Low-code and automation developers in the GCCs

A role across the GCC collection, all ten Parent Industries together.

The short answer

Not every business application is written from scratch. Much of what a company's own staff need, a form that routes an approval, a dashboard for the finance team, a case-handling app for claims, a software robot that copies data between two old systems, is built by configuring a platform rather than coding one. Microsoft's Power Platform, Pega, Appian and robotic process automation tools such as UiPath are those platforms, and low-code and automation developers build on them. At the GCCs this is a small role, but four times its weight at product companies, because it is how a parent's centre builds quick tools for the parent's own staff. The banks hold about as much of it as all other industries together, NatWest Group the most of any centre, and the healthcare companies, the insurers, the manufacturers and the energy majors hire it well above their GCC weight, at Optum India, Takeda, The Hartford, Ecolab and Chevron among others. The role held a steady share through the record and reached its highest share in July to September 2026. The door is about the GCC average, and opens most at the insurers and the healthcare companies.

Where the work sits

The banks hold the most, at their usual weight.

Parent Industry 1, Inside the banks and financial institutions, posts about as much low-code work as all the other industries together. NatWest Group posts more than any other centre, then Wells Fargo, JPMorganChase, Empower, Commonwealth Bank and U.S. Bank, and at First Citizens India low-code is a large part of all hiring. (More on it in the banks' hiring, in Parent Industry 1.)

The healthcare companies and the insurers hire it at nearly twice their weight.

Optum India and Takeda hire the most among the healthcare companies, and at Takeda low-code is one of the larger roles. (More on it in the healthcare companies' hiring, in Parent Industry 5.) Among the insurers, The Hartford, Principal Global Services, The Standard and FM hire low-code developers.

The manufacturers and the energy majors hire it well above their weight. In Parent Industry 4, Inside the manufacturers and carmakers, Ecolab, Volvo Group and PACCAR hire them. In Parent Industry 7, Inside the energy and oil majors, Chevron does, at several times the GCC weight.

The retailers hire it under their weight, through Tesco's back office and Columbia Sportswear. (More on it in the retailers' hiring, in Parent Industry 3.) The logistics operators, like UPS, Maersk and DHL, hire almost none.

By mandate, low-code is the work of the systems centres. The centres Running the parent's own systems, like Chevron, Ecolab, MillerKnoll and Columbia Sportswear, hire low-code developers at nearly five times their GCC weight. The centres that took on The whole engineering function, like NatWest Group, Wells Fargo and Takeda, hire them at their weight. The centres Building the parent's apps and platforms, like JPMorganChase, Optum India and Commonwealth Bank, hold a large share at under their weight.

What the work is

Low-code and automation work at the GCCs has three parts.

Microsoft's Power Platform, the largest part. The postings require Power Apps for simple applications, Power Automate for workflows, Power BI for reports and Dataverse for their data, with SQL, Azure and often C# and .NET for what the platform cannot do on its own. NatWest Group, Commonwealth Bank, Ecolab, MillerKnoll and Takeda hire the most.

Workflow and case-management platforms, Pega and Appian, for applications that route a case, a claim or an approval through many steps. Pega is at JPMorganChase, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo and The Hartford, and Appian at MillerKnoll and First Citizens India.

Robotic process automation, UiPath and Automation Anywhere, software robots that work through other applications' screens the way a person would. NatWest Group, MillerKnoll, Volvo Group, Optum India and Tesco hire for it.

The emphasis follows the industry. The banks pair low-code with Java and Spring and lean to Pega. The healthcare companies pair it with C# and Azure. The insurers lean to UiPath and Pega, the retailers to software robots, and the manufacturers to SQL Server and C# beside Power BI.

None of these postings ask for experience with AI models.

Bengaluru has most of the work. Hyderabad and Delhi NCR hold a larger share of it than of GCC hiring, and Mumbai almost none.

What is changing

These readings follow the record quarter by quarter, from October to December 2025, the third quarter of the financial year 2025-26, to July to September 2026, the second quarter of 2026-27. A longer record will show whether they last.

Low-code held its ground and then rose

Low-code openings followed GCC hiring up to April to June 2026, then fell much less than GCC hiring in July to September, so the role reached its largest share of GCC hiring in that last quarter. At product companies its small share barely moved.

The manufacturers grew

The manufacturers' low-code openings grew strongly in April to September 2026, while the healthcare companies' fell back in the last quarter. NatWest Group's grew through the record.

Persistently open roles

Low-code jobs stay open about as often as GCC jobs overall, and close quickly when they do. When one is posted again, its first and last postings are typically about two weeks apart, and nine in ten are within about six weeks.

The healthcare companies and the systems centres keep low-code jobs open longest. The banks rarely post one twice, and NatWest Group seldom does.

Low-code with real coding is hardest to fill. The low-code jobs posted again most often also require Java, Oracle, React, TypeScript or C#.

The door

The low-code door is about the GCC average. Junior openings are a little above the GCC rate, though far fewer entry-level openings than at product companies, and senior and staff openings are at about their GCC share.

The insurers and the healthcare companies take juniors most readily. The manufacturers post none.

The juniors are at NatWest Group and Optum India, with Principal Global Services, Goldman Sachs, Columbia Sportswear and Chevron behind.

In one line

If you build with the Power Platform, Pega, Appian or UiPath, the GCCs hire you at four times the rate of product companies, at the banks, the drugmakers like Takeda and MSD, the insurers and the systems centres of manufacturers and oil companies, to build tools for the parent's own staff.

Terms used on this page

Mandate

The kind of work a parent company gives its engineering centre in India, such as building its apps and platforms, running its own systems, or testing software built elsewhere.

Low-code

Building applications mostly by configuring a platform rather than writing code.

Power Platform, Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse

Microsoft's tools for reports, simple applications and automated workflows, and the data store they share.

Pega and Appian

Low-code platforms for workflow and case-handling applications.

Robotic process automation, UiPath and Automation Anywhere

Software robots that carry out routine work through other applications' screens, and the two main tools for building them.

Back to the story

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