Tevos Skill Intelligence · India 2026
Which skills are rising — and which are flat.
Job demand, salary premium, and YoY trend for 15 key skills. From 227,000+ indexed job descriptions · snapshot: H1 2026.
Skills by demand
LLM / GenAI
surging
AI/ML
8,294
active JDs
+68%
YoY change
+31%
salary premium
RAG / Vector Search
surging
AI/ML
6,108
active JDs
+51%
YoY change
+33%
salary premium
Kubernetes
surging
DevOps
7,107
active JDs
+31%
YoY change
+24%
salary premium
TypeScript
surging
Frontend/Backend
3,902
active JDs
+34%
YoY change
+14%
salary premium
Terraform
surging
DevOps
3,706
active JDs
+38%
YoY change
+22%
salary premium
AWS
rising
Cloud
14,660
active JDs
+22%
YoY change
+19%
salary premium
Go
surging
Backend
9,400
active JDs
+27%
YoY change
+22%
salary premium
Rust
surging
Systems
3,200
active JDs
+41%
YoY change
+28%
salary premium
Data Engineering
surging
Data
5,798
active JDs
+29%
YoY change
+17%
salary premium
Product Management
surging
Product
4,200
active JDs
+31%
YoY change
+21%
salary premium
React
rising
Frontend
5,776
active JDs
+18%
YoY change
+12%
salary premium
Python
rising
Data/ML
19,986
active JDs
+14%
YoY change
+9%
salary premium
Node.js
rising
Backend
1,929
active JDs
+11%
YoY change
+8%
salary premium
SQL
stable
Data
17,277
active JDs
+6%
YoY change
+5%
salary premium
Java
stable
Backend
14,508
active JDs
-4%
YoY change
+2%
salary premium
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