The Hiring Pulse.
The quarterly step back from the monthly noise. Where GCC hiring is actually heading across sectors, levels, and cities, and the structural shifts the month-to-month numbers hide. Built so a leadership team can plan a quarter ahead, not just react to the last one.
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Q2 2026 · Apr–Jun
Q2 2026 · Apr–Jun
Confidence hit a 16-year high — and the bottleneck moved from demand to AI skill supply.
India's GCC hiring quarter, read in three findings. April opened strong, May held steady with the value shifting up into AI and senior bands, and the market's constraint is no longer whether employers want to hire — it's whether the skill exists to hire. Here's what the quarter did, and the decision each finding hands you.
- 01 Employer confidence is at a 16-year high. India's Net Employment Outlook hit 68% — the strongest reading since the survey began in 2008, and the highest of any country surveyed.
- 02 GCCs out-hired IT services again. GCCs added roughly 200,000 net employees in FY26 — almost twice what IT services firms added — across 2,117 centres, at a 10.4% salary premium.
- 03 AI skill supply is now the binding constraint. Talent scarcity reached 82%; India faces a 53% AI skills deficit, with roughly one qualified engineer for every ten GenAI roles.
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Q1 2026 · Jan–Mar
Capability-led growth, and GCCs as the engine.
GCC active roles climbed 17K→18K→19K across the quarter, non-IT firms absorbed 53% of tech talent, and confidence hit its highest since 2022.
Read the Q1 issue
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Q4 2025 · Oct–Dec
The year-end read on senior demand.
What the close of the year signalled for the one ahead — where the senior mix was already tilting before the Q1 surge.
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Q3 2025
Q3 2025 · Jul–Sep
The mid-tier softness, in three charts.
Where the slowdown was real and where it was a mix effect — the quarter that set up the capability-led rebound.
Read the Q3 issue
What's in every issue
How the Hiring Pulse is put together.
A consistent structure each quarter, built so a leadership team can read the direction and a planning team can use the tables.
01 · The read
One quarter, one argument
A front-page read on what the quarter's data means for the next one. Written and signed by Sachith. The rest of the report is the evidence behind it.
02 · The trends
Velocity, mix, sector, city
The same trend views every quarter, so you read the direction, not just the snapshot. Built from live mandate data across India's GCCs.
03 · The tables
The numbers behind the charts
Every chart has a data table you can take into your own planning. Attribution requested, not required. Every figure verified against placement data before release.