{"id":1018809,"date":"2026-07-04T07:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018809"},"modified":"2026-07-04T07:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:14:42","slug":"ai-hiring-outpaces-overall-it-recruitment-in-india-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/ai-hiring-outpaces-overall-it-recruitment-in-india-report\/","title":{"rendered":"AI hiring outpaces overall IT recruitment in India: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hiring for AI roles within India&#8217;s IT sector outpaced overall recruitment within the industry last month, a survey showed on Friday, indicating a push from companies to reorient themselves in the face of evolving technology. <\/p>\n<p>The sector&#8217;s AI hiring rose 16% year-on-year \u200cin June, \u2060while overall \u2060IT jobs declined 3%, according to job portal Naukri&#8217;s monthly JobSpeak report that collated job listings from more than 150,000 firms on its website. <\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s $315 billion IT industry has been under pressure with clients holding back on spending on technology due to a weak macroeconomic environment and the \u2060advent of \u200cAI that threatens their traditional business model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiring for AI roles within India&#8217;s IT sector outpaced overall recruitment within the industry last month, a survey showed on Friday, indicating a push from companies to reorient themselves in the face of evolving technology. The sector&#8217;s AI hiring rose 16% year-on-year \u200cin June, \u2060while overall \u2060IT jobs declined 3%, according to job portal Naukri&#8217;s monthly JobSpeak report that collated job listings from more than 150,000 firms on its website. India&#8217;s $315 billion IT industry has been under pressure with clients holding back on spending on technology due to a weak macroeconomic environment and the \u2060advent of \u200cAI that threatens [&hellip;]<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018809","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=1018809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018832,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018809\/revisions\/1018832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}