Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
109,007Postings2,102 last week
4,649Employers541 last week
7,949Analysedwk of 20 Sep
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 109,007 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,102 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 | −1pp | 45 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | +2pp | 43 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ▼1 | 1 | Backend Development | – | 45 | ||
| 4 | 4 | ▲1 | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | +1pp | 34 | ||
| 5 | 7 | ▼1 | 4 | AI & LLM Applications | – | 14 | ||
| 6 | 9 | – | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 16 | ||
| 7 | 5 | – | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | – | 14 | ||
| 8 | 10 | – | 7 | Data Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 9 | 8 | – | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | – | 0 | ||
| 10 | 6 | – | 2 | QA & Testing | – | 14 | ||
| 11 | 11 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 12 | 12 | – | 9 | Frontend Development | – | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | – | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 14 | – | 11 | Data Science & ML | – | 0 | ||
| 15 | 15 | – | 13 | Data Analytics & BI | – | 0 |
Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season
Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development1,342
Fullstack Development1,139
Enterprise Platforms1,134
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,298
Delhi NCR1,044
Hyderabad1,036
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+5.1pp
Java+3.7pp
TypeScript+2.0pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Kubernetes+3.8pp
Docker+2.9pp
EKS+1.9pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AWS+3.8pp
Azure+1.2pp
GCP-0.2pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+2.7pp
Hibernate+0.9pp
Spring MVC+0.4pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Terraform+2.3pp
Ansible+1.0pp
Bicep+0.5pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Kafka+2.2pp
RabbitMQ+0.7pp
Flink+0.3pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Grafana+2.0pp
Prometheus+1.4pp
Splunk+0.7pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+1.9pp
Lambda+0.2pp
Amazon ECS+0.2pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Redis+1.8pp
Cassandra+1.0pp
DynamoDB+0.4pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
JUnit+1.5pp
Mockito+0.9pp
Jest+0.5pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenAI API+1.3pp
Anthropic Claude+1.2pp
Azure OpenAI+1.1pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+1.2pp
gRPC+0.8pp
OpenAPI/Swagger+0.3pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+1.1pp
Bitbucket+0.7pp
GitHub Actions+0.5pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+1.1pp
Vertex AI+0.6pp
Bicep+0.5pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangGraph+1.1pp
LangChain+0.7pp
LangChain Agents+0.5pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Oracle Database+1.0pp
PostgreSQL+0.9pp
Amazon RDS+0.7pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+1.0pp
CloudWatch+0.6pp
IAM+0.4pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+1.0pp
Databricks+1.0pp
Redshift+0.2pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+1.0pp
Vertex AI+0.6pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.3pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+0.7pp
Zustand+0.2pp
Redux Toolkit+0.1pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Node.js+0.7pp
FastAPI+0.2pp
ASP.NET MVC+0.1pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon RDS+0.7pp
DynamoDB+0.4pp
Amazon Kinesis+0.3pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.5pp
Selenium+0.4pp
Cypress+0.1pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Ab Initio+0.5pp
Airflow+0.3pp
EMR+0.3pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Qdrant+0.5pp
Weaviate+0.4pp
ChromaDB+0.4pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap+0.3pp
MUI-0.1pp
Sass/SCSS-0.4pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch+0.1pp
TensorFlow-0.1pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MLflow+0.1pp
Pandas-0.3pp
NumPy-0.4pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js-0.1pp
jQuery-0.2pp
NgRx-0.5pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI-0.1pp
Tableau-0.1pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture331
YASH Technologies64
Cisco38
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++