2026 Data Report

The State of IT Jobs & Salaries in India

We analysed 25,101 live technology & IT jobs across 910 companies hiring in India — here's what the data says about where the roles are, and what they pay.

25,101live tech jobs
910companies hiring
8+major cities
12%remote roles

💰 What tech roles pay in India

Median annual CTC by role, aggregated from crowdsourced salary data (AmbitionBox) across hundreds of companies.
Engineering Manager
₹65.1L
Senior Software Engineer
₹33.2L
Product Manager
₹30.3L
Data Scientist
₹26.2L
Data Engineer
₹23.4L
Software Engineer
₹19.1L
DevOps / SRE
₹16.3L
UI/UX Designer
₹13.0L
Data Analyst
₹11.6L
QA / Test Engineer
₹9.1L
💡 A Software Engineer in India earns a median ₹19.1L, rising to ₹33.2L at senior level and ₹65.1L for Engineering Managers. Data & Product roles command a strong premium over QA and analytics.

🏆 Highest-paying tech employers

Top reported average CTC for a role at each company (min. 100 salary reports).
Morgan Stanley
₹95L
Uber
₹73L
Atlassian
₹71L
Adobe
₹65L
Microsoft
₹63L
Linkedin Technology Information Pvt Ltd
₹62L
Rippling
₹62L
Google
₹59L
ServiceNow
₹52L
Fractal Analytics
₹50L

📍 Where the jobs are

Top hiring cities by live tech job count.
Bengaluru
6,583
Hyderabad
2,121
Pune
1,702
Delhi NCR
1,666
Mumbai
1,649
Chennai
1,371
Kolkata
227
Kochi
85
Bengaluru alone accounts for 26% of all live tech roles — more than the next two cities combined. Delhi NCR and Hyderabad round out the top three.

🧑‍💻 Jobs by function

Live openings across the main tech functions.
Engineering
8,902
Sales & CS
1,711
Marketing
828
Product
784
Data & AI
669
Design
354
QA
57

🔥 Who's hiring the most

Companies with the most live tech openings right now.
TCS
4,151
HCL Tech
2,217
Databricks
791
Infosys
591
Birlasoft
577
Wipro
560
Google
545
Stripe
491
Zensar
469
Persistent Systems
468
OpenAI
455
JPMorgan Chase
424

See it all on one map

Every one of these 25,101 jobs — plotted across India by city, filterable by role, with real salary bands and company ratings.

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Methodology. Figures are computed from 25,101 live technology & IT job listings aggregated on HireHire (updated every 8 hours), across 910 companies hiring in India. Only roles posted within the last 90 days are counted. Salary figures are median annual CTC estimates from crowdsourced employee-reported data (AmbitionBox) and are indicative, not guarantees. Last updated: July 2026.
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