India's most acute talent shortage — cyber hiring is up 22%, and skilled supply covers about a third of it.
Cybersecurity recruitment in India has shifted into a higher gear. A +22% year-on-year rise puts it ahead of every other regulated sector — driven by cloud-security adoption, AI-powered threat activity, and a widening imbalance between supply and demand. AI-driven breach incidents climbed +180% in eighteen months, and at current levels only about 35% of the talent India will need by 2028 exists today. This edition maps where the demand sits, who's scarce, and what it costs.
Data to March 2026 · Published June 2026
What the cyber data is actually saying.
Five findings worth surfacing this edition. The full report has the role-by-role headcount, the city map, and the salary bands behind them — these are the ones we'd flag in a leadership conversation.
Cloud security is outrunning every other cyber sub-segment.
Year-on-year hiring growth by sub-segment, to March 2026. Cloud/CNAPP and AI-driven threat detection are pulling away from traditional network security — where growth has nearly flattened.
The full table of contents.
Nine pages, sequenced so a CHRO can read it in fifteen minutes and a TA leader can use the headcount and salary tables that afternoon.
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