LinkedIn, world’s largest social networking site for professionals with more than 300 million users (out of which 26 million are from India) has a goldmine of data related to talents and skills. Recently, when LinkedIn did some analysis of the cities which attract most of the technology driven talent, and they came up with some surprising findings:
Top 4 cities in the world which attracts tech talent are not from Silicon Valley, but from India!
Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai are globally top destinations where tech talent is moving and migrating. At #5 position is San Francisco, representing Silicon Valley.
Here are the top 10 cities attracting tech talent:
As per LinkedIn analysis, India has certainly beaten Silicon Valley when it comes to enticing tech talent.
LinkedIn analyzed their member’s data from 52 cities all over the world, and filtered out the median percentage of new residents with technology skills, and found that it was 16% or 1 out of 6 new members from those cities had tech skills. In that calculation, all 5 Indian cities in the top 10 rank had a median average of almost double of 16%.
Where Tech Talent Is Moving Across The Globe
This actually suggests two very important factors:
- Most of the technologically skilled population is migrating to cities
- India is witnessing unprecedented boom in technology sector as more and more skilled persons (atleast on LinkedIn) are choosing technology as their domain
LinkedIn was also able to find out the three most popular and in-demand skills which these new technology enthusiasts are mentioning in their profiles:
- IT Infrastructure and Systems Management: Skills such as ITIL, Active Directory, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Architecture, etc. are mentioned in this area
- JAVA Development: Skills such as Java, Eclipse, JSP, Spring, etc are mentioned in this area
- Web Programming: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, jQuery
Among these, the keywords: “Java Development” and “Web Programming” are the ones which are the most preferred by new technology talents coming into these cities.
You can checkout the complete report and the methodologies followed while finding out these results here.
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Mumbai is no more dream city???
This is a perfect example of dumb data. This data shows just one fact – that Indians on LinkedIn are overwhelmingly technology professionals. Very few Indians outside the tech world are registered as LinkedIn members. That’s the reason for the high percentages.
Sanjeev, In this case you are actually absolutely right. The data is skewed because it takes into account only Linkedin members who are obviously Tech and hence those numbers. But, within the tech community, I think the data seems to be in line with reality..