Bengaluru, Chennai lead India’s tech talent surge: report

Among functional skills, Development (35 per cent) held the highest share of tech hiring demand while Bangalore and Chennai showed the highest tech-focused intent-to-hire in FY24, according to the Annual Digital Skills Report FY24 by Quess Corp.

The report states that 66 percent of the aggregate demand emerged from the top 5 skill suites, namely Development, ERP, Testing, Design & Engineering, and Networking. In addition to these skill suites, there was an increase in talent demand for skills related to cloud (16 percent), cybersecurity (215 per cent), and analytics (256 per cent) between H1 FY24 and H2 FY24.