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What is open right now

From OnJob's own crawl of company career pages, as of 27 Jul 2026.

Live listings

23,938

1,336 employers

Open roles in India

5,780

24% of the feed

Work from home

30%

of all live listings

Indian cities hiring

187

with an open role

Where India is hiring

Open listings by city. Full ranking.

  1. Bangalore2,112
  2. Hyderabad547
  3. Mumbai447
  4. Pune427
  5. Noida332
  6. Gurgaon312
  7. Chennai107
  8. Delhi87

Who is hiring in India

Employers by open India roles. Full ranking.

  1. Paytm216
  2. Citi208
  3. State Street206
  4. Micron203
  5. Deutsche Bank202
  6. Kyndryl199
  7. NXP Semiconductors185
  8. NVIDIA173

Global tech hiring demand, 2011–present

Hacker News runs a "Who is hiring?" thread on the first of every month, and a matching "Who wants to be hired?" thread. Counting top-level posts in each gives the longest continuous public record of tech hiring demand and candidate supply that exists — 182 months of it. It skews toward startups and the US, so read it as direction, not as an India number.

Job posts, 2026-07

437

down 4.2% vs a year ago

12-month average

492

job posts per month

All-time peak

1,222

2017-02

Demand vs supply

0.77

job posts per candidate post

Status: Needs attention
  • Companies hiring
  • Candidates seeking work
Monthly Hacker News hiring posts versus candidate posts, 2018-08 to 2026-07
Monthly Hacker News hiring posts versus candidate posts, 2018-08 to 2026-07
Point Companies hiringCandidates seeking work
#1 1,01279
#2 90667
#3 1,087103
#4 1,033146
#5 927167
2019 951239
#7 828174
#8 864222
#9 858290
#10 1,007262
#11 787207
#12 891435
#13 843253
#14 703156
#15 891363
#16 732245
#17 666240
2020 694236
#19 673217
#20 781381
#21 597503
#22 685319
#23 655297
#24 676278
#25 825405
#26 696338
#27 807279
#28 802243
#29 759263
2021 839273
#31 1,043225
#32 959217
#33 964218
#34 913231
#35 1,029211
#36 977159
#37 895214
#38 955208
#39 837189
#40 1,007231
#41 813195
2022 757224
#43 870244
#44 855246
#45 787174
#46 831264
#47 842221
#48 605233
#49 745287
#50 609290
#51 551265
#52 627300
#53 563188
2023 523381
#55 582385
#56 629384
#57 574456
#58 499355
#59 528430
#60 444346
#61 529444
#62 494381
#63 639493
#64 596370
#65 504394
2024 481459
#67 537466
#68 483429
#69 485454
#70 731452
#71 550461
#72 604487
#73 466386
#74 484420
#75 481427
#76 493357
#77 471421
2025 481378
#79 616489
#80 516471
#81 493285
#82 435367
#83 528379
#84 456364
#85 448357
#86 445353
#87 465372
#88 582435
#89 547413
2026 404405
#91 597556
#92 467429
#93 465413
#94 552557
#95 497588
2026 437566

Source: Hacker News via the Algolia Search API · as of 24 Jul 2026

India's labour market, in context

Tech hiring is a small slice of a very large labour market. These are the official national figures it sits inside — modelled ILO estimates published by the World Bank.

Unemployment rate

4.2%

World Bank, 2025

Youth unemployment

16.0%

ages 15–24, 2025

Status: Needs attention

Labour force

61.8 Cr

people, 2025

GDP growth

7.6%

2025

Status: Healthy

Source: World Bank Open Data · as of 24 Jul 2026

The rupee, and why it shows up on a jobs site

A large share of India's tech salaries are funded in dollars — global capability centres, offshore contracts and remote roles for foreign employers all price in USD. When the rupee moves, Indian pay in dollar terms moves with it, even when the CTC on the offer letter does not change.

USD → INR

96.56 up 11.7%

US dollar to Indian rupee over the past year, currently 96.56

52-week range 86.39–96.83 · ECB via Frankfurter, 2026-07-24

What technology the market is actually using

Job-ad keyword counts are easy to game and lag reality by about a year. These are usage signals instead: questions asked, packages installed, and pages read.

Most-asked-about technologies

Total Stack Overflow questions per tag. Cumulative, so it favours the long-established over the genuinely new.

  1. javascript25,30,395
  2. python22,19,548
  3. java19,20,710
  4. c#16,25,987
  5. php14,64,298
  6. android14,17,926
  7. html11,89,339
  8. c++8,17,869
  9. css8,08,787
  10. ios6,89,469
  11. sql6,75,187
  12. reactjs4,78,434

Most-installed packages

npm downloads over the last month. Install counts include CI runs, so read them as relative share rather than headcount.

  1. typescript97.0 Cr
  2. zod95.1 Cr
  3. react64.7 Cr
  4. vite62.0 Cr
  5. eslint60.5 Cr
  6. tailwindcss48.8 Cr
  7. express48.7 Cr
  8. axios46.4 Cr
  9. rxjs39.7 Cr
  10. playwright27.5 Cr

Rising interest

Year-on-year change in Wikipedia pageviews — a rough proxy for what people are trying to understand right now.

JavaScript

3,64,103 views/month

JavaScript monthly pageview trend up 273.3%

Rust

75,070 views/month

Rust monthly pageview trend up 34.6%

Artificial intelligence

8,71,873 views/month

Artificial intelligence monthly pageview trend up 20.9%

Large language models

1,68,412 views/month

Large language models monthly pageview trend up 12.6%

DevOps

33,213 views/month

DevOps monthly pageview trend up 10.4%

Kubernetes

37,470 views/month

Kubernetes monthly pageview trend up 7.0%

India in orbit

India's space programme is one of the country's larger engineering employers and a direct pipeline into aerospace, embedded and materials roles. 2 of the next 25 launches worldwide are Indian.

Next Indian launch

GSLV Mk II | GISAT-1A (EOS-05)

GSLV Mk. II · Indian Space Research Organization · 30 Sept 2026, 12:00 am IST

Source: The Space Devs, Launch Library 2 · as of 24 Jul 2026

How this page is built

Job counts come from OnJob's own crawl of company career pages and applicant tracking systems. They count listings open at capture time, which measures standing demand rather than hiring flow.

We deliberately do not plot our own feed over time yet. A feed of currently-open jobs loses roles as they get filled, so charting it by posting date produces a decline that looks like a hiring collapse and is really just listings ageing out. Our own dated series began on 23 July 2026 — see hiring momentum for the part we can already measure honestly. Until it is long enough to mean something, anything here with a time axis comes from a source that already has real history.

External sources in this build

All figures on this page are free to reuse with attribution under CC BY 4.0.

Questions

Is the tech job market growing or shrinking right now?

Global tech hiring volume is down 4.2% year on year. The Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread — the longest continuous public record of tech hiring, running since 2011-03 — carried 437 job posts in 2026-07, against a trailing 12-month average of 492 and an all-time peak of 1,222 in 2017-02. On OnJob's own feed we are tracking 23,938 live listings from 1,336 employers, 5,780 of them in India.

Which Indian cities have the most tech jobs?

By live listing volume on OnJob in July 2026, Bangalore leads with 2,112 open roles, followed by Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune. These are listings open at capture time, so they measure standing demand rather than hiring flow.

How many people are unemployed in India?

India's headline unemployment rate is 4.2% (World Bank, 2025 modelled ILO estimate). Youth unemployment runs far higher at 16.0%, which is the figure that matters most for fresher hiring, against a total labour force of 61.8 Cr people.

What does this monitor measure, and where does the data come from?

This page combines OnJob's own live job feed with free public data sources — flagcdn.com, Frankfurter (European Central Bank), GitHub REST API, Hacker News (Algolia Search API), layoffs.fyi (via frankwang0909/tech-layoff-tracker mirror), npm registry download counts, Stack Exchange API, The Space Devs — Launch Library 2, Wikimedia Pageviews API, World Bank Open Data, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Finance — refreshed on a schedule. Job counts are computed from listings open at capture time. External figures carry their own source and date. We do not draw a trend line from our own feed until enough dated observations exist, because a feed of currently-open jobs decays as roles get filled, and plotting that decay would look like a hiring collapse that never happened.

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