We analysed 16,850 live technology & IT jobs across 1,491 companies hiring in India — here's what the data says about where the roles are, and what they pay.
India's technology job market in 2026 is bigger, more distributed, and more polarised than it has ever been. To cut through the anecdotes, HireHire analysed every one of the 16,850 live tech & IT roles currently on our platform — across 1,491 companies — alongside crowdsourced compensation data for hundreds of employers. This report is what the numbers say: what roles actually pay, which cities and companies are hiring hardest, and what it all means if you're planning your next move.
Compensation is the first question on every job seeker's mind, so we'll start there. The chart below shows the median annual CTC for the ten most common tech roles in India, aggregated from hundreds of companies' employee-reported salary data.
The headline is the steepness of the curve. A software engineer's median roughly jumps 74% by senior level and more than triples into engineering management — one of the widest individual-contributor-to-manager spreads of any major market. The second signal is the premium on data and product skills: Data Scientists (₹26.2L) and Product Managers (₹30.3L) out-earn generalist engineers, while QA and analytics roles anchor the bottom near ₹9.1L. For anyone early in their career, the data makes a clear argument: specialise toward data/AI or move into product.
Top pay clusters around product companies, global capability centres and fintech firms rather than IT-services giants. Morgan Stanley leads at an average ₹95L for its best-paid role, followed by Uber and Atlassian.
Note what's missing from this list: the companies hiring the most people (further down) are largely not the ones paying the most. That gap — volume at the services firms, top-of-market pay at product and finance companies — is the defining tension of India's tech job market, and it should shape where you aim depending on whether you're optimising for pay or for opportunity.
Tech hiring in India remains heavily concentrated. A handful of metros dominate, with the top three cities accounting for roughly 62% of all live roles.
For job seekers this cuts both ways. The deepest markets — and the fiercest competition — are in Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, while emerging hubs like Pune, Chennai, Mumbai offer less competition and a lower cost of living. Browse openings city by city, starting with tech jobs in Bengaluru or the full IT jobs in India hub.
Engineering is, unsurprisingly, the engine of tech hiring — but the mix around it tells you where the market is heading.
Engineering is the largest category at 53% of openings, but Data & AI is the fastest-growing specialism and carries the salary premium we saw earlier. Sales & customer-success roles rank second overall — a useful reminder that a "tech job" isn't only writing code. Jump into engineering, data & AI or product roles across India.
Finally, sheer volume — the companies with the most live openings on HireHire right now.
The leaderboard is topped by India's IT-services majors — TCS, Infosys, Capgemini — each with hundreds to thousands of open roles, alongside global product companies like Amazon, Google. High volume makes these the best places to start a broad search; you can explore any of them in the companies directory.
1. Specialise toward data, AI and product. The salary curve rewards it — these roles out-earn generalist engineering and are growing fastest.
2. Use location as leverage. Bengaluru has the most roles but also the most competition; emerging hubs and the 5% of roles that are remote widen your options considerably.
3. Separate pay from volume. The companies hiring the most aren't the ones paying the most. Target product and fintech firms for compensation, services firms for opportunity and speed of hiring.
4. Negotiate with data. Walk into every conversation knowing the median band for your role and level from the chart above — it's the single cheapest raise you can give yourself.
Ready to act on it? Browse 16,850 live IT jobs in India, or explore them visually on the HireHire job map.
Based on crowdsourced data across hundreds of companies, the median annual CTC for a Software Engineer in India is around ₹19.1L, rising to about ₹33.2L at senior level and ₹65.1L for Engineering Managers. Data Scientists (₹26.2L) and Product Managers (₹30.3L) command a premium over generalist and QA roles.
Bengaluru leads by a wide margin with 6,832 live tech roles — roughly 41% of all openings. Together, Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad account for about 62% of India's tech jobs.
Among employers with enough reported data, Morgan Stanley tops the list at an average ₹95L for its best-paid role, ahead of firms like Uber and Atlassian. The highest pay clusters around product companies, global capability centres and fintech — not the largest-volume services firms.
About 5% of the live tech roles on HireHire are remote or work-from-home. The majority are still on-site or hybrid, concentrated in the major metros.
TCS currently has the most live openings, followed by Infosys and Capgemini. India's IT-services majors dominate hiring volume, while global product companies lead on pay.
Among common roles, Engineering Manager is the highest-paid at a median of about ₹65.1L, followed by Senior Software Engineer (₹33.2L). Specialising toward data, AI or product leadership is the clearest path to top-of-market pay.
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