Recruitment platform, announced that formal job creation in India softened further in October, with job postings down 5.6% on the platform. Despite that, Indian job postings are 60% above pre-pandemic levels, but have fallen 25% since their peak in January 2023.
This, according to Indeed, is interesting as many other countries namely the United Kingdom (-22%), New Zealand (-23%), and Hong Kong (-19%) have slipped even lower on the scale.
Indeed has categorised the data as:
- Occupation: Even though job postings decreased in October, there tends to be some strong performers.
Job postings in cleaning and sanitation rose around 20% over the past three months ahead of community and social service (+17.4%), dental (+13.1%), nursing (+11.2%) and food preparation and service (+10.3%). Another positive trend was the posting for human resources, which climbed 2.3%.
However, these gains were more than offset by weakness in banking & finance, where postings fell 25.6%, along with legal (-22.4%), retail (-16.7%) and loading & stocking (-15.0%).
- Mode of work: Indeed stated that in October, 9.1% of Indian job postings explicitly mentioned phrases such as ‘work from home’ or ‘work remotely’ in their job descriptions, which is a 7.6% year-on-year growth.
Remote opportunities are most common in IT infrastructure, operations and support at 18.2% of postings in the October quarter 2025, ahead of community and social services (15.1%) and industrial engineering (14.0%).
The remote share can also vary considerably from year-to-year. Over the past year, the share has increased the most in IT infrastructure, operations & support (+4.4% points) and installation & maintenance (+3.4% points). By comparison, large declines were observed for veterinary (-2.5% points) and community & social service (-1.9% points).
In the October quarter, the remote posting share was higher in 84% of occupational categories compared to the same quarter a year ago.
Commenting on the findings, Callam Pickering, Indeed’s APAC Senior Economist, said, every month, the Indian workforce gradually transitions towards more formal work arrangements. As the nation transitions, job creation in the formal sector is expected to outpace overall employment growth nationwide. This transition is also why job postings in India have been stronger than in other Indeed markets, both during the post-pandemic job boom and the subsequent slowdown.
