by India’s information technology (IT) industry is anticipating a major boost in AI-related hiring with expectations of a 35-45% growth in AI positions by FY26.
This growth comes as the need for AI-enabled teaching machines, advanced AI-generated content creators, data scientists, and AI product supervisors surge due to increased adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across various sectors.
While the tech hiring landscape seems slower hiring-wise, AI roles with taking over due to client expenditure on automation, cloud services, and AI-first business models still witnessing growth paced by client spending on automation, cloud services, and AI-first business models.
AI’s transformative effects are making it infact predictable that by 2027 India might have 2.3 million jobs emphasizing the speed at which the latter is adopted.
Shortages in requirements and availability of skilled AI
Shortages in requirements and availability of skilled AI specialists and sub-specialties in India along with IT sector trends suggest that positions in artificial intelligence (AI) and their respective positions will experience growth of 15% pa with a demand bonus in FY26.
AI’s projected workforce will serve as the identity of the transformative power it exerts, as marks the transformation power AI exerts – after all, these are projections only having the selected vision components will see the unheard of heights on which the new starting numbers will lead to voyage digger on mark vision even if meant from multiple sectors zenith in multiple incidents.
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The average salary hike arround 30% meanwhile for advanced and designated niche roles sheperding the markets holding abount 60% mark leading to void preferences hyper towards the strategically filtering perfected technology ever created will be over directed.
Salaries for professionals in the Generative AI field have surged by almost 50%.
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Lateral AI/ML hires show increases between 20% to 30%.
AI solution architects receive annual compensation ranging from ₹35 to ₹60 lakh, positioning them as some of the most highly compensated professionals in AI.
GCCs are anticipated to surpass this hiring figure, expecting to bring on board around 180,000 AI professionals by FY26.
GCCs pay 20% to 25% more than IT services companies for AI positions.
In the eyes of industry watchers, AI procurement will target:
Automation and cost saving AI programs.
AI driven business process integrated delivery models.
Client interfacing AI consulting and AI embedded industry roles.
Organizations are consolidating their talent acquisition frameworks in response to surges in demand for AI specialists, even amid a prevailing freeze on hiring in the technology sector.
