Tony Wang9 min readWhere the Jobs Are: Bengaluru Outranks San Francisco and Boston Combined
We counted 1,138,704 open ATS postings across 12 providers. Bengaluru/Bangalore alone has 10,098 open roles — more than San Francisco and Boston combined.
Ask where the center of the global job market is, and the reflex answer is San Francisco. By open-posting volume, it isn't. Crawlora's July 2026 crawl of 1,138,704 live job postings across 12 hosted applicant-tracking-system (ATS) providers finds more open roles in Bengaluru/Bangalore, India (10,098) than in San Francisco (4,584) and Boston (3,866) combined (8,450). Singapore (4,969) alone outranks San Francisco. Only New York (9,161) and London (7,353) post more open reqs than Bengaluru. This is a study of where hiring activity concentrates on the career boards we crawl — not a claim about wages, remote-work share, or the "best" place to work.
Bengaluru out-hires San Francisco and Boston combined
Bengaluru isn't edging out one Western tech hub — it's ahead of two of them added together. And it isn't a narrow win: 10,098 against a combined 8,450 is a 19% gap. Singapore, a city-state with a fraction of the Bay Area's population, posts more open roles (4,969) than San Francisco does on its own. None of this is a "Western tech hiring is collapsing" story — New York and London both still out-rank Bengaluru — but it does mean the mental map most Western readers carry (San Francisco and Boston as the twin poles of tech hiring) is measurably wrong once you count postings instead of headlines.
The obvious objection is that one giant employer with a single sprawling Bengaluru board is inflating the number. It isn't: Bengaluru's total is spread across a large number of separate companies' career boards rather than concentrated in one dominant tenant — the signature of broad-based hiring demand, not a crawl artifact. That doesn't erase the general crawl-surface caveat above (discovery still runs off Common Crawl, so this is "hubs that got crawled," not a labor-market census), but it does mean the Bengaluru number is a real, distributed signal rather than one company's noise.
The full picture: 20 global hiring hubs, ranked
| Rank | Hub | Region | Combined open postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bengaluru/Bangalore, India | India | 10,098 |
| 2 | New York, NY | United States | 9,161 |
| 3 | London, UK | Europe | 7,353 |
| 4 | Singapore | Asia-Pacific | 4,969 |
| 5 | San Francisco, CA | United States | 4,584 |
| 6 | Boston, MA | United States | 3,866 |
| 7 | Kolkata, India | India | 3,175 |
| 8 | Miami, FL | United States | 3,128 |
| 9 | Chicago, IL | United States | 2,616 |
| 10 | Paris, France | Europe | 2,546 |
| 11 | Washington, DC | United States | 2,460 |
| 12 | Tokyo, Japan | Asia-Pacific | 2,379 |
| 13 | Santa Clara, CA | United States | 2,179 |
| 14 | Berlin, Germany | Europe | 1,484 |
| 15 | Madrid, Spain | Europe | 1,246 |
| 16 | Austin, TX | United States | 1,228 |
| 17 | Los Angeles, CA | United States | 1,184 |
| 18 | Houston, TX | United States | 1,006 |
| 19 | Norfolk, VA | United States | 982 |
| 20 | Pune, India | India | 919 |
Eleven of these 20 named hubs are in the United States, but volume doesn't split that way. Summed, the 11 US hubs above hold 32,394 combined open postings — the single largest regional total in this table, as you'd expect from the largest hub count. But look at the average instead of the sum.
Hiring concentration by region, not just by city
| Region | Hubs in this ranking | Combined open postings | Average postings per hub |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 3 (Bengaluru, Kolkata, Pune) | 14,192 | 4,731 |
| United States | 11 | 32,394 | 2,945 |
| Asia-Pacific (ex-India) | 2 (Singapore, Tokyo) | 7,348 | 3,674 |
| Europe | 4 (London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid) | 12,629 | 3,157 |
The United States has the most hubs in the top 20 and, by simple sum, the most combined postings (32,394) — that's a function of having 11 named cities against India's 3. Per hub, the ranking flips: India's three listed hubs average 4,731 open postings each, ahead of Asia-Pacific (3,674), Europe (3,157) and the United States (2,945). India's hiring in this crawl isn't wide, it's deep — three career-board hubs each running bigger than the typical named US metro, and together (14,192) already ahead of New York on its own (9,161).
None of this says India's total labor market is larger than America's — this table covers 20 named hubs out of a 1,138,704-posting corpus, and most postings live outside any of them, split across thousands of smaller boards, the ~76,000 multi-location placeholders, and city variants that fell outside this cut. What it does say is that inside the set of hubs big enough to rank, the Indian ones are running at a higher average intensity than their US, European or Asia-Pacific counterparts.
What this means, depending on who you are
If you're a job seeker or engineer outside the US: the data backs up what recruiters in Bengaluru, Singapore and Kolkata already know — these are not "emerging" secondary markets by open-posting volume, they're peer hubs to New York and San Francisco. That tracks with Crawlora's separate GitHub census, where India is already the second-largest developer population by public profile count (32,915), behind only the US (43,996). Hiring demand and public developer supply point the same direction.
If you're a recruiter or a company deciding where to open a hub: the volume of postings in a city is a proxy for how competitive your hiring will be there, not necessarily for talent quality or cost. Singapore out-posting San Francisco, and Bengaluru out-posting San Francisco and Boston combined, means those labor markets are more contested than a "cost-effective offshore hub" mental model assumes.
If you're a researcher, journalist, or building on this data yourself: count the right unit, and say what your crawl surface is. "Center of global hiring" claims built from headlines or a handful of household-name companies will over-index on wherever the press happens to look — usually San Francisco. A count of actual open postings, with the crawl-surface caveats stated up front, tells a different and more distributed story. And as with the ATS-provider cut of this same dataset — where Workday alone carries roughly 63% of postings by volume — the unit you count changes the conclusion more than the underlying data does.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Crawlora's Jobs dataset show the most open job postings?
Bengaluru/Bangalore, India, with 10,098 combined open postings across six raw location-string variants, in Crawlora's July 2026 census of 1,138,704 job postings on 12 hosted ATS providers. That's more than San Francisco (4,584) and Boston (3,866) combined (8,450), and it's ahead of every hub except New York (9,161) and London (7,353).
Does Bengaluru really have more open jobs than San Francisco?
By this crawl's posting-volume count, yes — 10,098 versus 4,584, more than double. It isn't a claim about salary, seniority or job quality, only about how many open reqs are posted to career boards that resolve to each city. Singapore (4,969) also outranks San Francisco outright.
Is Bengaluru's total inflated by one huge employer?
No — Bengaluru's postings are spread across many separate employers' career boards rather than concentrated in a single mega-board, the pattern you'd expect from broad, real hiring demand rather than one outlier inflating the number. Discovery is still Common-Crawl-driven, though, so the ranking reflects which companies' boards got crawled, not a literal census of every job in every city.
What happened to the ~76,000 postings tagged '2 Locations' or '3 Locations'?
They're excluded from every city ranking in this analysis. Multi-location placeholder strings, from '2 Locations' through at least '8 Locations,' sum to roughly 76,000 postings — 6.7% of the corpus — with no single resolvable city, so they aren't guessed at or folded into any hub's total.
Does this dataset show which cities have the most remote jobs?
No — deliberately not used here. The remote:true flag is provider-dependent: Workday and Greenhouse, which together carry 73% of all postings, return almost no remote-flagged postings, reflecting a field-population gap in those ATS integrations rather than an absence of remote roles at those employers.
What does this hiring-geography data not cover?
Salary — 10 of 12 ATS providers carry no compensation field at all, and the one that does (Ashby) is 2.2% of postings with only partial population, under 0.3% net coverage. It also doesn't cover internal ATSs at giants like Amazon, Google or Meta, or vendors Crawlora doesn't crawl (iCIMS, SuccessFactors, Taleo). It measures structure — where crawled postings concentrate — not the entire global labor market.