Java backend and full-stack engineers. Clients of staffing firms are mostly large enterprises and the IT services firms that serve them, and the application work they farm out is overwhelmingly Java. Java engineers are much the largest role here, well above their weight at product and services companies, and every kind of staffing firm posts them, from the global groups, like Insight Global and TEKsystems, to the smallest agencies. The postings require Spring Boot with React or Angular on top, AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, Kafka and Kubernetes, and relational databases. Most of this work is at senior level, and it is the role that defines Chennai here, through TekWissen.

SAP engineers. Running SAP is work that enterprises are used to buying by the head, so staffing firms carry it at several times its weight at product and services companies. The postings require SAP S/4HANA and ABAP, Materials Management, Fiori and Core Data Services, which are the tools for building screens and reports inside SAP. TekWissen and Wissen Infotech post nearly all of it, in Chennai and Bengaluru, and it is hired senior.

ServiceNow, Oracle and Power Platform engineers. The same logic brings the other packaged platforms. ServiceNow developers are well above their usual weight, and the postings require ServiceNow ITSM with client scripts, Flow Designer and Script Includes, which are its ways of adding logic and automation. Oracle application and database work, Oracle Integration Cloud, Microsoft Power Platform with Power BI, Power Automate and Power Apps, and Pega make up the rest. Together the packaged platforms are among the largest families of work here. Salesforce work is small.

Embedded firmware engineers. Engineering clients, in cars, devices and chips, ask staffing firms for firmware engineers, and a handful of small recruitment agencies and IT staffing firms specialise in finding them, TekPillar and Mulya Technologies most of all. Embedded firmware engineers are above their usual weight, and the postings require C and C++ with the Linux kernel and embedded Linux, device drivers, CAN bus, real-time operating systems, SPI and I2C, bootloaders and Yocto. Some of it is automotive work, and nearly all of it is in Bengaluru. C/C++ systems engineers on Linux, who work on the kernel, board support and TCP/IP networking, are a smaller group beside them, below their usual weight, and they take a few juniors.

.NET engineers. Much of the .NET work here is one story. BairesDev, a software-outsourcing firm that staffs American client teams from India, posts by far the largest share of it, and the rest comes from the PEO Vensure Employer Solutions, TrueBlue India and a scatter of IT staffing firms. The postings require C# and ASP.NET Core with SQL Server, React or Angular, and Azure or AWS. .NET sits at about its usual weight, and it is hired almost entirely with experience, at mid level more than any other role here. It is also the role behind Mumbai and Kolkata, where BairesDev posts nearly all of it, and much of Delhi NCR.

Test engineers. Testing is below its usual weight here, which is unusual for work that clients so often outsource. What there is runs on automation. The postings require Java with Playwright and Selenium, REST Assured and Postman for testing APIs, Jenkins, JMeter for performance testing and Cucumber. Manual and performance testing are small beside it.

GenAI engineers. Staffing firms were slow to post GenAI work and then caught up. GenAI engineers were below their usual weight over the record as a whole, but their share jumped between July and September 2026, to one of the larger roles. The postings are mostly for building applications on large language models rather than wiring them into existing software, and they require Python with LangChain and LangGraph, the OpenAI API, FastAPI and Pinecone, a database for the vectors such applications search. The work is spread thinly across many firms, from TekWissen and HuntingCube Recruitment Solutions to Recrew AI, an AI recruiting start-up, and HuntingCube Recruitment Solutions led the jump.

Frontend engineers. Clients ask for frontend engineers to build the screens of enterprise applications, and they are above their usual weight here. The postings require React most of all, with Angular, TypeScript, Next.js and responsive design, and some expect UX design too. Nearly all of it is in Bengaluru, and BairesDev is the largest single source.

Cloud and DevOps engineers. Cloud work is where staffing firms differ most from the rest of the market. Cloud and DevOps engineers are well below their usual weight, which fits clients keeping their platform teams in house and buying application engineers by the head instead. The postings require Python and Java with Kubernetes, AWS, Go, Terraform and Jenkins, and a larger share than usual are infrastructure and systems-administration roles rather than cloud-native platform work.

Data engineers. Data engineers are at about their usual weight. The postings require Python and SQL with Spark, PySpark, ETL tools, Databricks, Hadoop and Scala, the classic data-pipeline stack of a large enterprise. They are hired senior, and almost all in Bengaluru.

Python, full-stack and Node engineers. Three smaller roles share one feature. They are the ones that let juniors in. Python backend engineers, at nearly twice their usual weight, build services in FastAPI, Flask and Django, often with React, and OrbiTouch HR, an HR-outsourcing firm, posts more of them than anyone. Full-stack engineers who work in React with Python or Angular on any backend are above their usual weight, and they take juniors more readily than any other role here. JavaScript and Node full-stack engineers, in Node.js with React and TypeScript, are posted by Recro, Recrew AI and a scatter of small staffing firms.

Also present. Mobile engineers in Kotlin and Swift, mostly Android, with a real junior intake, posted most by Recro. Mainframe engineers in COBOL and JCL, with AS/400 and RPG, which TekWissen posts for its enterprise clients, all senior. Generalist software engineers, whose postings name no particular stack, mostly ordinary Java and Python backend work for clients in many industries. Software Engineer, Fintech, software engineers placed with banks, brokers and payment firms, a small group whose work is mostly ordinary backend work where finance is the setting, though a few postings require the FIX protocol. A few Go engineers and a few CAD engineering roles.

Rare here. Security software engineers, ML engineers and chip designers barely appear.