Healthcare Roles See Strongest Hiring Growth While Tech Recruitment Slows In India: Survey | Education and Career News
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The trend suggests AI is moving from a specialist skill set into a mainstream expectation, reshaping long-standing roles rather than only creating new ones.
Medical technician, Childcare, Physicians and surgeons have seen the strongest gains. (File/Representative image)
Indian job postings on Indeed rose 1.2% in July 2026, following three consecutive months of decline to stand 8.3% higher than a year ago. While postings have been volatile recently, hiring intensity across India remains elevated, with postings still 84% above pre-pandemic levels.
Job postings increased across almost 80% of occupations over the past three months, pointing to hiring strength that runs wider than the headline number suggests, according to data shared by Indeed Hiring Lab.
The strongest gains were seen in: Medical technician (+30%), Childcare (+26%), Physicians and surgeons (+26%), and Therapy (+25%).
Meanwhile, tech-related hiring told a different story, with declines led by: IT infrastructure, operations and support (-24%), Software development (-18%), Data & analytics (-14%), and IT systems and solutions (-11%).
Despite the recent pullback, tech postings remain well above pre-pandemic levels overall, though the pace of growth has lagged the broader national trend in recent months, the report added.
A growing share of job postings are being reshaped by AI, not just in the roles that build AI tools, but in how employers describe jobs that have existed for decades.
The survey stated that around 349 distinct job titles in India, around 6.6% of all titles tracked, featured meaningful AI mentions in the March 2026 quarter. That figure has doubled over the past year and nearly quadrupled over two years.
Non-tech occupations now account for 42% of these AI-touched job titles, up from 39% a year earlier and 29% two years ago. The trend suggests AI is moving from a specialist skill set into a mainstream expectation, reshaping long-standing roles rather than only creating new ones.
Callam Pickering, Senior Economist, Indeed APAC said, “Indian job postings staged a modest recovery in July, ending three consecutive months of decline. While the rebound was gradual, postings remain well above pre-pandemic levels and continue to outpace other markets Indeed tracks, a sign that India’s formal economy is still expanding at a healthy clip.”
“The real story is beneath the headline number. Healthcare and care-economy roles like medical technicians and childcare are seeing sharp gains, while tech hiring, especially in IT infrastructure and software development, continues to soften. That’s a reminder that even amid strong aggregate growth, employer demand is shifting unevenly across sectors,” Pickering added.
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