Last updated: 2026-09-07

India vs Australia: what 71,573 live job postings say

Both markets advertise almost entirely in English, so language is not what separates them. Qarera's index holds 57,447 live postings in India and 14,126 in Australia. What differs is where the work sits and who is advertising it.

Every figure on this page is counted from postings collected directly from company career pages and applicant tracking systems, not from other job boards, and it refreshes daily.

MeasureIndiaAustralia
Live job postingsadvertised right now57,44714,126
Postings written in Englishcount, and share of all postings56,950 (99.1%)14,090 (99.7%)
Remote-friendlyshare of all postings9.9%10.6%
Mention visa or relocation supportshare of English-language postings, not comparable across countries5.2%8.7%
Largest hiring cityshare of the country totalBengaluru (10.7%)Sydney (25.7%)

Why this page does not rank the two on visa sponsorship

5.2% of English-language postings in India mention visa sponsorship or relocation support, against 8.7% in Australia. Those two numbers sit in the table above, and they should not be read as a ranking. The systems behind them differ in kind, so a posting's silence means a different thing in each country.

India

Employment visas are employer-specific and granted against a salary floor. The great majority of postings in the index are aimed at candidates already in the country.

Australia

Employer-sponsored visas require an approved sponsor, but points-tested skilled visas run without any employer, so a large part of skilled migration never touches a job advert.

The phrase match is blunt in both directions as well. It counts a posting that says sponsorship is available and a posting that says the candidate must already hold a valid work visa, and those point opposite ways. Read the share within one country over time, or across employers inside one country. Do not read it across two immigration regimes. Rules also change faster than any index; check the responsible authority before relying on the summaries above.

Where the work actually is

Sydney holds 25.7% of all postings in Australia. Bengaluru holds 10.7% of India's. The second cities pull them further apart: Hyderabad carries 2,361 postings against Bengaluru's 6,123, while Melbourne carries 1,827 against Sydney's 3,636.

#IndiaPostingsAustraliaPostings
1Bengaluru6,123Sydney3,636
2Hyderabad2,361Melbourne1,827
3Pune2,236Brisbane1,516
4Mumbai1,998Perth1,432
5Delhi1,608Adelaide877
6Gurugram1,605Canberra743

Not every posting names a city, so these shares do not add up to 100%. The six cities above account for 27.7% of postings in India and 71% in Australia.

Who is doing the hiring

Neither market is held up by a handful of employers. The largest single advertiser in India, Genpact, accounts for 2% of the country's live postings. In Australia it is Ramsay Health Care, at 1.7%. The lists below are what sits at the top of each market, which is a question of composition rather than concentration.

India

  • Genpact1,165
  • EY629
  • PwC622
  • TP575
  • JLL406
  • DBS Bank383

Australia

  • Ramsay Health Care236
  • endeavour group careers233
  • Guzman y Gomez197
  • Repco195
  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia193
  • JB Hi-Fi & The Good Guys179

Remote work

Remote-friendly postings run at 9.9% in India and 10.6% in Australia. On this measure the two markets are the same, and a decision between them should not turn on it.

Figures you can quote

Each of these is written to stand on its own, with the sample and the date inside the sentence.

India advertises 56,950 live job postings in English to Australia's 14,090 (Sep 2026), according to Qarera's live job index.
Sydney holds 25.7% of live job postings in Australia, against Bengaluru's 10.7% in India (Sep 2026), according to Qarera's live job index.
5.2% of English-language job postings in India mention visa sponsorship or relocation support (2,976 of 56,950 postings, Sep 2026), according to Qarera's live job index.
8.7% of English-language job postings in Australia mention visa sponsorship or relocation support (1,231 of 14,090 postings, Sep 2026), according to Qarera's live job index.

Citing this figure

Figures for the comparison of job postings in India and Australia are drawn from 71,573 live postings across both markets, as of 2026-09-07. Postings are collected from company career pages and applicant tracking systems and refreshed daily; see how the index is built and what it cannot tell you.

Free to quote or republish with attribution to Qarera and a link to this page. Please include the date, because the index is live. Citation wording and licence →

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