Tevos Skill Intelligence · India 2026

Which skills are rising — and which are flat.

Job demand, salary premium, and YoY trend for 15 key skills. Powered by 534,000+ anonymised job records, updated nightly.

Jan–Apr 2026 · k≥12 floor · India

Skills by demand

LLM / GenAI surging

AI/ML

12,800 active JDs
+68% YoY change
+31% salary premium
RAG / Vector Search surging

AI/ML

5,100 active JDs
+51% YoY change
+33% salary premium
Kubernetes surging

DevOps

14,200 active JDs
+31% YoY change
+24% salary premium
TypeScript surging

Frontend/Backend

21,400 active JDs
+34% YoY change
+14% salary premium
Terraform surging

DevOps

11,800 active JDs
+38% YoY change
+22% salary premium
AWS rising

Cloud

39,100 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

18,700 active JDs
+29% YoY change
+17% salary premium
Product Management surging

Product

11,200 active JDs
+31% YoY change
+21% salary premium
React rising

Frontend

41,800 active JDs
+18% YoY change
+12% salary premium
Python rising

Data/ML

68,400 active JDs
+14% YoY change
+9% salary premium
Node.js rising

Backend

28,600 active JDs
+11% YoY change
+8% salary premium
SQL stable

Data

55,200 active JDs
+6% YoY change
+5% salary premium
Java stable

Backend

52,600 active JDs
-4% YoY change
+2% salary premium

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