Naukri

Monthly Indian white-collar hiring index computed from live job listings on the platform, self-described as measuring 'hiring trends across industries, cities, functional areas, and experience levels'. May 2025 print = 2,807 (vs 2,799 May 2024), with role-family deltas (AI/ML +25% YoY), metro-level cuts (Delhi NCR +35%, Chennai +34%, Kolkata +33%), experience-band cuts (13-16 years +36%, 16+ years +6%, freshers +22%), sector cuts (insurance +6%, real estate +5%, BPO/ITES +4%, hospitality +4%, oil & gas +21%) and employer-class cuts (unicorn hiring +19% YoY, +29% Delhi NCR).

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Universe, instruments and categories.

Industry: IT Consulting & Other Services
Instruments: equities
Categories: AlternativeSentimentFundamental

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Type: not stated
Format: Tabular — monthly index value plus industry x city x functional-area x experience-band cross-tabs; distributed today as narrative blog and PDF
Volume: Millions of live listings refreshed monthly, each tagged industry/city/functional-area/experience; the published index alone implies thousands of aggregated cells per month across the four cross-tab axes, with a continuous monthly series back to the late 2000s
Users: Tens of millions of registered candidate profiles and hundreds of thousands of employer accounts cumulatively (inferred from the platform's category-leader position, c.3,100 staff on the Naukri brand and c.$211M brand revenue)
History: 15 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active — monthly editions with an unbroken YoY comparison (May 2025 2,807 vs May 2024 2,799) and continuing editions into 2026 in the same blog series
Launched: ~2009-2011 for the JobSpeak index as a public monthly product (Naukri itself launched in the late 1990s; the index is presented as a long-running 'trusted barometer' with a normalised multi-year base)
Delivery: not stated
Entity mapping: not stated
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