Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
94,636Postings6,287 last week
4,448Employers581 last week
1,665Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 94,636 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 6,287 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 a third 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 | 39 | ||
| 2 | 3 | – | 2 | Fullstack Development | +2pp | 37 | ||
| 3 | 6 | ▲2 | 3 | AI & LLM Applications | +2pp | 7 | ||
| 4 | 2 | ▼1 | 1 | Backend Development | – | 39 | ||
| 5 | 5 | ▲2 | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | +1pp | 29 | ||
| 6 | 4 | ▼2 | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −3pp | 14 | ||
| 7 | 9 | ▼1 | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 16 | ||
| 8 | 11 | ▲1 | 7 | Data Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 9 | 8 | ▼1 | 2 | QA & Testing | −1pp | 14 | ||
| 10 | 10 | – | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | – | 0 | ||
| 11 | 7 | ▲1 | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 12 | 12 | ▼1 | 9 | Frontend Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | – | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 15 | – | 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 Development1,219
Enterprise Platforms1,011
Fullstack Development1,005
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore4,784
Delhi NCR942
Hyderabad879
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
TypeScript+14.2pp
Python+12.9pp
JavaScript+9.4pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+13.4pp
WebSockets+0.1pp
OpenAPI/Swagger-0.1pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+13.3pp
Angular+10.3pp
jQuery-0.1pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+10.9pp
React Hooks+0.2pp
Redux Toolkit+0.1pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+9.1pp
Tomcat-0.5pp
JPA-0.7pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+2.9pp
Semantic Kernel+2.4pp
LlamaIndex+2.1pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
pgvector+2.3pp
Milvus+2.0pp
Weaviate+1.9pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Node.js+0.7pp
FastAPI+0.6pp
Django-0.2pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+0.7pp
CDK+0.1pp
Chef-0.1pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+0.7pp
Azure OpenAI+0.5pp
Event Hubs+0.2pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+0.7pp
Flink+0.2pp
Event Hubs+0.2pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+0.7pp
Redshift+0.1pp
Delta Lake0.0pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenAI API+0.6pp
Azure OpenAI+0.5pp
Anthropic Claude+0.4pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PySpark+0.3pp
EMR+0.2pp
AWS Glue+0.1pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cucumber+0.2pp
Karma-0.1pp
Jest-0.4pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.2pp
Postman-0.1pp
Selenium-0.3pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bitbucket+0.2pp
CodePipeline-0.1pp
Argo CD-0.3pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EMR+0.2pp
AWS Glue+0.1pp
Redshift+0.1pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure AI Foundry+0.2pp
SageMaker+0.1pp
Amazon Bedrock0.0pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Tailwind CSS+0.1pp
Styled Components+0.1pp
Bootstrap-0.4pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
CDK+0.1pp
SageMaker+0.1pp
Amazon Bedrock0.0pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Neo4j0.0pp
Memcached-0.2pp
Cassandra-0.4pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI0.0pp
Tableau0.0pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pandas0.0pp
MLflow0.0pp
Kubeflow0.0pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
IBM Db2-0.1pp
Amazon Aurora-0.6pp
Amazon RDS-1.0pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
New Relic-0.1pp
Kibana-0.1pp
OpenTelemetry-0.3pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenShift-0.2pp
Helm-0.6pp
EKS-1.4pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EC2-0.3pp
S3-0.4pp
VPC-0.4pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch-0.6pp
TensorFlow-0.8pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GCP-1.2pp
Azure-2.2pp
AWS-4.6pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture4,444
JioStar49
Deloitte44
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++