Side by side

Gurgaon vs Kolkata

Kolkata pays more: a median of €88,000 against €81,500. Demand is comparable on both sides. Gurgaon is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 5.4%. Listings for Gurgaon move faster — median age 29 days against 53.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureGurgaonKolkataGap
Open postings39,09448,889-9,795
Posted this week1,0882,191
Median salary€81,500€88,000€-6.5k
25th percentile€64.5k€69.5k
75th percentile€101k€109k
Salary disclosed8.6%5.2%
Remote share12.6%7.2%+5.4pp
Median age of posting29d53d
Open over 60 days45.3%40.5%
Visa sponsorship13.7%24.1%
Pay

Pay distribution

Gurgaon

€37k€141k

Kolkata

€40k€152k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Gurgaon

just posted29d median90d+

Kolkata

just posted53d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Gurgaon — technologies

GCP
72.0%
Airflow
65.8%
Salesforce
59.6%
Java
53.4%
Python
47.2%
dbt
41.0%
HubSpot
34.8%

Kolkata — technologies

dbt
72.0%
Go
65.8%
Spark
59.6%
Azure
53.4%
GCP
47.2%
PostgreSQL
41.0%
Terraform
34.8%

Gurgaon — employers

Cobalt Financial
9.4%
Rivergate Media
8.7%
Quarry Analytics
8.0%
Vantage Logistics
7.2%
Brightline Retail
6.5%
Kestrel Health
5.8%
Tidewater Insurance
5.1%

Kolkata — employers

Meridian Software
9.4%
Tidewater Insurance
8.7%
Northwind Systems
8.0%
Ironbark Manufacturing
7.2%
Cobalt Financial
6.5%
Solstice Biotech
5.8%
Vantage Logistics
5.1%

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Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.