India Early Talent Hiring Report — Week of 4 August 2026

India Early Talent Hiring Report — week of 4 August 2026. Written for talent-acquisition, campus and early-careers teams. Every figure is counted live from our database on 4 August 2026.

With 296,179 live roles and 225,976 live internships active, application volume reached 15,495 this week. New roles added dropped to 4,953 from 31,115 last week. Talent supply remains concentrated in key cities where candidate-to-role ratios indicate intense hiring competition. Bengaluru shows 12,432 roles against 1,140 candidates, yielding 0.1 candidates per role. Mumbai and Hyderabad both record 0.2 candidates per role across 4,468 and 4,012 open positions. Additionally, 117 MNCs account for 96,377 open roles, while remote roles hold a 41 percent share and average stipends stand at 21,500.

Across the pool of 16,113 candidates, 12,777 have attached resumes. Demand remains heaviest in Engineering with 897 openings across 295 postings, followed by Design with 796 openings. Domain breakdown places Data Analytics first with 8,780 candidates, followed by Data Science with 7,432 and Software Development with 7,369 candidates. Top candidate skills include Python at 5,603 candidates, SQL at 5,353 candidates, and Excel at 3,958 candidates. Aligning headcount allocation with these domain profiles will help sustain campus recruitment targets.

1. Five hiring trends this week

• Employers posted 4,953 early-career roles this week.
• 4,127 new candidates registered this week, taking the pool to 16,113.
• 15,495 applications were submitted this week — an average of 0.5 applications per live opening (-44% week on week).
• 41% of live internships are remote or hybrid (11,797 remote, 79,913 hybrid) — the widest sourcing radius is still the cheapest lever on fill rate.
• 117 multinational employers are live on the platform with 96,377 open early-career roles between them.

2. Top internship roles posted this week

Ranked by postings created in the last seven days.

3. Candidate supply

Domain counts are the same live figures the /talent-pool pages serve.

• 16,113 registered early-career candidates
• 12,777 with a resume on file (79% of the pool)
• 11,123 active in the last 30 days
• 10,956 registered in the last 30 days
• 7,843 colleges and 753 cities represented

4. Emerging skills

Skills over-represented among candidates who registered in the last 60 days, compared with the pool as a whole. Lift above 1.0 means the skill is growing.

5. Colleges

Where the pool actually comes from — useful when you are picking campuses to target this season.

• Most active in the last 30 days: College (17,947 applications), University (17,300 applications), Madras University (9,534 applications), College Of Engineering | Hyderabad (9,242 applications), University of Delhi (8,975 applications).

6. Cities — supply against demand

Candidates per live role. A high number means abundant supply; a low number means you are competing for the same shortlist.

7. Hiring data

8. Companies recruiting

• Multinationals currently hiring here include Accenture, Cognizant, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, Capgemini, LTIMindtree, Tech Mahindra.

How these numbers are produced

Every figure in this edition is queried from the MyInternships.in production database at generation time — live listings, registered candidate profiles and real applications. Week-on-week movement compares the last seven days with the seven before them. Where a slice is too thin to rank meaningfully, we say so rather than publish a number that cannot carry weight. This edition was generated automatically on 4 August 2026.