11 Sep, 2008

Availability of Developers by City (Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi etc) and Technology (Java, C++, C#, AIR, WPF etc)

Posted by Bhavin Turakhia | (16) Comments

An alltime favorite question amongst journalists who interview me as a “young entrepreneur” has been – “Tell us about some of the challenges you faced while growing Directi?” and my patent answer has always been that the only challenge we have faced and continue to face is finding good talent. In our bid for finding talent we are now expanding into other cities over the next few months.

In order to determine tech labor availability across the common metro cities in India I compiled a statistical comparison of the count of resumes available on common jobsites for common software development skillsets in the various cities in India, and the findings are very interesting. This blog post compiles these findings. If you are a tech company in India – these findings can help you make technology decisions concerning city selection and platform selection.

The findings

Below are findings from the comparison of the count of resumes of software developers with 0-4 yrs of experience from various cities in India as compiled from a jobsite -

1. Findings by City

  • Bangalore has 2.5 times the number of Java resumes of Mumbai
  • In terms of total resumes from each city the ranking is in the following order – Bangalore, Hyderabad, NCR, Chennai, Delhi, Pune, and lastly Mumbai
  • As an example, here is the citywise count of Resumes that contained the keyword Java
    • Bangalore – 123,205
    • Hyderabad- 114,561
    • NCR – 85,347
    • Chennai – 82459
    • Pune – 54,086
    • Delhi – 53,256
    • Mumbai – 43,672
  • Every city in India has more available developers than Mumbai with the South taking the lead
  • NCR has almost twice the number of developers as Delhi

2. Findings by Technology

  • The total count of Resumes of developers with 0-4 yrs experience that contain the below keywords across all 7 cities was -
    • C++ – 635,575
    • Java – 556,586
    • C# – 190,872
    • Javascript – 162,343
    • Ajax – 41,219
    • Flex – 8,668
    • Python – 3,429
    • Ruby – 2,099
    • WPF – 779
    • Silverlight – 255
  • As you can see Java and C++ are the predominant keywords in Software Developer Resumes
  • Flex beats Python and Ruby :)
  • Ajax and Javascript beat Flex/WPF/Silverlight by several magnitudes as keywords appearing in resumes

The results above remain similar in terms of ratio, for Resumes with 4+ yrs of experience.

Click here to download the raw excel sheets for all cities and technologies >>

The methodology

I had my team conduct independent searches for each permutation and combination of the following -

  • Keywords – Java, C#, C++, Javascript, Flex, Silverlight, WPF, Ajax, Actionscript, Ruby, Python
  • Cities – Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Delhi, NCR (Noida/Gurgaon), Chennai, Hyderabad
  • Experience – 0 to 4 yrs , 4+ yrs
  • Function – Software Development (or equivalent)
  • Jobsites – Naukri, Timejobs, Monster
  • Date – 3rd June 2008

The above totals upto a whopping 462 searches :) . I then tabulated the count of Resumes for each search and put it in multiple excel spreadsheets. You can download the spreadsheets to crunch the numbers yourself.

Based on the above data, Directi and .pw clearly need a presence in the south. The data also demonstrates the lack of penetration of RIA, especially Flex/Silverlight/AIR/WPF, amongst Indian developers.

Hopefully this data can help others make similar decisions. Meanwhile lookout Bangalore/NCR – we are in the process of making an appearance shortly :)

PS: Interested in joining Directi? – check our openings at http://careers.directi.com

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