India's AI talent pool over 400,000 strong, but gaps exists

Between March 2024 and March 2025, three categories of roles have become prominent in the AI landscape

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About 70 per cent of the high complexity, GenAI-enabled hiring in India is done by global capability centres (GCCs), system integrators and product firms.

Avik Das Bengaluru

2 min read Last Updated : May 17 2025 | 12:05 AM IST

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India’s AI talent pool has 416,000 professionals, but with a 51 per cent demand-supply gap, there is an an urgent need to build future-ready capabilities.

Between March 2024 and March 2025, three categories of roles have become prominent in the AI landscape.

- Prompt Engineers and GenAI Researchers now account for over 10 per cent of new AI job postings, a significant jump from under 2 per cent in 2023.

- Data Engineering has become the backbone of GenAI infrastructure. 18 per cent to 22 per cent of job descriptions for data engineers explicitly reference orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster) alongside

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