India Job Market Research and Data

JobTether reads live job postings directly from the applicant tracking systems Indian employers host their careers pages on: Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, Ashby, SmartRecruiters and Workday. That pool is a dataset of what companies actually ask for, measured rather than surveyed, and these are the studies we have published from it.

Download the data

The tables behind the studies, as CSV. Every file is an aggregate (per company, per platform, per city or per bucket), so it opens in any spreadsheet.

• Salary disclosure by companysalary-disclosure-by-company.csv

  All 549 companies with 10 or more readable job descriptions: postings, postings stating any pay, postings stating rupee pay.

• Posting age by applicant tracking systemposting-age-by-ats.csv

  Median age and share over 90, 180 and 365 days for each platform, plus the true-publish-date total behind the ghost-jobs headline.

• Citiesmetros.csv

  Share of postings, salary disclosure rate, median experience asked and share asking for 3+ years, for every city with 50+ postings.

• Experience bar distributionexperience-bar-distribution.csv

  How the lowest stated years-of-experience requirement is distributed across the pool.

Using and citing it

The data and the figures in these studies are free to use under CC BY 4.0: quote them, chart them, put them in a report or a lecture. The one condition is attribution with a link to this page or to the study you used. A suggested citation:

JobTether (26 September 2026). Live India job postings dataset: 29,815 postings from 1,057 company career boards. https://jobtether.com/research

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Each study has a headline chart you can put on your own page, slide or newsletter. Copy the code and paste it into any HTML editor; it includes the credit line the licence asks for.

Ghost jobs in India

<figure style="margin:0;max-width:640px"><a href="https://jobtether.com/blog/ghost-jobs-india"><img src="https://jobtether.com/og-ghost-jobs-india.png" alt="24.0% of live Indian job postings with a real publish date have been open more than 90 days" width="1200" height="630" style="width:100%;height:auto" /></a><figcaption style="font-size:13px">Source: <a href="https://jobtether.com/blog/ghost-jobs-india">Ghost jobs in India, JobTether</a> (data: <a href="https://jobtether.com/research">jobtether.com/research</a>, CC BY 4.0)</figcaption></figure>

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Salary transparency in India

<figure style="margin:0;max-width:640px"><a href="https://jobtether.com/blog/salary-transparency-india"><img src="https://jobtether.com/og-salary-transparency-india.png" alt="Only 0.7% of live Indian job descriptions state a salary, and fewer than 4 in 1,000 state it in rupees" width="1200" height="630" style="width:100%;height:auto" /></a><figcaption style="font-size:13px">Source: <a href="https://jobtether.com/blog/salary-transparency-india">Salary transparency in India, JobTether</a> (data: <a href="https://jobtether.com/research">jobtether.com/research</a>, CC BY 4.0)</figcaption></figure>

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The real entry-level experience bar

<figure style="margin:0;max-width:640px"><a href="https://jobtether.com/blog/entry-level-jobs-india-experience-required"><img src="https://jobtether.com/og-entry-level-jobs-india.png" alt="Only 1.4% of the Indian job market is genuinely entry-level, unbarred and recently posted" width="1200" height="630" style="width:100%;height:auto" /></a><figcaption style="font-size:13px">Source: <a href="https://jobtether.com/blog/entry-level-jobs-india-experience-required">The real entry-level experience bar, JobTether</a> (data: <a href="https://jobtether.com/research">jobtether.com/research</a>, CC BY 4.0)</figcaption></figure>

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A different resume for every job

<figure style="margin:0;max-width:640px"><a href="https://jobtether.com/blog/different-resume-for-every-job"><img src="https://jobtether.com/og-different-resume-every-job.png" alt="Two Indian job ads with the same title share a median 10.5% of their stated requirements" width="1200" height="630" style="width:100%;height:auto" /></a><figcaption style="font-size:13px">Source: <a href="https://jobtether.com/blog/different-resume-for-every-job">A different resume for every job, JobTether</a> (data: <a href="https://jobtether.com/research">jobtether.com/research</a>, CC BY 4.0)</figcaption></figure>

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What the data is, and is not

• Company career boards, not job portals. It skews towards tech, startups, global capability centres and large organised employers. Naukri-only listings, walk-ins and consultancy postings are not in it.
• The sample is chosen. We add boards ourselves, and large employers on Workday are now about two thirds of the pool. When the pool grows, figures move because the sample changed; each study says so, and none of them reports that as a market trend.
• Age needs a true publish date. Greenhouse reports when a posting was last edited, so it is left out of the ghost-jobs headline. A posting over 90 days old is an upper bound on stale listings, not proof the job is fake.
• We read the job description text. Pay held only in a structured salary field outside the description counts as undisclosed, and the experience bar recorded is the lowest figure a posting states, so every bar is a floor.