The State of GCC Talent.
Our annual report on the senior talent market that powers India's GCCs. The year in hiring, compensation, and leadership, read against a decade of placement data, with a clear view of the year ahead. The one report a GCC leadership team should read cover to cover.
Latest edition
FY2026 · GCC Vantage
FY2026 · GCC Vantage
The year GCC talent stopped being a cost story and became a capability one.
India's GCC ecosystem has moved beyond cost arbitrage into strategic innovation — a sector projected to exceed $100 billion by 2030 on a workforce above 1.9 million. The FY2026 edition maps the market and geography, breaks hiring dynamics down sector by sector, and reads the conversion crisis that decides who actually builds their team this year.
- 01 The senior bench deepened. Leadership roles are on track from 6,500+ toward 30,000+, and by 2027 mega GCCs (5,000+) are expected to hold over 60% of the workforce.
- 02 Comp split by capability. GCCs led the national pay table at a 10.4% average hike versus 9.1% nationally, with AI, cloud and cyber skills carrying 25–50% premiums.
- 03 The conversion crisis is the real story. Net conversion sits at 12.18% across India GCC mandates — the funnel loses most of its value after the offer stage, where most TA dashboards stop measuring.
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Past editions
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Earlier editions.
2025 Edition
2025
The year the charters got bigger.
How global functions began moving ownership to India in earnest, and the charters that set up FY2026.
Read the 2025 edition
2024 Edition
2024
When senior supply got tight.
The year the scarcity of director-level talent became the binding constraint on scaling.
Read the 2024 edition
2023 Edition
2023
The baseline year.
The edition that set the benchmarks the later years are read against.
Read the 2023 edition
What's in the report
How the State of GCC Talent is built.
A full report, structured so a leadership team can read the argument and a planning team can use the depth behind it.
01 · The year
What actually changed
A clear read on the year in senior GCC talent, written and signed by Sachith, drawn from a full year of placement data rather than survey aggregates.
02 · The depth
Sector, level, city, comp
The detailed cuts behind the headline, sector by sector and level by level, so the report holds up to a CHRO and a planning lead alike.
03 · The year ahead
A view, taken seriously
Our read on the twelve months coming, stated plainly and revisited next year. Every figure verified against placement data before release.