Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
99,703Postings2,948 last week
4,525Employers680 last week
3,882Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 99,703 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,948 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 | −5pp | 41 | ||
| 2 | 3 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | +1pp | 39 | ||
| 3 | 2 | ▼1 | 1 | Backend Development | – | 41 | ||
| 4 | 7 | ▲2 | 4 | AI & LLM Applications | +3pp | 9 | ||
| 5 | 5 | – | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | +2pp | 31 | ||
| 6 | 4 | ▲1 | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | +2pp | 16 | ||
| 7 | 6 | ▼3 | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −3pp | 14 | ||
| 8 | 11 | ▲1 | 7 | Data Engineering | +1pp | 0 | ||
| 9 | 9 | ▲1 | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | +1pp | 0 | ||
| 10 | 8 | ▼2 | 2 | QA & Testing | −1pp | 14 | ||
| 11 | 10 | ▲1 | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 12 | 12 | ▼1 | 9 | Frontend Development | – | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | – | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 14 | ▲1 | 11 | Data Science & ML | – | 0 | ||
| 15 | 15 | ▼1 | 13 | Data Analytics & BI | – | 0 |
Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season
Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development1,276
Fullstack Development1,062
Enterprise Platforms1,057
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,054
Delhi NCR987
Hyderabad950
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+8.8pp
TypeScript+3.6pp
JavaScript+1.0pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+3.4pp
WebSockets+0.2pp
OpenAPI/Swagger-0.2pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+3.1pp
Angular+0.7pp
jQuery-0.1pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+2.8pp
LangGraph+2.2pp
Semantic Kernel+1.4pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenAI API+1.4pp
Anthropic Claude+1.2pp
Azure OpenAI+1.1pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+1.2pp
Redux Toolkit+0.3pp
React Hooks+0.2pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
FastAPI+1.2pp
Flask0.0pp
NestJS0.0pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Redis+1.1pp
Cassandra+0.1pp
Memcached+0.1pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+1.1pp
Vertex AI+0.4pp
Azure Data Factory+0.2pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+0.9pp
pgvector+0.8pp
Milvus+0.7pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.7pp
SageMaker+0.4pp
CodePipeline+0.2pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.7pp
SageMaker+0.4pp
Vertex AI+0.4pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Flink+0.6pp
MSK+0.2pp
Pulsar+0.2pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+0.5pp
Tomcat-0.2pp
JPA-0.6pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.5pp
Cypress-0.3pp
Selenium-0.4pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Prometheus+0.5pp
OpenTelemetry+0.1pp
Grafana-0.1pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spark SQL+0.4pp
Hive+0.2pp
Azure Data Factory+0.2pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cucumber+0.2pp
Mocha+0.1pp
Mockito-0.1pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Terraform+0.2pp
Bicep+0.2pp
Pulumi+0.1pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
CodePipeline+0.2pp
GitLab CI/CD0.0pp
Argo CD0.0pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MSK+0.2pp
Redshift+0.1pp
Amazon Kinesis-0.1pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure Synapse+0.2pp
Delta Lake+0.1pp
Redshift+0.1pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch+0.1pp
TensorFlow0.0pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
IBM Db20.0pp
PostgreSQL-0.6pp
Amazon Aurora-0.6pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI0.0pp
Tableau-0.2pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
NumPy0.0pp
MLflow0.0pp
Kubeflow0.0pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap-0.1pp
Tailwind CSS-0.1pp
Sass/SCSS-0.5pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon ECS-0.1pp
EKS-0.2pp
Lambda-0.2pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS-0.2pp
Helm-0.2pp
Istio-0.2pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure-0.9pp
GCP-1.4pp
AWS-3.1pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture516
Amazon277
JPMorganChase61
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++