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In July 2025, TCS — India’s largest IT company and a brand that millions of Indian families associate with stability, prestige, and a “settled life” — announced its biggest-ever layoffs. Twelve thousand jobs. Gone. And the reason wasn’t a business slowdown. It was AI. That same year, NITI Aayog released a report warning that AI […]
By C. Thiruvenkatam | Career Research Analyst, careerskillguide.com Published: May 2026 | Data verified: May 2026 The salary gap between IT services and product companies in India is real and well-documented — engineers with five years of experience earn ₹9–14 LPA at IT services companies and ₹18–28 LPA at product companies and GCCs for the
By C. Thiruvenkatam | Career Research Analyst, careerskillguide.com Published: May 2026 | Data verified: May 2026 The median machine learning engineer salary in India in 2026 is ₹12.8 LPA, according to AmbitionBox data from 21,400 verified salary reports submitted between January and April 2026. Do not use that number to evaluate your situation until you
By C. Thiruvenkatam | Career Research Analyst, careerskillguide.com Published: May 2026 | Data verified: May 2026 The median full stack developer salary in India in 2026 is ₹8.4 LPA, according to AmbitionBox data from 52,600 verified salary reports submitted between January and April 2026. The 25th percentile is ₹5.1 LPA and the 90th percentile is
By C. Thiruvenkatam | Career Research Analyst, careerskillguide.com Published: May 2026 | Data verified: May 2026 The median DevOps engineer salary in India in 2026 is ₹9.8 LPA, according to AmbitionBox data from 29,400 verified salary reports submitted between January and April 2026. The 25th percentile is ₹6.2 LPA and the 90th percentile is ₹28.5
The median Python developer salary in India in 2026 is ₹9.2 LPA, according to AmbitionBox data from 41,800 verified salary reports submitted between January and April 2026. That number is accurate. It is also nearly useless — because “Python developer” in India in 2026 is not one job. It is four jobs that share a
The median data analyst salary in India in 2026 is ₹7.4 LPA, according to AmbitionBox data drawn from 38,600 verified salary reports submitted between January and April 2026. The 25th percentile is ₹4.5 LPA and the 90th percentile is ₹19.8 LPA. Before you do anything with those numbers, there is one thing you need to
The median software engineer salary in India in 2026 is ₹8.6 LPA, according to AmbitionBox data drawn from 47,200 verified salary reports submitted between January and April 2026. The 25th percentile sits at ₹4.9 LPA and the 90th percentile at ₹24.5 LPA — and that gap is not statistical noise. It is the entire story.