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E-commerce & Retail

Section 1 / Overview

Which way this sector's hiring is moving

Marketplaces, retail tech, and the consumer commerce stack.

E-commerce and retail brings together online marketplaces and the broader retail-technology stack, from storefront platforms to supply and fulfilment systems. Hiring is led by large consumer marketplaces alongside retail-tech firms and omnichannel players. It is one of the more consumer-facing sectors, spanning scale engineering and product work.

Top companies hiring
Most active employers over the last 4 weeks, by posting volume.
  • Amazon
  • Tesco
  • eBay
  • Mattel Inc.
  • Priceline
  • PDI Technologies
  • Lowe's India
  • AiSensy
  • Best Buy™ India
  • Wayfair
  • 7-Eleven
  • Albertsons Companies
Weekly postings28 weeks
0100200300Dec 28Jan 25Feb 22Mar 22Apr 19May 17Jun 14Jul 05postings / wk
Weekly posting counts across the sector.
Weekly active companies28 weeks
0204060Dec 28Jan 25Feb 22Mar 22Apr 19May 17Jun 14Jul 05companies / wk
Distinct companies with at least one posting each week.
Section 2 / Profile Distribution

The roles this sector actually hires

Backend Development dominates at around a quarter of postings, more than twice the share of Fullstack Development at a bit more than a tenth. Below the leader, demand fans out evenly across a long run of mid-sized tracks at well under a tenth each.

Rest of marketLeading profile

  1. Backend Development+10
  2. Fullstack Development±0
  3. DevOps & Platform Engineering+1
  4. Domain-Specific Development+3
  5. AI & LLM Applications+1
  6. Generalist Software Engineer+1
  7. Systems & Embedded Engineering−2
  8. Data Engineering+1
  9. Mobile Development+3
  10. Enterprise Platforms−15
  11. QA & Testing−3
  12. Frontend Development±0
  13. Data Analytics & BI−5
  14. Data Science & ML+1
  15. Security Engineering±0

Sorted by share of postings · gap = share − rest of market, in points

Section 3 / Company-Class Distribution

The kinds of companies behind the sector

E-commerce and retail hiring is split between multinationals and elite global tech, which together account for the large majority, with homegrown product companies well behind.

This industryRest of markettop employers by openings in the last 2 weeks

  1. MNCs & GCCs15 employers hiring
    This industry~40%
    Rest of market~25%
    • Tesco
    • Mattel Inc.
    • eBay
    • Lowe's India
    • 7-Eleven
  2. MAANG & Tier-1 Tech2 employers hiring
    This industry~35%
    Rest of market~2%
    • Amazon
    • Apple
  3. Unicorns & Indian Product15 employers hiring
    This industry~9%
    Rest of market~6%
    • Priceline
    • PDI Technologies
    • Crunchyroll
    • Urban Company
    • ACV Auctions
  4. Established SMEs6 employers hiring
    This industry~7%
    Rest of market~9%
    • Wayfair
    • AiSensy
    • BKNG (Booking Holdings)
    • Blitz
    • Cimpress
  5. Funded Startups4 employers hiring
    This industry~5%
    Rest of market~3%
    • SureBright
    • Amenify
    • Minoan
    • Snabbit
  6. IT Services & BPO2 employers hiring
    This industry~2%
    Rest of market~45%
    • Best Buy™ India
    • Undocked
  7. Lala Companies0 employers hiring
    This industrynegligible
    Rest of market~3%

    No listed employer hiring in the last 2 weeks.

  8. Staffing & Bodyshops0 employers hiring
    This industrynegligible
    Rest of market~6%

    No listed employer hiring in the last 2 weeks.

Section 4 / City Distribution

Where in India this sector hires

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Bangalore holds around seven in ten of e-commerce and retail hiring. Kolkata shrinks to almost nothing. Pune also falls short of its usual weight, at a very small share. Hyderabad and Chennai are the steadier secondary markets, tracking their national shares at a bit more than a tenth and just under a tenth.

City distribution — share of this industry's postings by city (the seven city-page cities), with each city's share of the rest of the market and the over/under index.

Mkt %Rest of marketCityShare of sectorSec %
~50%01Bangalore1.40× over~70%
~15%02Hyderabad1.00× par~15%
~8%03Chennai0.88× under~7%
~10%04Delhi NCR0.60× under~6%
~15%05Pune0.27× under~4%
~4%06Mumbai Region0.75× under~3%
~1%07Kolkata<1%<1%

Share of this sector's postings by city vs the rest of the market. A longer sector wing than market wing means the city over-indexes for this sector here.

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