Industry

Media & Publishing

Section 1 / Overview

Which way this sector's hiring is moving

News, digital media, and publishing tech.

Media and publishing covers digital media, publishing platforms, and the content-technology stack around them. The employers are a mix of media houses, publishing firms, and the technology teams building their distribution and monetisation tools. It is one of the smaller sectors on the platform, weighted toward product and content-platform work.

Top companies hiring

Most active employers over the last 4 weeks, by posting volume.

JioStar
Thomson Reuters
Pearson
Warner Bros. Discovery
RELX
Bloomberg
Courtside Ventures
Elsevier
Evertz
Trend Today 360
CXO Inc.
Crunchyroll

Weekly postings28 weeks

Weekly posting counts across the sector.

Weekly active companies28 weeks

Distinct companies with at least one posting each week.

Section 2 / Profile Distribution

The roles this sector actually hires

Fullstack Development and Backend Development sit level at the top, each at around a fifth of postings. The two web-stack tracks share the lead evenly, and the rest of demand fans out into smaller roles at under a tenth each.

Share of postingsRest of marketLeading profile

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

Media and publishing hiring is concentrated among multinationals, with established firms the only other class carrying real weight.

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

01
MNCs & GCCs7 employers hiring
This industry~65%
Rest of market~25%
- Thomson Reuters
- Warner Bros. Discovery
- Bloomberg
- Elsevier
- Pearson
02
Established SMEs3 employers hiring
This industry~20%
Rest of market~9%
- JoVE
- Fox Corp.
- RELX
Lala Companies0 employers hiring
This industry~4%
Rest of market~3%
No listed employer hiring in the last 2 weeks.
04
Unicorns & Indian Product1 employer hiring
This industry~3%
Rest of market~6%
- Crunchyroll
IT Services & BPO0 employers hiring
This industry~3%
Rest of market~45%
No listed employer hiring in the last 2 weeks.
06
Staffing & Bodyshops1 employer hiring
This industrynegligible
Rest of market~5%
- CXO Inc.
Funded Startups0 employers hiring
This industrynegligible
Rest of market~3%
No listed employer hiring in the last 2 weeks.
MAANG & Tier-1 Tech0 employers hiring
This industrynegligible
Rest of market~5%
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 just over half of media and publishing hiring. Chennai climbs steeply on its regional media strength, to around a fifth. Mumbai Region also runs above its usual weight, at well under a tenth. Pune almost vanishes here, the weakest of the named cities.

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 %

~55%01Bangalore1.00× par~55%

~8%02Chennai1.88× over~15%

~15%03Hyderabad0.67× under~10%

~9%04Delhi NCR1.00× par~9%

~4%05Mumbai Region1.75× over~7%

~10%06Pune0.20× under~2%

~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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