Job creation in India outpaces other countries, but still lower than last year: Indeed data
Indian job postings
rebounded strongly in May, up 8.9 per cent , following eight consecutive monthly declines, according to data from
hiring
platform Indeed.
However, they are 1.8 per cent lower than a year ago and around 16 per cent below their peak. Despite trending downwards recently, Indian job postings are almost 80 per cent above pre-pandemic levels, ranking highly compared with other major markets for the platform, although it isn't a like-for-like comparison.
Several countries, led by the UK, New Zealand and Switzerland, have posted volumes that are currently below pre-pandemic levels. By comparison, India's posting volumes are healthy.
'Indian
job creation
continues to outpace other countries because of the nation's transition towards more formal economic arrangements,' said Callam Pickering, Indeed's APAC senior economist. 'As the nation transitions, job creation across the formal sector will be much stronger than overall
employment
growth nationwide, and we have consistently seen that in recent years. Other economies are not going through a transition of this nature.'
Job postings in around 80 per cent of occupations in India increased over the past three months. Gains were the largest in childcare (+27 per cent ), personal care and home health (+25 per cent ), education (+24 per cent ), and production and manufacturing (+22 per cent ). These gains more than offset some weakness in sectors like dental opportunities, down 10.2 per cent over the past three months, along with agriculture and forestry (-8.6 per cent ), community and social service (-6.8 per cent ) and software development (-4.2 per cent ).
While software development opportunities have declined recently, the sector continues to have the largest volume of job opportunities on Indeed, accounting for around one-in-five Indian job postings. It highlights how prominent the tech sector has been in India's emerging formal sector, with multinationals trying to tap into India's large talent pool.
Further, the data shows that, as of May 2025, 1.5 per cent of Indian job postings explicitly mentioned
generative AI
in their job descriptions, more than doubling over the past year.
Generative AI opportunities are concentrated in the tech sector but are increasingly widespread. Around 12.5 per cent of data analytics roles mention generative AI, ahead of software development (3.6 per cent ) and scientific research (3.1 per cent ). It's also commonly mentioned across a range of office roles, including marketing (1.1 per cent of job postings) and management (0.9 per cent ).
Regional hubs have emerged for jobs that either use or help develop generative AI. In Karnataka, 2.4 per cent of job postings mention generative AI, just ahead of 2.3 per cent in Telangana. Maharashtra has the second-largest volume of generative AI opportunities and the largest volume of total job opportunities, but it's mentioned in just 1 per cent of job postings.
Job creation across India's formal sector remains strong and rose sharply during May. This continues to facilitate a shift from lower-productivity to higher-productivity work as workers transition into the sector. While there is no shortage of workers in India, finding the right set of skills continues to be challenging in some cases.
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