Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
The taxonomy of the Indian software job market.
83,894Postings1,742 last week
4,319Employers469 last week
2,175Analysedthis week
This Week in Indian Tech Hiring
Ingrid has analysed 83,894 real Indian software job postings, classified by role, city, industry, company type and skill. Around 1,742 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 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 | 35 | ||
| 2 | 1 | ▲1 | 2 | Fullstack Development | – | 33 | ||
| 3 | 4 | ▼1 | 1 | Backend Development | −3pp | 35 | ||
| 4 | 7 | ▲2 | 4 | AI & LLM Applications | +2pp | 4 | ||
| 5 | 3 | ▼1 | 3 | Generalist Software Engineer | −2pp | 13 | ||
| 6 | 8 | ▼1 | 3 | Systems & Embedded Engineering | −1pp | 27 | ||
| 7 | 9 | – | 2 | DevOps & Platform Engineering | – | 15 | ||
| 8 | 5 | – | 2 | QA & Testing | – | 13 | ||
| 9 | 11 | – | 7 | Data Engineering | – | 0 | ||
| 10 | 10 | – | 9 | Domain-Specific Development | – | 0 | ||
| 11 | 6 | – | 9 | 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 | – | 11 | Data Science & ML | – | 0 |
Market Movers — the shifts in Indian tech hiring this season
Top roles for fresherspostings · this season
Backend Development1,074
Fullstack Development864
Enterprise Platforms823
Top cities for fresherspostings · this season
Bangalore4,360
Delhi NCR823
Hyderabad744
Programming Languages · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
TypeScript+6.1pp
Python+4.0pp
JavaScript+1.7pp
Angular, Vue & Other · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Vue.js+5.7pp
Angular+2.9pp
NgRx+0.1pp
API Tools & Protocols · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GraphQL+5.5pp
SOAP+1.8pp
WebSockets+0.2pp
React Ecosystem · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
React+4.9pp
React Hooks+0.5pp
React Context API+0.5pp
Relational Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PostgreSQL+1.5pp
Amazon Aurora+0.1pp
IBM Db2-0.3pp
.NET, Node, Python & Other Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Node.js+1.0pp
NestJS+0.3pp
FastAPI-0.1pp
Java & Spring Backend · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Spring Boot+0.9pp
JSP+0.1pp
Tomcat-0.6pp
AI / LLM Technologies · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
LangChain+0.8pp
LangGraph+0.6pp
LlamaIndex+0.4pp
LLM Models & Providers · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Anthropic Claude+0.7pp
OpenAI API+0.5pp
Gemini+0.4pp
Infrastructure as Code · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+0.6pp
CDK-0.2pp
Puppet-0.2pp
Azure & GCP Services · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Bicep+0.6pp
Vertex AI+0.4pp
Event Hubs+0.2pp
CI/CD & DevOps Tools · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Azure DevOps+0.5pp
CircleCI+0.1pp
Argo CD0.0pp
Messaging & Streaming · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pulsar+0.5pp
Event Hubs+0.2pp
Spark Streaming+0.2pp
AWS DevOps, Security & AI · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SageMaker+0.4pp
Amazon Bedrock+0.1pp
CodePipeline0.0pp
Data Warehouses & Lakehouse · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Databricks+0.4pp
Snowflake+0.2pp
Redshift+0.2pp
Managed AI Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
SageMaker+0.4pp
Vertex AI+0.4pp
Azure AI Foundry+0.2pp
Vector Databases · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
pgvector+0.4pp
Pinecone+0.3pp
Weaviate+0.3pp
Deep-Learning Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
PyTorch+0.4pp
Keras+0.2pp
TensorFlow+0.1pp
AWS Databases & Analytics · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Redshift+0.2pp
SQS+0.1pp
Amazon Aurora+0.1pp
Data Science & ML Libraries · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Pandas+0.2pp
MLflow+0.2pp
NumPy+0.1pp
CSS / UI Styling · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Sass/SCSS+0.1pp
Styled Components+0.1pp
MUI0.0pp
Unit & Test Frameworks · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Jest+0.1pp
Mocha0.0pp
xUnit0.0pp
AWS Compute & Networking · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Amazon ALB+0.1pp
S3-0.1pp
Lambda-0.1pp
Data Processing & Pipelines · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Airflow+0.1pp
AWS Glue+0.1pp
Azure Data Factory0.0pp
NoSQL & In-Memory Stores · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Aerospike0.0pp
Memcached-0.1pp
Couchbase-0.1pp
Containers & Orchestration · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Istio-0.1pp
Helm-0.8pp
OpenShift-0.8pp
Monitoring & Observability · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
AppDynamics-0.1pp
Datadog-0.2pp
CloudWatch-0.2pp
BI & Visualization · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Power BI-0.1pp
Tableau-0.2pp
API & UI Test Automation · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
Postman-0.2pp
Cypress-0.3pp
Playwright-0.5pp
Cloud Platforms · gaining groundshare-pt gain · quarter
GCP-2.3pp
AWS-2.6pp
Azure-4.3pp
Top employers this weekpostings · latest week
Accenture404
Capgemini90
Scout Inc.40
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++