Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
98,209Postings2,951 last week
4,524Employers681 last week
326Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 98,209 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,951 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 | 41 | ||
| 2 | 3 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | +1pp | 39 | ||
| 3 | 7 | ▲3 | 3 | AI & LLM Applications | +5pp | 9 | ||
| 4 | 2 | ▼2 | 1 | Backend Development | −1pp | 41 | ||
| 5 | 5 | – | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | +1pp | 31 | ||
| 6 | 4 | ▲1 | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | +1pp | 16 | ||
| 7 | 6 | ▼3 | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −3pp | 14 | ||
| 8 | 11 | ▲1 | 7 | Data Engineering | +1pp | 0 | ||
| 9 | 9 | ▲1 | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | – | 0 | ||
| 10 | 8 | ▼2 | 2 | QA & Testing | −2pp | 14 | ||
| 11 | 10 | ▲1 | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 12 | 12 | ▼1 | 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 Development1,278
Enterprise Platforms1,092
Fullstack Development1,066
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,068
Delhi NCR1,001
Hyderabad961
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+13.2pp
TypeScript+10.4pp
JavaScript+6.8pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+11.0pp
WebSockets+0.1pp
OpenAPI/Swagger-0.3pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+10.8pp
Angular+7.5pp
NgRx-0.1pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+7.3pp
Redux Toolkit+0.2pp
React Hooks+0.1pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+7.3pp
Tomcat-0.3pp
JPA-0.9pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+3.0pp
Semantic Kernel+2.1pp
LangGraph+1.7pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Weaviate+1.6pp
pgvector+1.6pp
Milvus+1.4pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+1.0pp
Bicep+0.5pp
Vertex AI+0.2pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
OpenAI API+1.0pp
Azure OpenAI+1.0pp
Anthropic Claude+0.9pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
FastAPI+0.7pp
NestJS-0.1pp
Flask-0.3pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+0.6pp
Flink+0.3pp
MSK+0.1pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+0.5pp
CDK-0.1pp
Chef-0.3pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.4pp
SageMaker+0.4pp
CodePipeline+0.1pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.4pp
SageMaker+0.4pp
Vertex AI+0.2pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.3pp
Selenium-0.5pp
Cypress-0.5pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spark SQL+0.3pp
Azure Data Factory+0.1pp
Informatica+0.1pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Redis+0.2pp
Memcached0.0pp
Neo4j-0.1pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cucumber+0.1pp
NUnit-0.2pp
Mockito-0.3pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
CodePipeline+0.1pp
Argo CD-0.2pp
Harness-0.2pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MSK+0.1pp
Redshift0.0pp
Amazon Kinesis-0.2pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure Synapse+0.1pp
Snowflake0.0pp
Delta Lake0.0pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
IBM Db20.0pp
Amazon Aurora-0.7pp
Amazon RDS-1.1pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch0.0pp
TensorFlow-0.1pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Tailwind CSS-0.1pp
Bootstrap-0.2pp
Sass/SCSS-0.6pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Prometheus-0.1pp
OpenTelemetry-0.1pp
Datadog-0.3pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI-0.1pp
Tableau-0.2pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
NumPy-0.1pp
MLflow-0.1pp
Pandas-0.2pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EC2-0.2pp
Amazon ECS-0.2pp
Lambda-0.3pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Helm-0.5pp
OpenShift-0.5pp
EKS-0.6pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure-2.5pp
GCP-2.6pp
AWS-6.3pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture516
Amazon277
JPMorganChase61
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++