{"id":1018400,"date":"2026-07-02T08:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018400"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:06:50","slug":"tier-2-cities-drive-growth-in-indias-tech-hiring-as-gcc-expansion-spreads-beyond-metros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/tier-2-cities-drive-growth-in-indias-tech-hiring-as-gcc-expansion-spreads-beyond-metros\/","title":{"rendered":"Tier-2 cities drive growth in India&#8217;s tech hiring as GCC expansion spreads beyond metros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hiring activity in India&#8217;s technology sector is expanding beyond the country&#8217;s largest cities, with Tier-2 locations recording faster growth than metro markets as global capability centres (GCCs) widen their footprint and employers add engineering, analytics and AI-related roles. <\/p>\n<p>Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities are seeing a larger share of new technology hiring even as Bengaluru, Hyderabad and other metro cities continue to account for most job openings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiring activity in India&#8217;s technology sector is expanding beyond the country&#8217;s largest cities, with Tier-2 locations recording faster growth than metro markets as global capability centres (GCCs) widen their footprint and employers add engineering, analytics and AI-related roles. Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities are seeing a larger share of new technology hiring even as Bengaluru, Hyderabad and other metro cities continue to account for most job openings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018430,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018400\/revisions\/1018430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}