Bengaluru
India's dominant engineering hiring market on HN and among the deepest engineering talent pools globally. Bengaluru roles skew toward backend systems, enterprise software, and data engineering — product and design roles are underrepresented relative to its volume.
Top non-US market by volume; grew substantially through the 2021–2022 global hiring peak.
Annual totals for the last five years — every year shown is complete except 2026, hatched because it is still in progress.
Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Bengaluru.
Median bands from the 14 Bengaluru postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.
Remote share tracks the India baseline.
Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.
Engineering depth — backend, data, and enterprise systems dominate.
Keywords counted across 89 Bengaluru hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
96% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)
Bengaluru postings are extracted from monthly HN Who's Hiring? threads using location string matching against a curated city dictionary. Bengaluru is also indexed under the alias Bangalore.
- ·Trust annual totals over single months — monthly counts can be small, and partial years (hatched) cover only part of the calendar.
- ·Compensation bands use a trailing 3-year window; levels appear only when n ≥ 10.
- ·Comparisons against the IN baseline use the same time window on both sides — trailing 12 months for work model, the past 3 years for role mix.