{"id":989219,"date":"2026-02-02T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989219"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:30:51","slug":"indias-tech-job-market-records-first-hiring-uptick-in-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/indias-tech-job-market-records-first-hiring-uptick-in-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s tech job market records first hiring uptick in six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: India\u2019s technology job market has shown its first clear sign of improvement after nearly six months of subdued hiring activity, according to a new report by Xpheno. <\/p>\n<p>The report titled Active Tech Jobs Outlook \u2013 India for February 2026 shows that active tech job openings rose by 8% month-on-month to 109,000 in February. This marks the first statistically significant increase since August 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: India\u2019s technology job market has shown its first clear sign of improvement after nearly six months of subdued hiring activity, according to a new report by Xpheno. The report titled Active Tech Jobs Outlook \u2013 India for February 2026 shows that active tech job openings rose by 8% month-on-month to 109,000 in February. This marks the first statistically significant increase since August 2025.<\/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-989219","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\/989219","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=989219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}