Original research
Top skills in India tech job posts (2026)
This report lists skills tagged on active India tech job listings synced to FeedbackAI — not a consultant forecast and not a scraped “top 100 skills” invented for SEO. Counts are how often a skill appears on live JDs in our inventory. Rankings change as jobs sync. If a table cell says data is unavailable, use /career-insights rather than treating empty cells as zero. Cite the methodology below when you quote a number.
Published 1 September 2026 · Last updated 27 October 2026
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Skills shown from live tags
2026-10-27
Snapshot date (page generated)
Who this is for
Candidates prioritising learning, hiring managers sanity-checking JD skill lists, and journalists who need a numbered source with a method — not a vibe chart.
Methodology
Limitations: tags are only as good as the JD. Duplicate postings and generic “Python” tags inflate popular languages. Glassdoor enrichment is unrelated to this table.
- Universe: active jobs on FeedbackAI that pass public listing recency rules.
- Skill = a tag on the job record (employer- or parser-supplied), counted once per job.
- Top skills = highest mention counts in the current snapshot.
- Rising skills = week-over-week count increase when a prior snapshot exists.
- We do not weight by company size, do not impute missing tags, and do not publish fabricated percentages.
Top skills on live listings
Mention counts as of the 2026-10-27 page generate (cached teaser, typically hourly).
| Skill | Job mentions | WoW delta |
|---|---|---|
| Hybrid | 752 | -131 |
| Remote | 620 | -148 |
| Data Engineering | 1 | — |
| Power BI | 1 | — |
| ETL/ELT | 1 | -1 |
Rising skills (when history exists)
Rising-skill deltas need a prior snapshot. If this table is empty, the teaser had no WoW series.
| Skill | Mentions | WoW delta |
|---|---|---|
| Not available in this build | — | — |
Jobs by city (inventory, not demand forecast)
City counts are listing locations in the same inventory — useful context, not a prediction of who will get hired.
| City | Active listings (teaser) |
|---|---|
| Bengaluru | 1127 |
| Hyderabad | 979 |
| Chennai | 918 |
| Pune | 809 |
| Noida | 741 |
| Mumbai | 682 |
| Gurugram | 676 |
| Delhi | 622 |
| Kolkata | 581 |
| Ahmedabad | 571 |
How to use this with match scores
If a rising skill appears in your gap list on a job you want, that is a learning signal. If your match is already high, apply. Trends do not override a 48% match on a JD that needs a stack you do not have.