AI Reshapes India's Job Market: New Study Reveals In-Demand Skills & Training Gaps

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News18•15-02-2026, 11:15
AI Reshapes India's Job Market: New Study Reveals In-Demand Skills & Training Gaps
- •AI is transforming India's job market, prioritizing skills combining domain expertise with AI and data.
- •Prompt engineering and generative AI (68%) are most in-demand, followed by data analytics (36%) and data science/machine learning (35%).
- •Indian companies are failing to adequately train their workforce in AI-relevant skills, with formal training remaining limited.
- •Only 4% of IT firms have trained over half their staff in AI, citing costs, trainer shortages, and organizational readiness as constraints.
- •AI increases productivity, with 38% of divisions seeing higher output with fewer people; repetitive tasks are most affected.
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