Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
111,691Postings2,156 last week
4,701Employers549 last week
1,880Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 111,691 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 2,156 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 | 47 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | +2pp | 45 | ||
| 3 | 7 | ▲1 | 3 | AI & LLM Applications | +5pp | 16 | ||
| 4 | 3 | ▼2 | 1 | Backend Development | −3pp | 47 | ||
| 5 | 5 | – | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | −1pp | 35 | ||
| 6 | 4 | – | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 17 | ||
| 7 | 9 | – | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −1pp | 14 | ||
| 8 | 11 | – | 7 | Data Engineering | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 9 | 8 | – | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | −1pp | 0 | ||
| 10 | 6 | – | 2 | QA & Testing | – | 14 | ||
| 11 | 10 | – | 11 | Mobile Development | – | 0 | ||
| 12 | 12 | – | 9 | Frontend Development | – | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | – | 13 | Security Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 14 | 15 | ▲1 | 13 | Data Analytics & BI | – | 0 | ||
| 15 | 14 | ▼1 | 11 | Data Science & ML | – | 0 |
Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season
Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development1,391
Enterprise Platforms1,255
Fullstack Development1,202
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore5,493
Hyderabad1,123
Delhi NCR1,108
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Python+12.9pp
TypeScript+11.1pp
SQL+6.0pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+10.5pp
Amazon API Gateway+0.2pp
OpenAPI/Swagger+0.1pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+10.4pp
JEE+0.6pp
Hibernate+0.3pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+8.5pp
Angular+7.3pp
jQuery-0.2pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+7.8pp
React Hooks+0.2pp
Zustand+0.1pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Kubernetes+3.4pp
Docker+3.1pp
EKS+1.3pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Semantic Kernel+2.9pp
LangChain+2.8pp
LlamaIndex+2.8pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Milvus+2.8pp
Weaviate+2.7pp
pgvector+2.7pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Terraform+2.4pp
CloudFormation+0.7pp
Bicep+0.6pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Grafana+1.8pp
Datadog+1.2pp
Prometheus+1.1pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure+1.8pp
AWS+0.2pp
GCP+0.1pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
EKS+1.3pp
Amazon API Gateway+0.2pp
Amazon ECS0.0pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+1.1pp
Kafka+0.5pp
Amazon Kinesis+0.5pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Snowflake+1.1pp
Databricks+0.4pp
Delta Lake+0.2pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
.NET+0.7pp
NestJS+0.1pp
Ruby on Rails0.0pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
CloudFormation+0.7pp
Amazon Bedrock+0.7pp
SageMaker+0.4pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Bedrock+0.7pp
SageMaker+0.4pp
Vertex AI+0.2pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Cassandra+0.6pp
DynamoDB+0.3pp
Memcached+0.2pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.6pp
Bicep+0.6pp
Entra ID+0.3pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure OpenAI+0.6pp
OpenAI API+0.5pp
Anthropic Claude+0.3pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Playwright+0.5pp
Cypress+0.1pp
Selenium-0.1pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon Kinesis+0.5pp
DynamoDB+0.3pp
Amazon RDS+0.2pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
JUnit+0.4pp
TestNG+0.2pp
Mockito+0.1pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Hive+0.3pp
Presto/Trino+0.2pp
EMR+0.2pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon RDS+0.2pp
Amazon Aurora0.0pp
Oracle Database-0.2pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bootstrap+0.2pp
Sass/SCSS-0.7pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Argo CD+0.2pp
CircleCI0.0pp
CodePipeline0.0pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
MLflow+0.2pp
NumPy-0.4pp
Scikit-learn-0.5pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
TensorFlow+0.1pp
PyTorch0.0pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI-0.3pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture169
Amazon158
Societe Generale57
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++