Hiring panelsector-panel-v1 · 15 Oct 2026
What is hiring in India, by sector
Read from employer hiring systems directly, not from job boards, and re-checked at the source. Every figure carries the number of roles behind it.
Still advertised is the share of that sector's closed roles still sitting in the employer's own feed, from the Ghost Job Index. This page says what is open; that one says whether to believe it. A dash means the index withheld the sector for too few observations, not that the sector is clean.
BFSI
- Live roles
- 24,170
- Employers
- 37
- Role families
- 183
- Still advertised
- 48%
77% posted in the last 30 days18,485 of 24,170
Most-hired roles
- Banking Services5,881
- General Finance3,835
- Business Operations2,050
- General Sales Practices1,401
- General Lending929
- Customer Service747
Most-asked skills
- Communication10,854
- Banking9,497
- Sales9,204
- Banking Products6,272
- Customer Service5,907
- Operations4,844
- Financial Services4,349
- Legislation4,119
Consulting & Professional Services
- Live roles
- 17,300
- Employers
- 27
- Role families
- 229
- Still advertised
- 7%
75% posted in the last 30 days13,032 of 17,300
Most-hired roles
- Business Analysis1,635
- Business Operations1,595
- Software Development1,472
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)976
- Project Management833
- Business Management640
Most-asked skills
- Business Requirements2,891
- Consulting2,472
- Communication2,409
- SQL (Programming Language)1,961
- Artificial Intelligence1,861
- Technology Solutions1,810
- Root Cause Analysis1,695
- Python (Programming Language)1,632
Technology
- Live roles
- 4,685
- Employers
- 69
- Role families
- 204
- Still advertised
- 20%
50% posted in the last 30 days2,340 of 4,685
Most-hired roles
- Computer Science596
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)587
- Electrical and Computer Engineering273
- Software Development256
- Scripting Languages240
- Business Operations124
Most-asked skills
- Python (Programming Language)1,335
- Computer Science980
- Communication914
- Artificial Intelligence712
- C++ (Programming Language)662
- Electrical Engineering565
- Software Development491
- Java (Programming Language)475
Diversified
- Live roles
- 2,396
- Employers
- 54
- Role families
- 203
- Still advertised
- 27%
52% posted in the last 30 days1,246 of 2,396
Most-hired roles
- Business Operations167
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)139
- Software Development113
- Computer Science103
- Project Management93
- Business Analysis80
Most-asked skills
- Communication419
- Python (Programming Language)303
- Collaboration226
- Computer Science198
- SQL (Programming Language)197
- Operations182
- Stakeholder Management181
- Innovation178
Consumer & Retail
- Live roles
- 1,621
- Employers
- 16
- Role families
- 162
- Still advertised
- 23%
53% posted in the last 30 days862 of 1,621
Most-hired roles
- Business Operations206
- Project Management75
- General Finance70
- Agriculture and Crop Farming55
- General Sales Practices49
- Business Management48
Most-asked skills
- Business Objectives288
- Sales214
- Communication206
- Real Estate198
- Financial Services192
- Hormone Replacement Therapy186
- Stakeholder Management172
- Agriculture163
Manufacturing & Industrial
- Live roles
- 1,565
- Employers
- 9
- Role families
- 157
- Still advertised
- —
64% posted in the last 30 days1,004 of 1,565
Most-hired roles
- General Finance111
- Project Management107
- Litigation and Civil Justice94
- Computer Science78
- Software Development77
- Business Operations74
Most-asked skills
- Communication468
- Negotiation223
- Domain Knowledge189
- Python (Programming Language)175
- Electrical Engineering163
- Automation154
- Stakeholder Management150
- Project Management146
Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Live roles
- 595
- Employers
- 7
- Role families
- 97
- Still advertised
- —
62% posted in the last 30 days368 of 595
Most-hired roles
- Business Operations44
- Market Analysis40
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)32
- Regulation and Legal Compliance25
- Quality Assurance and Control23
- Project Management22
Most-asked skills
- Stakeholder Management97
- Communication70
- Regulatory Requirements65
- Operational Excellence63
- Track (Rail Transport)57
- Python (Programming Language)52
- Diversity And Inclusion50
- Project Management48
Energy & Resources
- Live roles
- 434
- Employers
- 6
- Role families
- 66
- Still advertised
- —
58% posted in the last 30 days251 of 434
Most-hired roles
- Computer Science45
- Project Management43
- Business Operations41
- Quality Assurance and Control31
- Process Improvement and Optimization29
- Equipment Repair and Maintenance24
Most-asked skills
- Logistics151
- Operational Efficiency143
- Issuer140
- APL (Programming Language)119
- Electrical Engineering96
- Operations95
- Digitization83
- Communication67
What this does not cover
- 8 sectors are published of 10 tracked, covering 52,766 of 52,939 live roles. A sector appears only with at least 100 live roles and 5 employers. Below that a panel describes a handful of postings at one company.
- This is a panel of tracked employers, not a census of Indian hiring. It is deep rather than wide, and a sector's numbers move when we add an employer as well as when the market does.
- A listing with no sector on it is excluded rather than bucketed into an "Other" row. Unclassified is missing data, not a sector.