Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
65,265Postings2,231 last week
3,277Employers452 last week
1,739Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Every figure on this page comes from 65,265 real Indian software job postings, collected and classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,231 new postings entered the data this week.
Enterprise Platforms leads demand among software roles, with around a third 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 | 2 | – | 1 | Enterprise Platforms | +5pp | 24 | ||
| 2 | 3 | – | 1 | Backend Development | −4pp | 24 | ||
| 3 | 1 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | +2pp | 24 | ||
| 4 | 7 | ▲3 | 4 | AI & LLM Applications | +2pp | 2 | ||
| 5 | 4 | ▼2 | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −3pp | 11 | ||
| 6 | 8 | ▼1 | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | – | 21 | ||
| 7 | 9 | ▼1 | 5 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 9 | ||
| 8 | 5 | – | 5 | QA & Testing | −1pp | 5 | ||
| 9 | 11 | – | 7 | Data Engineering | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 10 | 10 | – | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | – | 0 | ||
| 11 | 6 | – | 10 | Frontend Development | – | 0 | ||
| 12 | 12 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | ▲1 | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 15 | ▼1 | 13 | Data Analytics & BI | – | 0 | ||
| 15 | 14 | – | 14 | Data Science & ML | – | 0 |
Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season
Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development834
Fullstack Development669
Enterprise Platforms647
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore2,568
Delhi NCR778
Hyderabad723
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+6.0pp
Angular+3.4pp
RxJS+0.2pp
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
TypeScript+5.4pp
Python+4.7pp
JavaScript+2.0pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+5.4pp
SOAP+1.3pp
WebSockets+0.3pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+3.6pp
React Context API+0.5pp
React Hooks+0.1pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+0.8pp
JSP+0.1pp
Tomcat-0.3pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangGraph+0.7pp
MCP+0.7pp
LangChain+0.4pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+0.6pp
CDK0.0pp
Puppet-0.1pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+0.6pp
Vertex AI+0.4pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.2pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SageMaker+0.4pp
Amazon Bedrock+0.3pp
CodePipeline+0.1pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+0.4pp
Event Hubs+0.1pp
Spark Streaming+0.1pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Databricks+0.4pp
BigQuery+0.1pp
Redshift+0.1pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SageMaker+0.4pp
Vertex AI+0.4pp
Amazon Bedrock+0.3pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pinecone+0.4pp
Weaviate+0.3pp
pgvector+0.3pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Sass/SCSS+0.3pp
Less+0.3pp
MUI+0.1pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenAI API+0.3pp
Anthropic Claude+0.3pp
Cohere+0.3pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch+0.3pp
Keras+0.3pp
TensorFlow-0.2pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pandas+0.3pp
NumPy+0.3pp
Scikit-learn+0.1pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Node.js+0.2pp
Express.js+0.2pp
FastAPI+0.1pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OCI+0.2pp
GCP-1.1pp
AWS-2.5pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PostgreSQL+0.1pp
Amazon Aurora-0.3pp
IBM Db2-0.4pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Aerospike+0.1pp
Couchbase0.0pp
Neo4j-0.1pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
xUnit+0.1pp
Cucumber-0.1pp
Karma-0.3pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
CircleCI+0.1pp
CodePipeline+0.1pp
TeamCity0.0pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS Glue+0.1pp
Redshift+0.1pp
SQS0.0pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS Glue+0.1pp
Airflow0.0pp
Azure Data Factory0.0pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Istio0.0pp
Helm-0.3pp
OpenShift-0.7pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AppDynamics0.0pp
Kibana-0.2pp
ELK Stack-0.3pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon ALB0.0pp
S3-0.1pp
Lambda-0.2pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI0.0pp
Tableau-0.1pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Postman-0.1pp
Cypress-0.6pp
Playwright-0.6pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture927
Scout Inc.115
JPMorganChase53
Skill Top 10s — the most-demanded software skills in Indian job postings
Languages
Programming Languages
i1Java
2SQL
3Python
4JavaScript
5TypeScript
6C#
7Go
8Bash
9C/C++
10Unix Shell