Side by side

Hyderabad vs Kolkata

Kolkata pays more: a median of €88,000 against €82,500. There is 1.4× more demand for Hyderabad. Listings for Hyderabad move faster — median age 37 days against 53.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureHyderabadKolkataGap
Open postings70,33448,889+21,445
Posted this week5,7302,191
Median salary€82,500€88,000€-5.5k
25th percentile€65k€69.5k
75th percentile€103k€109k
Salary disclosed4.9%5.2%
Remote share11.3%7.2%+4.1pp
Median age of posting37d53d
Open over 60 days42.7%40.5%
Visa sponsorship15.1%24.1%
Pay

Pay distribution

Hyderabad

€37k€143k

Kolkata

€40k€152k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Hyderabad

just posted37d median90d+

Kolkata

just posted53d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Hyderabad — technologies

Java
72.0%
SQL
65.8%
GCP
59.6%
Kubernetes
53.4%
React
47.2%
JavaScript
41.0%
Figma
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%

Hyderabad — employers

Northwind Systems
9.4%
Aperture Labs
8.7%
Lakeshore Hospitality
8.0%
Solstice Biotech
7.2%
Ironbark Manufacturing
6.5%
Halcyon Energy
5.8%
Beacon Robotics
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%.