Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
103,563Postings5,939 last week
4,577Employers508 last week
759Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 103,563 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 5,939 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 | −3pp | 43 | ||
| 2 | 2 | – | 2 | Fullstack Development | +2pp | 41 | ||
| 3 | 7 | ▲1 | 3 | AI & LLM Applications | +5pp | 11 | ||
| 4 | 4 | ▼1 | 1 | Backend Development | −2pp | 43 | ||
| 5 | 5 | – | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | +1pp | 33 | ||
| 6 | 3 | – | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 16 | ||
| 7 | 6 | – | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | – | 14 | ||
| 8 | 10 | – | 7 | Data Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 9 | 9 | ▲1 | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | – | 0 | ||
| 10 | 8 | ▼1 | 2 | QA & Testing | −1pp | 14 | ||
| 11 | 12 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 12 | 11 | – | 9 | Frontend Development | −1pp | 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 Development1,314
Enterprise Platforms1,154
Fullstack Development1,112
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,211
Delhi NCR1,029
Hyderabad1,012
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+14.3pp
TypeScript+12.9pp
JavaScript+9.0pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+14.1pp
WebSockets-0.3pp
OpenAPI/Swagger-0.4pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+13.6pp
Angular+11.6pp
RxJS-0.2pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+11.9pp
Tomcat+0.1pp
Hibernate-0.9pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+10.5pp
Redux Toolkit-0.1pp
Zustand-0.1pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Semantic Kernel+1.9pp
LangChain+1.6pp
LlamaIndex+1.4pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+1.6pp
Milvus+1.4pp
pgvector+1.3pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+1.4pp
Chef-0.1pp
CDK-0.3pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+1.4pp
Azure OpenAI+1.1pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.5pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+1.2pp
MSK+0.1pp
Flink0.0pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+1.1pp
OpenAI API+0.7pp
Anthropic Claude+0.7pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.8pp
SageMaker+0.3pp
CodePipeline-0.1pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.8pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.5pp
SageMaker+0.3pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+0.6pp
Delta Lake-0.1pp
Redshift-0.1pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Prometheus+0.5pp
Splunk+0.2pp
Datadog+0.2pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch+0.4pp
TensorFlow+0.1pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.3pp
OpenShift-0.5pp
Helm-1.2pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.3pp
SVN-0.1pp
CodePipeline-0.1pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+0.3pp
Amazon ECS0.0pp
Lambda-0.4pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Ab Initio+0.3pp
Spark SQL+0.2pp
dbt+0.1pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cucumber+0.2pp
Mocha+0.2pp
xUnit0.0pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.2pp
Selenium-0.3pp
Cypress-0.4pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MSK+0.1pp
Amazon Kinesis-0.1pp
Redshift-0.1pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Memcached0.0pp
Neo4j-0.2pp
Redis-0.3pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
.NET0.0pp
NestJS0.0pp
FastAPI-0.2pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI0.0pp
Tableau-0.2pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
NumPy-0.1pp
Pandas-0.2pp
MLflow-0.3pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
IBM Db2-0.2pp
Amazon Aurora-0.7pp
Amazon RDS-1.1pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap-0.2pp
Sass/SCSS-0.3pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure-2.1pp
GCP-2.5pp
AWS-6.1pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture3,860
Virtusa270
EPAM Systems179
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++