India hiring report, November 2026: who is hiring, where and for what

On the morning of 14 November 2026, Jobs Hindustan held 8,045 live openings in India, read directly from the careers sites of 103 large employers. This report sets out what those openings show. It is a snapshot of big-company hiring, not of the whole Indian job market, and the limits are spelled out at the end.

The short version

• Almost half of all openings (3,981) are in Bengaluru. No other city comes close.
• Software and data roles make up just over half of everything on offer.
• Three employers, Amazon, Citi and Bosch, account for more than a third of the openings.
• Employers want experience. Where an advert states a minimum, the middle figure is five years, and only about 1 in 18 openings is open to freshers.
• Fully work-from-home roles are rare: 310 out of 8,045, under 4%.

Where the jobs are

Bengaluru has 3,981 openings, 49% of the total, from 86 different employers. Hyderabad is second with 1,097, followed by Mumbai (862), Pune (760), Gurugram (429) and Chennai (363). A job advertised in two cities is counted in both, so these add up to slightly more than the total.

The cities are not smaller copies of each other. Each has its own character:

• Bengaluru is broad. Amazon (784), Bosch (361), Cisco (136) and JPMorgan Chase (132) lead, and software alone accounts for 1,668 openings.
• Hyderabad leans on one employer: Amazon has 387 of the city's 1,097 openings, about a third. Micron is next with 110.
• Mumbai is the only large city where finance, not software, is the biggest field. Citi (195), JPMorgan Chase (120) and Deutsche Bank (60) set the tone.
• Pune depends on Citi more than any city depends on any employer: 358 of its 760 openings, nearly half.

By state, Karnataka (4,001), Maharashtra (1,652) and Telangana (1,141) hold 84% of the openings. At the other end, twelve states and union territories have no office-based opening from any of the 103 employers today, and ten more have fewer than ten. If you live outside the big metros, the realistic options at these companies are relocation or one of the few work-from-home roles.

What employers are hiring for

Software and IT is the largest field with 2,983 openings (37%). Data, AI and analytics adds 1,167 (15%). Together they are 52% of the total. Finance, banking and accounting follows with 601, then operations and supply chain (530), product and design (475) and sales (420).

Hiring is concentrated. Amazon alone has 1,566 openings, about one in five. Citi has 828 and Bosch 522. The top five employers, adding IBM (284) and JPMorgan Chase (270), hold 43% of all openings. Banks and financial services firms taken together have slightly more openings (1,606) than Amazon does, which says something about how much back-office and technology work global banks now run from India.

Experience: the middle of the market is five years

6,183 of the 8,045 adverts state a minimum number of years. Among those:

Nearly half ask for six years or more. For someone with three to five years behind them this is a good market. For someone starting out it is a narrow one.

Freshers: few doors, and most of them at two companies

445 openings are internships, trainee roles or jobs asking for up to a year of experience. That is 5.5% of the total. Amazon has 185 of them and Citi 75, so those two employers account for well over half. By field, software (96) and operations (90) offer the most. By city, Bengaluru has 182, then Mumbai (54), Hyderabad (51), Chennai (38) and Gurugram (38).

The practical lesson: a fresher who applies only through the careers sites of large companies is fishing in a small pond. Campus hiring, smaller firms and referrals do not show up in this data and matter more at this stage. Our fresher job guide covers where else to look.

Work from home

Only 310 openings are marked fully remote. Two employers, GSK (82) and Amazon (81), supply more than half of them. Another 1,107 are marked hybrid. Most adverts, 6,279 of them, do not state a work mode at all, which in practice usually means the office. Anyone advertising large numbers of easy work-from-home jobs at big companies is not describing what these companies actually publish. See our guide to genuine work-from-home jobs.

Skills employers name most

Across all 8,045 adverts, Python is named most often (1,842 adverts, 23%), then SQL (1,404), Excel (1,330), AWS (1,246) and Agile (1,236). Generative AI appears in 1,178 adverts, about one in seven, which puts it ahead of Java (997).

In data and AI roles the picture is sharper: Python is in 54% of adverts, and SQL and generative AI are in 41% each. In software roles no single skill dominates. Python (28%), CI/CD (26%), AWS (25%) and Java (24%) are roughly level, so breadth counts for more than any one language.

Excel being third overall is worth noticing. It is the most-named skill in finance roles (237 of 601) and in sales roles too. It is still the most widely useful tool outside engineering.

How fresh the adverts are

1,387 openings (17%) were posted by the employer in the last seven days. Half (4,026) have been open for more than 30 days, and 1,597 for more than 90. An old advert is not necessarily a dead one, since large employers often keep one advert open for repeated hiring, but a job posted this week is the better use of an evening.

Two weeks of movement

We began keeping daily counts on 1 November 2026. The total stood at 8,313 that day, rose to 8,513 on 5 November and has drifted down to 8,045, about 3% lower than where it started. Within that, IBM's openings fell from 362 to 284, while Bosch (492 to 522), JPMorgan Chase (245 to 270) and Citi (810 to 828) added roles. Two weeks is too short to call a trend, and daily counts also move when an employer's careers site cannot be read on a given morning. We will compare month with month in the next report.

What this report can and cannot tell you

• It covers 103 large employers. Most are multinationals and large Indian companies. Small firms, government jobs, campus hiring and jobs filled through agencies are not in it.
• Bengaluru's share is partly a result of who we track. Technology and banking employers cluster there. The pattern is real, but a list weighted towards manufacturing or retail would look different.
• Jobs are sorted automatically into fields and experience bands from their titles and adverts. Some are sorted wrongly, and 715 could not be placed in a field at all.
• Pay is missing. None of the 8,045 openings came with a salary in the data employers publish, so this report says nothing about pay.
• On the morning of the snapshot our system reached 80 of the 104 careers systems it reads, so some employers are under-counted.

Every figure here comes from the openings listed on Jobs Hindustan at 5:47 am IST on 14 November 2026. Read how we check every job, or see the live numbers for any role on the who is hiring pages.