Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
97,938Postings2,794 last week
4,520Employers554 last week
2,962Analysedwk of 16 Aug
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 97,938 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,794 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 | −7pp | 40 | ||
| 2 | 3 | – | 2 | Fullstack Development | +2pp | 38 | ||
| 3 | 6 | ▲1 | 3 | AI & LLM Applications | +3pp | 8 | ||
| 4 | 2 | ▼1 | 1 | Backend Development | +2pp | 40 | ||
| 5 | 4 | ▲1 | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | +1pp | 30 | ||
| 6 | 8 | ▲1 | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | +1pp | 16 | ||
| 7 | 5 | ▼2 | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −2pp | 14 | ||
| 8 | 11 | ▲1 | 7 | Data Engineering | +1pp | 0 | ||
| 9 | 10 | ▲1 | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | +1pp | 0 | ||
| 10 | 9 | ▼2 | 2 | QA & Testing | −1pp | 14 | ||
| 11 | 7 | ▲1 | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 12 | 12 | ▼1 | 9 | Frontend Development | – | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | – | 13 | Security Engineering | +1pp | 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 Development1,249
Enterprise Platforms1,043
Fullstack Development1,034
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore4,865
Delhi NCR972
Hyderabad914
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+13.2pp
TypeScript+13.2pp
JavaScript+8.9pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+12.5pp
Angular+9.8pp
RxJS0.0pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+12.5pp
WebSockets+0.1pp
OpenAPI/Swagger-0.1pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+9.8pp
Redux Toolkit+0.3pp
React Hooks+0.1pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+8.4pp
Tomcat-0.4pp
JPA-0.7pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+3.1pp
Semantic Kernel+2.2pp
LlamaIndex+1.8pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
pgvector+1.8pp
Milvus+1.7pp
Weaviate+1.6pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
FastAPI+0.7pp
Flask0.0pp
Node.js-0.1pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.7pp
Bicep+0.6pp
Vertex AI+0.2pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.7pp
OpenAI API+0.6pp
Anthropic Claude+0.5pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+0.6pp
CDK-0.2pp
Chef-0.3pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+0.6pp
Flink+0.2pp
Event Hubs+0.1pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.4pp
Cypress-0.2pp
Postman-0.3pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SageMaker+0.3pp
CodePipeline+0.1pp
Amazon Bedrock-0.1pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spark SQL+0.3pp
EMR+0.2pp
Azure Data Factory+0.1pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+0.3pp
Redshift+0.1pp
Azure Synapse+0.1pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SageMaker+0.3pp
Vertex AI+0.2pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.2pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EMR+0.2pp
Redshift+0.1pp
AWS Glue0.0pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cucumber+0.1pp
Karma0.0pp
NUnit-0.1pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
CodePipeline+0.1pp
GitLab CI/CD-0.2pp
Bitbucket-0.3pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenTelemetry+0.1pp
Dynatrace-0.1pp
New Relic-0.2pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Kubeflow+0.1pp
NumPy0.0pp
MLflow0.0pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Neo4j0.0pp
Memcached-0.1pp
Redis-0.2pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Tailwind CSS0.0pp
Bootstrap-0.4pp
Sass/SCSS-0.7pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI0.0pp
Tableau-0.1pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
IBM Db2-0.1pp
Amazon Aurora-0.5pp
Amazon RDS-1.0pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EC2-0.2pp
Amazon ECS-0.2pp
S3-0.3pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenShift-0.3pp
Helm-0.6pp
EKS-0.8pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch-0.4pp
TensorFlow-0.5pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GCP-1.6pp
Azure-1.7pp
AWS-6.1pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture633
Amazon276
Mastercard63
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++