India Early Talent Hiring Report — week of 24 August 2026. Written for talent-acquisition, campus and early-careers teams. Every figure is counted live from our database on 24 August 2026.
1. Five hiring trends this week
- Employers posted 17,615 early-career roles this week — -54% against last week's 38,302.
- Operations moved fastest: 616 roles posted this week against 677 last week (-9%).
- 6,931 new candidates registered this week (+31% week on week), taking the pool to 33,208.
- 7,353 applications were submitted this week.
- 45% of live internships are remote or hybrid (45,136 remote, 1,46,032 hybrid) — the widest sourcing radius is still the cheapest lever on fill rate.
2. Top internship roles posted this week
Ranked by postings created in the last seven days.
| Role / function | Postings | Openings |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 950 | 8,160 |
| Software Development | 751 | 6,373 |
| Finance | 600 | 5,165 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 579 | 4,743 |
| Cyber Security | 539 | 4,618 |
| Digital Marketing | 481 | 3,935 |
| Data Analyst | 439 | 3,793 |
| Human Resources | 391 | 3,330 |
| Manufacturing & Quality | 331 | 2,810 |
| Data Science | 318 | 2,637 |
3. Candidate supply
Domain counts are the same live figures the /talent-pool pages serve.
- 33,208 registered early-career candidates
- 24,476 with a resume on file (74% of the pool)
- 22,603 active in the last 30 days
- 22,339 registered in the last 30 days
- 13,972 colleges and 1,296 cities represented
| Talent domain | Candidates | With resume |
|---|---|---|
| Data Analytics | 15,580 | 15,517 |
| Data Science | 12,953 | 12,891 |
| Software Development | 12,848 | 12,789 |
| Business Analytics | 10,400 | 10,353 |
| Machine Learning | 10,236 | 10,185 |
| Web Development | 7,428 | 7,390 |
| DevOps | 5,391 | 5,376 |
| Android & Mobile Development | 4,648 | 4,625 |
| Cloud Computing | 3,627 | 3,615 |
| Sales | 3,006 | 2,980 |
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.
| Skill | Recent candidates | Lift vs pool |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 498 | 2.09× |
| Programming Languages: Python | 662 | 2.08× |
| English | 552 | 2.08× |
| AutoCAD | 488 | 2.08× |
| Programming: Python | 400 | 2.08× |
| EDUCATION | 445 | 2.07× |
| 2 of 2 | 397 | 2.07× |
| MATLAB | 546 | 2.05× |
| 1 of 1 | 1,188 | 2.04× |
| PowerPoint | 456 | 2.04× |
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 (9,586 applications), University (8,163 applications), Madras University (5,081 applications), D. Y. Patil University (4,872 applications), IIIT Bangalore (4,867 applications).
| College | Candidates in pool |
|---|---|
| University | 1,422 |
| College | 1,050 |
| Institute of Technology | 519 |
| College of Engineering | 412 |
| College of Engineering and Technology | 136 |
| Institute of Engineering and Technology | 95 |
| UNIVERSITY | 75 |
| Institute | 74 |
| Institute of Information Technology | 68 |
| SRM Institute of Science and Technology | 58 |
| COLLEGE | 56 |
| college | 55 |
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.
| City | Candidates | Live roles | Candidates per role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bengaluru | 2,981 | 12,821 | 0.2 |
| Pune | 2,879 | 3,995 | 0.7 |
| Hyderabad | 2,317 | 4,078 | 0.6 |
| Chennai | 1,982 | 2,464 | 0.8 |
| Mumbai | 1,801 | 4,559 | 0.4 |
| New Delhi | 1,526 | 800 | 1.9 |
| Kolkata | 636 | 1,689 | 0.4 |
| Ahmedabad | 607 | 1,641 | 0.4 |
| Coimbatore | 548 | 178 | 3.1 |
| Delhi | 489 | 2,397 | 0.2 |
| Lucknow | 439 | 735 | 0.6 |
| Nagpur | 402 | 134 | 3 |
7. Hiring data
| Metric | Figure |
|---|---|
| Applications processed to date | 3,15,001 |
| Applications in the last 30 days | 1,15,531 |
| Shortlisted | 16 |
| Live roles on the platform | 5,23,779 |
| Live internships | 4,25,634 |
| Average internship stipend | ₹23,500 |
| Companies with live roles | 10,207 |
8. Companies recruiting
- Multinationals currently hiring here include Cognizant, Accenture, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, LTIMindtree, Capgemini, Tech Mahindra.
| Company | Roles posted this week |
|---|---|
| Bosch | 210 |
| Mahindra & Mahindra | 206 |
| ZF | 171 |
| Bajaj Auto | 165 |
| Dhoot Transmission | 147 |
| Skoda Auto Volkswagen India | 130 |
| Belrise Industries | 123 |
| GE India Industrial | 120 |
| Dana | 90 |
| Forvia | 87 |
| Varroc | 84 |
| Harman | 72 |
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This report is written for hiring teams. Candidates looking for an internship should start at myinternships.in/internships.
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 24 August 2026.