{"id":1018889,"date":"2026-07-04T08:25:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018889"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:58:32","slug":"ai-jobs-rise-16-even-as-indias-it-hiring-slips-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/ai-jobs-rise-16-even-as-indias-it-hiring-slips-report\/","title":{"rendered":"AI jobs rise 16% even as India\u2019s IT hiring slips: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hiring for artificial intelligence (AI) roles continued to grow in India\u2019s technology sector in June even as overall recruitment in the industry declined. According to Naukri.com\u2019s latest JobSpeak report, hiring for AI-related roles in the IT sector increased by 16 per cent in June compared with the same month last year. During the same period, overall IT hiring fell by 3 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>The report is based on job listings from more than 1.5 lakh companies that use Naukri\u2019s recruitment platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiring for artificial intelligence (AI) roles continued to grow in India\u2019s technology sector in June even as overall recruitment in the industry declined. According to Naukri.com\u2019s latest JobSpeak report, hiring for AI-related roles in the IT sector increased by 16 per cent in June compared with the same month last year. During the same period, overall IT hiring fell by 3 per cent. The report is based on job listings from more than 1.5 lakh companies that use Naukri\u2019s recruitment platform.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018889","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=1018889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018911,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018889\/revisions\/1018911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}