Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
110,364Postings7,871 last week
4,679Employers593 last week
2,307Analysedwk of 27 Sep
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 110,364 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 7,871 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 | +2pp | 46 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | +2pp | 44 | ||
| 3 | 8 | ▲1 | 3 | AI & LLM Applications | +4pp | 15 | ||
| 4 | 4 | ▼2 | 1 | Backend Development | −2pp | 46 | ||
| 5 | 3 | ▲1 | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 17 | ||
| 6 | 5 | ▼1 | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | −2pp | 34 | ||
| 7 | 7 | – | 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 | – | 14 | ||
| 11 | 11 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 12 | 12 | – | 9 | Frontend Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | – | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 14 | ▲1 | 13 | Data Analytics & BI | – | 0 | ||
| 15 | 15 | ▼1 | 11 | Data Science & ML | – | 0 |
Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season
Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development1,367
Enterprise Platforms1,241
Fullstack Development1,179
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,415
Hyderabad1,100
Delhi NCR1,088
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+11.6pp
Hibernate+0.5pp
JEE+0.5pp
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+11.3pp
TypeScript+10.4pp
SQL+5.6pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+9.9pp
gRPC+0.3pp
OpenAPI/Swagger+0.3pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+8.1pp
Angular+6.6pp
jQuery-0.3pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+7.0pp
Zustand+0.1pp
React Hooks-0.1pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+2.8pp
Semantic Kernel+2.8pp
LlamaIndex+2.7pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+2.8pp
pgvector+2.7pp
Milvus+2.6pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+1.3pp
Databricks+0.6pp
Delta Lake0.0pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Terraform+1.2pp
Bicep+0.8pp
CloudFormation+0.5pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Grafana+1.2pp
Prometheus+0.9pp
Datadog+0.9pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure+1.1pp
GCP-0.3pp
AWS-0.9pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+1.1pp
Amazon Kinesis+0.4pp
Kafka+0.3pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.8pp
Docker+0.7pp
Kubernetes+0.6pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.8pp
Amazon API Gateway0.0pp
Amazon ECS-0.1pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.8pp
CloudFormation+0.5pp
CloudWatch+0.2pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.8pp
Bicep+0.8pp
Azure API Management+0.2pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.8pp
SageMaker+0.2pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.2pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.8pp
OpenAI API+0.6pp
Anthropic Claude+0.5pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cassandra+0.6pp
Redis+0.4pp
Memcached+0.2pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
JUnit+0.6pp
Mockito+0.4pp
Cucumber+0.1pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.4pp
Cypress0.0pp
Selenium-0.1pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.4pp
CodePipeline-0.1pp
SonarQube-0.2pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Kinesis+0.4pp
EMR+0.1pp
Redshift0.0pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Ab Initio+0.3pp
Hive+0.2pp
Hadoop+0.1pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Node.js+0.2pp
.NET+0.2pp
Ruby on Rails0.0pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap0.0pp
Sass/SCSS-0.6pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
TensorFlow0.0pp
PyTorch0.0pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MLflow0.0pp
NumPy-0.3pp
Scikit-learn-0.4pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Tableau-0.1pp
Power BI-0.2pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon RDS-0.2pp
Oracle Database-0.3pp
Amazon Aurora-0.3pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture5,817
Walmart166
Amazon60
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++