India Hiring Index November 2026: which cities and fields are hiring

Median pay: full-time jobs that state it, where at least 50 posts do. “–”: fewer posts state it.

3,887 jobs (1.7%) are with a government body, PSU, court, armed force or public university. Most government hiring runs through exams and notices that this index reads only in part, so treat this share as a floor.

Median full-time pay a year by field and experience; “–”: fewer than 50 posts state it. Each field's overall median is in the table under Fields. More pay figures, by role and city: Salaries.

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51,354 open jobs were first posted over a year ago; 31,350 of them are apprenticeships the government's Apprenticeship India portal still lists. Posts whose site shows no date are dated a week before Highlisted first found them, so they fall in “8–30 days ago”. This is the first edition. Change by field starts with the next edition, which compares each field with this one: jobs open then and now, and jobs first seen in between at employers Highlisted already read this month (so newly added employers don't count as growth).

What counts

Every job that was open on 11 November 2026 on the career sites Highlisted reads: 35,536 employer records, plus official recruitment notices and the government's Apprenticeship India, PM Internship and National Career Service portals. Highlisted re-reads each site on its own schedule and closes a job when its site drops it. Read from Highlisted's live database.

What is left out

Exam results, admit cards, answer keys and scheme news (2,298 posts); posts whose title names a hiring year long past (845); official notices past their last date or over a year old (97); jobs abroad (46); test listings (241); and 15,919 posts from 3 listing sites that are not employers (a job listing site posting the same generic roles in many cities; a home-tuition marketplace (tutoring requests, not jobs); a sarkari-result aggregator re-posting 2022 notices).

Repeat posts

The same job posted many times counts once: one role posted in many cities, an employer's near-identical re-posts, and floods of the same role in one city. 4,32,871 open posts make 2,33,754 jobs. This is the same folding Highlisted's job lists use.

Places

A job counts in every city or town it names; neighbourhoods count for their city (Andheri for Mumbai), nearby towns are their own place (Thane is not Mumbai), so city figures add up to more than the total. States follow the places.

Fields and experience

Highlisted's reader files each job under one of 32 fields from its title and description. Experience is what the post asks for; 50% of jobs state it. A post that doesn't is shown as “not stated”, unless its title says fresher or trainee.

Pay

Only pay the post states. Full-time pay a year (the middle of the range a post gives), no hourly or daily rates, no fixed scheme stipends; at most three posts per employer in any figure, and a figure only from 50 posts or more. Internship stipends are a month. For freshers that gives a median of ₹2.4 lakh a year from 2,093 posts.

Dates

A job's date is the posting date its site shows; a post with no date is dated a week before Highlisted first found it. Highlisted began reading most of these sites in early November 2026, so change over time starts with the next edition.

Employers

Records of one brand are taken together (PwC's entities, Marriott and Marriott International). 582 staffing and recruitment firms and 398 career sites known only by a code name are counted but not ranked.

Limits

This counts jobs posted online on the sites Highlisted reads, not all hiring in India: jobs filled by referral, walk-in, campus drives or exams are mostly missing. Apprenticeships (25% of jobs) stay listed on the government portal for months. The figures are the index's own; employers' own counts may differ.