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What Accenture hires for Accenture, one of the firms in Company Tier 1, The IT services giants, in the services world. Accenture posts so much that it would swamp any reading it is part of, so every other job analysis in the services world leaves it out, and its hiring is described here, whole. The short answer Accenture posts more openings than every other services firm in India put together, about twice as many. What sets it apart is not the volume but the work. The largest part of what it hires for is packaged-platform work, configuring, extending and connecting business software a client has bought rather than built. SAP alone is much the largest role, several times its weight in the rest of the services world and dozens of times its weight at product companies. Behind SAP come developers for Workday, Oracle and other business suites, then Salesforce, integration, ServiceNow and the low-code platforms. General engineering is there too, but smaller than elsewhere in services. Java engineers appear well below their rate in the rest of the services world, and testing and cloud engineers at a fraction of it. GenAI engineers are the exception, at a little above the services rate and growing fastest of all. The door is a mid-level door. Most openings ask for a few years of experience, senior openings are far rarer than elsewhere in services, and fresher openings are almost absent. Who gets hired, and why SAP Workday GenAI Java backend and full-stack Salesforce Generalists Data Integration Cloud and DevOps .NET ServiceNow Low-code platform Test Frontend Smaller groups

SAP engineers. Accenture runs one of the largest SAP practices in the world, and the postings follow. SAP engineers set up and extend a company's core system for orders, stock, purchasing and accounts, and move clients onto its newest version, S/4HANA. The postings require SAP and ABAP, with HANA, Fiori and SAPUI5 for the screens, Core Data Services for the data, and the BTP Integration Suite for connecting SAP to everything else. Many name a functional area as well, Materials Management and warehouse management above all, so a good share of these roles want someone who knows how purchasing and stock work, not only the code. Some SAP postings also name Salesforce's clouds or Oracle's integration service beside SAP, because a client's SAP rarely stands alone.

Workday, Oracle and other business-suite developers. The second-largest role is the same kind of work on other suites. Where a suite is named, Workday, the HR and finance system, leads by a distance, with its integration tools and Workday Studio, and Oracle's systems and Salesforce's clouds follow. But most of these postings name no suite at all. They ask for developers who build on a client's business systems in Java and Spring Boot or .NET with SQL, enterprise application work done in code. This role is several times its weight in the rest of the services world, and it has grown faster than any other at Accenture.

GenAI engineers. Every client wants AI inside the systems Accenture builds and runs, and Accenture hires GenAI engineers at a little above the rate of the rest of the services world. Most of these roles are about putting language models inside existing applications rather than building AI products from scratch. The postings require Python above all, with TypeScript and Spring Boot for the application around the model, React, Angular or Vue.js for its screens, and LangChain, Semantic Kernel or LlamaIndex for the model work. GenAI is the most senior-leaning large role here, and its share of openings roughly doubled between April to June and July to September 2026.

Java backend and full-stack engineers. Java is a much smaller part of Accenture's hiring than of the rest of the services world. What there is splits evenly between backend and full-stack work and leans to the front end. The postings require Spring Boot, with React, Angular and, unusually often, Vue.js, which barely appears elsewhere in services. A notable share also require experience of building with language models.

Salesforce engineers. Salesforce is the third packaged platform here, at several times its weight in the rest of the services world. The postings require Lightning Web Components above all, with Apex and the Sales and Service Clouds, and OmniStudio, Salesforce's tool for guided customer journeys in banking and insurance. More of this work sits in Delhi NCR than any other role at Accenture.

Generalist software engineers. A large group of postings describe general development work rather than one stack. Some ask for Python and Git with testing and project methods; some lean to building applications, in Java, JavaScript or C#; some lean to infrastructure, in Python and SQL. Together they are a bigger role at Accenture than in the rest of the services world, and far bigger than at product companies. They are the roles a firm of this size staffs onto many different client accounts.

Data engineers. Data engineering is a little below its weight in the rest of the services world. The postings require Python and SQL with ETL and data pipelines, on Databricks, Snowflake and Azure, the platforms on which large clients now keep their data.

Integration developers. Connecting a client's systems to one another, so that an order taken in one appears in the next, is a role of its own here, above its services weight. The postings require Oracle Integration Cloud, MuleSoft and Boomi, the platforms that pass data between applications, with Salesforce's clouds on the other end of many connections.

Cloud and DevOps engineers. A far smaller role than in the rest of the services world, where running clients' cloud platforms is a large business. The postings require Python, AWS, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes and Terraform, and many add monitoring tools such as Splunk, Grafana and Datadog. This is the role that takes juniors most readily at Accenture.

.NET engineers. Below their weight in the rest of the services world, and almost entirely full-stack, with React, Angular and Vue.js on top of C# and ASP.NET Core and GraphQL between them. A large share of these postings also require experience of building with language models, the highest share of any role here outside GenAI itself.

ServiceNow engineers. Accenture builds and runs IT service desks on ServiceNow for its clients, and ServiceNow engineers appear above their weight in the rest of the services world. The postings require the ServiceNow platform and its IT service management module, with JavaScript, IntegrationHub and Flow Designer.

Low-code platform developers. Pega, Microsoft's Power Apps and Power Automate, and Appian appear at about their services weight. These developers build workflow and case-handling applications by configuring a platform rather than writing a system from scratch.

Test engineers. A small fraction of their weight across the rest of the services world. The postings require Java with Selenium and Playwright, Cucumber, JMeter for performance, Appium for mobile and Tricentis Tosca, a commercial testing tool common in SAP programmes.

Frontend, full-stack and mobile engineers. Frontend engineers work in React and Angular with an emphasis on responsive design, component architecture and state management. Full-stack engineers hired for the build rather than one language appear above their services weight, mostly React over SQL. Mobile engineers are Android first, in Kotlin with MVVM and Jetpack, with iOS and cross-platform work behind; on Accenture's volume this means more mobile openings than in the rest of the services world together.

Smaller groups. Several small roles are distinctive. Adobe Experience Manager developers build large corporate websites on Adobe's content platform. Power BI developers build reports and dashboards. Mainframe engineers keep banks' and insurers' oldest systems running in COBOL, JCL and AS/400. Embedded engineers work on car software, where the postings require AUTOSAR, CAN bus and the car industry's safety and process standards, ISO 26262 and ASPICE. Fintech software engineers, introduced as Software Engineer, Fintech, work for bank and insurer clients, a part of them on Guidewire, the insurance platform, and Finacle, the core banking system; the rest are generalist software engineers placed with a client's industry.

Rare here. Python backend engineers, JavaScript and Node engineers, ML engineers, security software engineers, C/C++ systems engineers and chip designers barely appear.

The skills that set Accenture apart SAP, end to endABAP, HANA, Fiori, S/4HANA and the BTP Integration Suite, with functional knowledge of purchasing, stock and warehouses. The SAP postings require them, and no other services firm hires for them on this scale. The other business suitesWorkday and its integration tools, Oracle's applications, and Salesforce's Lightning Web Components, Apex and OmniStudio. The connecting platformsOracle Integration Cloud, MuleSoft, Boomi and the BTP Integration Suite, in the integration and SAP postings. Language models inside ordinary rolesLangChain, Semantic Kernel and LlamaIndex in the GenAI postings, and experience with language models in a notable share of .NET and Java postings too. Vue.js beside React and AngularRequired in many Java, .NET and GenAI postings, and almost nowhere else in the services world. 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.

Accenture has hired more every quarter, against the tideIt posted little from October to December 2025, and its openings have risen in each quarter since, with July to September 2026 the highest of all. Over the same months the rest of the services world posted less each quarter, and product companies roughly halved their openings between April to June and July to September 2026. The platforms took overSAP's share of openings doubled between October to December 2025 and July to September 2026, and Workday, Oracle and the other business suites grew from a small role to the second largest. Together they now make up much the greater part of Accenture's hiring. Java and Salesforce easedJava's share fell through 2026 as the platform roles grew. Salesforce grew into early 2026 and then fell back, ending well below where it started. AI surged in July to September 2026GenAI's share of openings roughly doubled from April to June, and Accenture's overall AI share, which had trailed the rest of the services world for a year, caught up with it. Hiring turned more seniorSenior and staff openings, a small part of the mix through June 2026, rose sharply between April to June and July to September 2026.
Persistently open roles

Accenture keeps far fewer jobs open again and again than the rest of the services world. It tends to post a new job for each opening rather than post the same job twice.

SAP jobs fill quickly here. SAP jobs are posted again far less often at Accenture than elsewhere in services, where SAP is among the hardest roles to fill. Cloud, mobile and Salesforce jobs are posted again least often. The generalist roles and GenAI are posted again most often. Adobe and mainframe skills are the hardest to find. The skills found most often in persistently open jobs are those of Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe's marketing tools, the Teradata data warehouse, the IMS mainframe database, and the testing tools for native mobile apps. Mid-level jobs stay open most often, and staff-level jobs least. When a job is posted again, its first and last postings are typically about three weeks apart, and rarely more than about eleven weeks.
Where the work is

Accenture's hiring is spread across Indian cities far more evenly than the rest of the services world, where Bengaluru holds most of the work. Bengaluru still leads, but Pune and Hyderabad are close behind and level with each other, followed by Chennai and Delhi NCR, then the Mumbai region.

The roles sort by city. Hyderabad is the first city for SAP and for GenAI, with Pune second for SAP. Delhi NCR is unusually strong for Salesforce and for Workday, Oracle and the other business suites. Bengaluru leads for Java, data engineering, integration and the generalist roles.

The door

Accenture's door is a mid-level door, unlike anywhere else in the services world. Mid-level openings are the clear majority, well above their share in the rest of the services world. Senior openings are far fewer than elsewhere in services, though their share rose sharply in July to September 2026. Junior openings are somewhat rarer than in the rest of the services world, and entry-level openings almost never appear. A fresher's way in is the campus and national hiring that Company Tier 1 describes, not these postings.

Cloud and DevOps take juniors most readily in proportion, followed by testing. In number, the junior openings are in SAP, Workday, Oracle and the other business suites, and cloud, because those are where the volume is. GenAI leans most senior of the large roles, and the Salesforce, data and integration roles are the most firmly mid-level.
In one line If you know SAP, Workday, Salesforce or ServiceNow, or want to, Accenture is the largest single employer for that work in India, and it hires mainly at the mid level. If you are a Java, testing or cloud engineer, Accenture hires you in large numbers only because it is large; the rest of the services world wants you more. Terms used on this page Packaged platform Business software a company buys and then configures, rather than builds, such as SAP, Workday or Salesforce. ERP and CRM Enterprise resource planning, the system that runs a company's orders, stock, purchasing and accounts; and customer relationship management, the system that tracks its customers and sales. SAP, S/4HANA, ABAP and Fiori The largest ERP system, its newest version, its programming language and its screen framework. Materials Management and warehouse management The parts of SAP that handle purchasing and stock, and the running of a warehouse. SAP BTP Integration Suite SAP's service for connecting SAP to other systems. Workday A packaged system for a company's HR and finance. Oracle Integration Cloud, MuleSoft and Boomi Platforms that pass data between a company's applications. Sales, Service, Marketing and Experience Cloud Salesforce's products for selling, customer service, marketing and customer websites. Apex, Lightning Web Components and OmniStudio Salesforce's programming language, its screen components, and its tool for guided customer journeys. ServiceNow and IT service management A platform for running a company's IT help desk, requests and changes. Pega, Appian, Power Apps and Power Automate Low-code platforms for building workflow and case-handling applications by configuration. Power BI Microsoft's tool for business reports and dashboards. Adobe Experience Manager Adobe's platform for building and running large corporate websites. Guidewire A packaged system insurers use for policies, billing and claims. Finacle A core banking system, the software that holds a bank's accounts and transactions. Mainframe, COBOL, JCL and AS/400 The large central computers banks and insurers still run, their main language, their job-control scripts, and an older IBM system of the same kind. AUTOSAR and CAN bus The shared software standard for car controllers, and the wiring standard over which they talk. ISO 26262 and ASPICE The car industry's standards for software safety and for how software is developed.
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