Pune
Major Indian technology city; GCC hub named by NASSCOM for US multinational expansion in FY2026.
Pune, one of India's Global Capability Centre hubs alongside Bengaluru and Hyderabad, featured in NASSCOM's FY2026 data covering the net 140,000 IT jobs added nationwide reported by 27 May 2026, even as entry-level hiring fell 20-25%.
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Pune is a major city in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, historically known as a centre of manufacturing and automotive engineering and, since the 1990s, as one of India's principal information-technology hubs alongside Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai.
The city's universities and engineering colleges have long fed a large domestic technical workforce, making it an established base for both Indian IT services firms and, increasingly, the in-house Global Capability Centres multinationals use to run engineering and support functions directly.
That base positioned Pune to absorb part of the FY2026 GCC expansion by JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Apple, Walmart and Shell, tying its local labour market to the same offshore-relocation dynamic reshaping Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
It shares in India's GCC hiring wave
Pune features alongside Bengaluru and Hyderabad as a hub where multinational Global Capability Centres expanded through FY2026, part of the same NASSCOM-recorded growth of roughly 140,000 net IT jobs nationwide to 5.9 million. GCCs run by JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Apple, Walmart and Shell drove the expansion even as those firms confirmed AI-driven cuts in their home markets.
The same period saw India's top five outsourcers shed a combined 6,981 jobs and entry-level IT hiring fall 20-25% across hub cities including Pune, meaning the city's growth reflects experienced-hire relocation rather than a straightforward expansion of the local graduate job market.
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