India Early Talent Hiring Report — week of 7 September 2026. Written for talent-acquisition, campus and early-careers teams. Every figure is counted live from our database on 7 September 2026.
1. Five hiring trends this week
- Employers posted 2,39,254 early-career roles this week — +1% against last week's 2,37,399.
- Design moved fastest: 6,439 roles posted this week against 6,281 last week (+3%).
- 8,576 new candidates registered this week (+0% week on week), taking the pool to 50,360.
- 9,949 applications were submitted this week (+10% week on week).
- 44% of live internships are remote or hybrid (58,400 remote, 1,71,892 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Software Development | 24,759 | 1,08,395 |
| Data Analyst | 18,911 | 89,951 |
| Web Development | 12,564 | 69,054 |
| Finance | 10,551 | 48,892 |
| Data Science | 10,543 | 50,503 |
| Digital Marketing | 8,293 | 33,119 |
| Machine Learning | 7,650 | 35,672 |
| Human Resources | 6,046 | 20,152 |
| Cyber Security | 6,006 | 26,566 |
| Operations | 5,976 | 21,141 |
3. Candidate supply
Domain counts are the same live figures the /talent-pool pages serve.
- 50,360 registered early-career candidates
- 36,198 with a resume on file (72% of the pool)
- 31,478 active in the last 30 days
- 30,972 registered in the last 30 days
- 19,734 colleges and 1,718 cities represented
| Talent domain | Candidates | With resume |
|---|---|---|
| Data Analytics | 22,374 | 22,301 |
| Data Science | 18,427 | 18,358 |
| Software Development | 18,250 | 18,182 |
| Business Analytics | 14,882 | 14,831 |
| Machine Learning | 14,336 | 14,280 |
| Web Development | 10,580 | 10,539 |
| DevOps | 7,692 | 7,674 |
| Android & Mobile Development | 6,556 | 6,530 |
| Cloud Computing | 5,191 | 5,174 |
| Sales | 4,003 | 3,973 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AutoCAD | 723 | 2.27× |
| MATLAB | 734 | 2.12× |
| EDUCATION | 599 | 2.12× |
| MS Office | 577 | 2.12× |
| PowerPoint | 597 | 2.11× |
| Programming: Python | 595 | 2.11× |
| English | 712 | 2.1× |
| Hindi | 629 | 2.1× |
| Linux | 1,862 | 2.09× |
| REST APIs | 652 | 2.09× |
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 (5,345 applications), University (5,275 applications), Madras University (2,439 applications), D. Y. Patil University (2,439 applications), IILM University Greater Noida (2,405 applications).
| College | Candidates in pool |
|---|---|
| University | 2,174 |
| College | 1,659 |
| Institute of Technology | 771 |
| College of Engineering | 633 |
| College of Engineering and Technology | 220 |
| Institute of Engineering and Technology | 150 |
| Institute | 120 |
| UNIVERSITY | 112 |
| Institute of Information Technology | 96 |
| SRM Institute of Science and Technology | 86 |
| college | 85 |
| nitoring | 84 |
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 | 4,972 | 13,539 | 0.4 |
| Pune | 4,407 | 4,671 | 0.9 |
| Hyderabad | 3,985 | 11,314 | 0.4 |
| Chennai | 3,345 | 3,091 | 1.1 |
| Mumbai | 2,731 | 5,246 | 0.5 |
| New Delhi | 2,330 | 800 | 2.9 |
| Kolkata | 1,013 | 2,323 | 0.4 |
| Ahmedabad | 959 | 2,783 | 0.3 |
| Coimbatore | 948 | 809 | 1.2 |
| Delhi | 764 | 3,369 | 0.2 |
| Lucknow | 725 | 1,392 | 0.5 |
| Jaipur | 663 | 1,994 | 0.3 |
7. Hiring data
| Metric | Figure |
|---|---|
| Applications processed to date | 3,34,007 |
| Applications in the last 30 days | 78,722 |
| Shortlisted | 19 |
| Live roles on the platform | 6,34,586 |
| Live internships | 5,27,641 |
| Average internship stipend | ₹22,500 |
| Companies with live roles | 12,788 |
8. Companies recruiting
- Multinationals currently hiring here include Cognizant, Accenture, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, LTIMindtree, Capgemini, Tech Mahindra.
| Company | Roles posted this week |
|---|---|
| Cognizant | 1,679 |
| Tata Consultancy Services | 1,613 |
| Accenture | 1,571 |
| Infosys | 1,532 |
| Wipro | 1,336 |
| LTIMindtree | 1,239 |
| Capgemini | 1,236 |
| Tech Mahindra | 1,106 |
| HCLTech | 1,060 |
| IBM | 1,028 |
| Amazon | 980 |
| IT Services & Software Development Company | 928 |
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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 7 September 2026.