Ingrid — India’s software job market, decoded
Last week in the Indian software job market.
31 August – 5 September 2026
The Week
The biggest block of the week was not one company's doing, for once.
- Job descriptions
- 1,753
- New this week
- 1,464
- Reposted
- 71
Consulting and services made up more of the week than any other sector came close to, and the reflex is to look for one giant behind it. Not this time. That block came from dozens of separate employers, and the largest of them is nowhere near a majority of it. Then sort the same week by how many companies were actually hiring rather than how much they posted, and the mid-sized firms come out with as many doors open as the tech multinationals, on a small fraction of the volume. If you are applying rather than counting, that second ranking is the one worth your Monday.
Where the Hiring Was
Ranked by volume. The row on top is the whole services industry moving, not one company inside it.
| Postings | New | Employers | Biggest | Their share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Consulting | 891 | 883 | 48 | Accenture | 35% |
| SaaS | 203 | 169 | 84 | 12% | |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 136 | 125 | 23 | NetApp | 27% |
| Banking & Finance | 115 | 113 | 24 | JPMorganChase | 30% |
| Hardware & Semiconductors | 93 | 81 | 20 | NetApp | 40% |
| Fintech | 86 | 82 | 34 | Wells Fargo | 24% |
| Wealth Management | 74 | 72 | 10 | JPMorganChase | 46% |
| AI & ML Platforms | 65 | 55 | 20 | 39% |
The largest row here is unusual. A great deal of volume, but spread across dozens of employers with no single one holding anything like half of it. That is a whole industry advertising at once, rather than one firm's batch upload, which is what a row that size normally turns out to be.
Many Doors, or One
The same week by how many different doors were open. Some of these sectors are essentially one company.
Widest open
| Postings | Employers | Biggest | Their share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SaaS | 203 | 84 | 12% | |
| Data & Analytics Platforms | 53 | 37 | Entain India | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 38 | 25 | Palo Alto Networks | 13% |
Narrowest
| Postings | Employers | Biggest | Their share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Network & Security Infrastructuremostly one employer | 29 | 7 | Cisco | 62% |
| Logistics & Supply Chainmostly one employer | 25 | 7 | Blue Yonder | 56% |
| E-commercemostly one employer | 41 | 12 | Amazon | 54% |
The three sectors at the narrow end are each mostly a single employer: the network vendor, the supply-chain platform and the online retailer respectively. Read those rows as that company's week rather than the sector's. At the wide end the opposite holds. No one name is anywhere near dominant, and the openings come from many separate teams.
From the widest end
Re-Advertised
The sectors most likely to be re-running a role they had already advertised.
| Postings | Reposted | Repost rate | Employers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cybersecurity | 38 | 7 | 18% | 25 |
| AI & ML Platforms | 65 | 10 | 15% | 20 |
| Hardware & Semiconductors | 93 | 12 | 13% | 20 |
| Data & Analytics Platforms | 53 | 6 | 11% | 37 |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 136 | 11 | 8% | 23 |
A repost is an employer choosing to advertise a role again. Within a single week that is a small number everywhere, so read this as a comparison between sectors rather than a level. It is a neutral fact too, and can mean a genuinely hard search or simply a listing being refreshed.
Who Was Hiring
Volume, number of separate employers, and the share of openings aimed at people just starting.
| Postings | Employers | Open to newcomers | Biggest | Their share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tech MNC | 667 | 76 | 4% | Virtusa | 41% |
| Non-tech MNCmostly one employer | 472 | 46 | 7% | Accenture | 67% |
| Established SME | 134 | 79 | 9% | YASH Technologies | 8% |
| GCC | 71 | 12 | 10% | JPMorganChase | 48% |
| MAANG | 60 | 5 | 25% | 42% | |
| Unicorn | 34 | 21 | 21% | ConnectWise | 15% |
| IT Services Majormostly one employer | 30 | 3 | 0% | TCS (Tata Group) | 93% |
| Soonicorn | 29 | 25 | 10% | HealthEdge | 7% |
Two rows here are one company wearing a category's name. The non-tech multinationals are overwhelmingly a single consultancy, and the services majors are almost entirely one firm. Read neither as a statement about the category. The row worth your attention is the mid-sized firms, which had more separate employers hiring than any other kind on the board.
What They Wanted, and Where
Different kinds of employer want different work, and they are not all looking in the same places.
| Most-wanted roles | Where | |
|---|---|---|
| Tech MNC | Backend Development20%Enterprise Platforms18%Fullstack Development16% | Bangalore32%Hyderabad27%Pune15% |
| Non-tech MNCmostly one employer | Enterprise Platforms44%Fullstack Development12%Data Engineering9% | Bangalore44%Hyderabad20%Pune12% |
| IT Services Majormostly one employer | Enterprise Platforms33%Systems & Embedded Engineering27%Backend Development20% | Kolkata47%Bangalore23%Chennai13% |
| MAANG | Systems & Embedded Engineering22%Generalist Software Engineer15%AI & LLM Applications13% | Bangalore65%Hyderabad28%Delhi NCR5% |
| GCC | AI & LLM Applications21%Backend Development18%DevOps & Platform Engineering13% | Bangalore63%Hyderabad21%Mumbai Region11% |
| Established SME | Backend Development21%Fullstack Development19%DevOps & Platform Engineering14% | Bangalore44%Hyderabad13%Delhi NCR13% |
The services majors are the one group whose hiring is not centred on the southern tech belt, with their largest share sitting in the east instead. Everyone else concentrates hard on Bangalore. Note again that this row and the non-tech multinational row are each mostly one employer, so both describe a company's preferences more than a category's.
How This Was Counted
Every figure counts job descriptions posted publicly during the week, recorded on the day they went up. The week runs short: one day carried a bulk upload from a single employer and is left out entirely. A posting is counted again only if the employer reposts it, so nothing here says a role was filled. Silence only means it was not re-advertised. Staffing-agency listings are excluded.