Tech hiring consistently above pre-pandemic levels
Mumbai, 5th March 2021: Data from Indeed, the world’s #1 job site indicates that tech job postings in India were up 13% in January 2021 from a year ago, in January 2020. A study of tech job postings on the platform, a real-time indicator of labour market activity in India, shows that hiring in tech roles between April 2020 and January 2021 was consistently above pre-pandemic levels, peaking 17% in November 2020.
Indeed also assessed the fastest growing tech roles in India and companies actively hiring for these roles from 2020 – 2021.
Top 10 fastest-rising tech jobs in India:
| Sl no | Job Title |
| 1 | Application Developer |
| 2 | IT Security Specialist |
| 3 | Salesforce Developer |
| 4 | Site Reliability Engineer |
| 5 | Cloud Engineer |
| 6 | Business Intelligence Developer |
| 7 | Sap Consultant |
| 8 | Senior Quality Assurance Engineer |
| 9 | Technical Consultant |
| 10 | Automation Engineer |
Top 10 companies hiring for these roles in January 2021:
Hiring for tech roles was primarily driven by IT, ITeS, financial services, e-commerce, and consulting sectors. Companies that accounted for maximum hiring in this space are:
| Sl no | Companies |
| 1 | Accenture |
| 2 | JP Morgan Chase |
| 3 | Ernst & Young |
| 4 | Oracle |
| 5 | Genpact |
| 6 | Wells Fargo |
| 7 | Cognizant Technology Solutions |
| 8 | IBM |
| 9 | Wipro |
| 10 | Capgemini |
Top paying tech roles in India in 2020 – 2021
| S No. | Job Title |
| 1 | Software Architect |
| 2 | Technical Lead |
| 3 | Cloud Engineer |
| 4 | Senior Software Engineer |
| 5 | Full Stack Developer |
“With the pandemic necessitating ‘remote working’ and more technology-based business operations, organizations have had to ramp up their tech hiring to support this transition. This is reflected in our data, which shows a steady upward shift. We believe that digitization and ‘virtual’ operations will continue to increase in the near future, creating a strong demand for tech-related jobs across sectors,” said Sashi Kumar, Managing Director, Indeed.
