Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
102,959Postings3,187 last week
4,569Employers522 last week
5,786Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 102,959 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 3,187 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 | 42 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | −1pp | 40 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ▼1 | 1 | Backend Development | −2pp | 42 | ||
| 4 | 7 | ▲1 | 4 | AI & LLM Applications | +3pp | 10 | ||
| 5 | 5 | ▼1 | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | +1pp | 32 | ||
| 6 | 4 | ▲1 | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 16 | ||
| 7 | 6 | ▼1 | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −1pp | 14 | ||
| 8 | 10 | ▲1 | 7 | Data Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 9 | 9 | ▲1 | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | – | 0 | ||
| 10 | 8 | ▼2 | 2 | QA & Testing | −2pp | 14 | ||
| 11 | 12 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 12 | 11 | – | 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 Development1,293
Enterprise Platforms1,081
Fullstack Development1,076
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,111
Delhi NCR988
Hyderabad965
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+9.5pp
TypeScript+4.6pp
C#+1.4pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+4.3pp
Angular+2.5pp
jQuery-0.1pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+4.3pp
WebSockets+0.3pp
OpenAPI/Swagger-0.4pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+2.5pp
Tomcat0.0pp
Spring MVC-0.8pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+2.5pp
LangGraph+2.0pp
Semantic Kernel+1.6pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+2.4pp
Redux Toolkit0.0pp
Redux Saga0.0pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenAI API+1.3pp
Anthropic Claude+1.0pp
Azure OpenAI+1.0pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+1.2pp
pgvector+1.1pp
Milvus+1.0pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Redis+1.1pp
Memcached+0.2pp
Neo4j0.0pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
FastAPI+1.1pp
Node.js+0.9pp
NestJS+0.1pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+1.0pp
Vertex AI+0.5pp
Bicep+0.5pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure+0.7pp
GCP-0.2pp
AWS-1.3pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.7pp
SageMaker+0.5pp
CloudWatch0.0pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.7pp
SageMaker+0.5pp
Vertex AI+0.5pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Terraform+0.5pp
Bicep+0.5pp
Pulumi+0.1pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cucumber+0.3pp
Mocha+0.1pp
TestNG+0.1pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spark SQL+0.3pp
Hive+0.2pp
Airflow+0.1pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.2pp
Selenium-0.2pp
Postman-0.4pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.2pp
Istio-0.2pp
Helm-0.5pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.2pp
SVN0.0pp
Harness-0.1pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenTelemetry+0.2pp
Prometheus0.0pp
CloudWatch0.0pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.2pp
Amazon ECS+0.1pp
Lambda-0.1pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Flink+0.2pp
Kafka Streams+0.2pp
Pulsar+0.1pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Databricks+0.2pp
Azure Synapse+0.2pp
Delta Lake+0.1pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Redshift+0.1pp
Amazon Kinesis-0.1pp
AWS Glue-0.2pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch+0.1pp
TensorFlow-0.1pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI0.0pp
Tableau-0.2pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
IBM Db2-0.1pp
PostgreSQL-0.3pp
Amazon Aurora-0.4pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap-0.1pp
Tailwind CSS-0.1pp
Sass/SCSS-0.4pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
NumPy-0.1pp
Pandas-0.2pp
MLflow-0.2pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture1,691
JPMorganChase57
Deloitte40
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++