.8pp
Azure OpenAI+0.5pp
Event Hubs+0.4pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Anthropic Claude+0.8pp
OpenAI API+0.5pp
Azure OpenAI+0.5pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
pgvector+0.7pp
Weaviate+0.5pp
Milvus+0.5pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PostgreSQL+0.6pp
Amazon Aurora+0.1pp
IBM Db2-0.2pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+0.5pp
Event Hubs+0.4pp
SQS+0.1pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+0.5pp
Databricks+0.2pp
Redshift+0.2pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SageMaker+0.3pp
Amazon Bedrock+0.2pp
CDK-0.1pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SageMaker+0.3pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.3pp
Amazon Bedrock+0.2pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS Glue+0.2pp
Redshift+0.2pp
SQS+0.1pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS Glue+0.2pp
Airflow+0.1pp
Azure Data Factory0.0pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Keras+0.2pp
PyTorch-0.1pp
TensorFlow-0.2pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Aerospike+0.1pp
Memcached0.0pp
Couchbase0.0pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Styled Components+0.1pp
Sass/SCSS0.0pp
Tailwind CSS0.0pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Jest+0.1pp
Cucumber0.0pp
Mocha0.0pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.1pp
Git0.0pp
TeamCity0.0pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
New Relic+0.1pp
AppDynamics-0.2pp
Datadog-0.3pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI+0.1pp
Tableau-0.2pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pandas+0.1pp
MLflow-0.1pp
NumPy-0.2pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon ALB0.0pp
Lambda-0.1pp
EC2-0.2pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Postman-0.1pp
Cypress-0.3pp
Playwright-0.3pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenShift-0.8pp
Helm-1.1pp
EKS-1.2pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS-2.7pp
GCP-4.1pp
Azure-5.1pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture1,181
TCS (Tata Group)45
Amazon42
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++