What job postings in India leave out

We read the career sites of more than a thousand companies hiring in India. Almost none name a salary, very few will take a fresher, and four in five roles sit on software most job seekers never search.

21 September 2026 · 6 minute read

Every few hours we read the careers pages and hiring APIs of more than a thousand companies recruiting in India, and store what they publish. At any moment that is somewhere around ninety thousand open roles. Not a sample, not a survey: the postings themselves, exactly as each employer wrote them.

Reading all of them at once shows you something no single listing can, which is how much employers leave out, and how consistently. The proportions below have been stable enough to be worth writing down. The counts behind them change every few hours, so we have left them out on purpose.

Almost nobody tells you the pay

Fewer than one posting in a hundred states compensation. The rest expect you to read the role, judge whether it is worth your afternoon, write an application, and possibly sit two rounds of interviews before anyone mentions money.

This is worth naming plainly because the advice given to candidates rarely accounts for it. You are told to research the band before applying. For almost every role open in India right now there is nothing published to research. The number you eventually hear is set in a conversation, not on a page, and the candidate who does not ask early spends weeks finding that out.

The fresher gap is worse than it looks

Under two postings in a hundred state that zero years of experience is acceptable. Sorted by the minimum experience each posting asks for, the market looks like this:

The largest group states nothing at all, which is its own problem. Two postings in five give a candidate no way to tell whether applying is realistic. A graduate reading that list has a small set of roles that clearly want them, a very large set that might, and no way to separate the two without applying to find out.

Three to five years being the most common stated requirement is the shape of the Indian market in one line. Employers are competing hardest for people who have already been trained somewhere else.

Remote work is rarer than the conversation suggests

Most postings do not say where the work happens at all. Among those that do, the split is not close:

Under one in twenty. If your search assumes remote is a normal option that simply needs filtering for, you are searching inside a twentieth of the market and concluding that hiring is slow. It is not slow. It is in an office, usually in Bengaluru.

Where the jobs actually are

Bengaluru on its own carries roughly as many open roles as Pune, Mumbai and Hyderabad put together. The gap between first and second place is wider than the entire Hyderabad market.

Four in five jobs sit where nobody looks

Employers do not publish jobs directly. They publish into whatever recruiting system they bought, and that system decides what the posting looks like and where it can be found. Sorted by platform, the market is extraordinarily concentrated:

Oracle Cloud HCM and Workday together carry four roles in every five. These are the systems large banks, manufacturers, consultancies and hospitals run on, and their career sites are close to invisible: no shared search, no aggregated index, a separate site per employer, each one loading its listings through an API a search engine has no reason to call.

This is the practical finding. Candidates search the places built to be searched, which are the startup-facing boards, and those hold a small minority of what is actually open. The Greenhouse and Lever postings everyone sees are a rounding error next to the two enterprise platforms nobody browses.

How this was counted

These figures come from postings we fetch directly from each employer's own careers system, not from a third-party index, and cover roles located in India. Closed roles are removed continuously, so the set is what is genuinely open rather than an archive.

Everything above is stated as a proportion, rounded. Absolute counts move every time the board is refreshed, and a number published once is simply wrong a day later. The shares are what has held steady, so the shares are what we have published.

The corpus is not exclusively engineering. It is every role these employers published, which includes the banking, healthcare and operations roles that large Indian employers post in volume. Read the figures as describing white-collar hiring in India broadly, not the software market on its own.