{"id":1033603,"date":"2026-09-07T08:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033603"},"modified":"2026-09-07T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:02:14","slug":"tier-2-tech-hiring-jumps-95-yoy-why-indias-small-cities-are-outpacing-megacities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/07\/tier-2-tech-hiring-jumps-95-yoy-why-indias-small-cities-are-outpacing-megacities\/","title":{"rendered":"Tier-2 tech hiring jumps 95% YoY: Why India\u2019s small cities are outpacing megacities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s tech hiring map is changing. Active tech job openings in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities have jumped 95% year-on-year, even as demand in the country\u2019s megacities has cooled. <\/p>\n<p>The latest Active Tech Jobs Outlook \u2013 India, September 2026 report by specialist staffing firm Xpheno points to a major change in where companies are hiring tech talent. Smaller cities are gaining a bigger share of India\u2019s tech jobs. <\/p>\n<p>The change is real, even if the sharp percentage growth needs to be seen in context, according to Xpheno co-founder Kamal Karanth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s tech hiring map is changing. Active tech job openings in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities have jumped 95% year-on-year, even as demand in the country\u2019s megacities has cooled. The latest Active Tech Jobs Outlook \u2013 India, September 2026 report by specialist staffing firm Xpheno points to a major change in where companies are hiring tech talent. Smaller cities are gaining a bigger share of India\u2019s tech jobs. The change is real, even if the sharp percentage growth needs to be seen in context, according to Xpheno co-founder Kamal Karanth.<\/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-1033603","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\/1033603","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=1033603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033618,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033603\/revisions\/1033618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}