The numbers behind India's GCC talent market.
Four reports, four cadences, one underlying database: twenty years of placement intelligence, indexed by sector and city, updated every time we close a mandate.
Updated May 2026
Four reports, one database.
Each report reads the same placement record from a different angle. The Talent Radar goes deep on one high-demand skill market a month. The Hiring Pulse reads the quarter in three findings. The Compensation Index keeps the comp band honest, one sector at a time. The Special Reports go wide on one theme at a time, and the State of GCC Talent is the annual flagship. That record is published in full on The Rare-Hire Record™.
A monthly deep read on one high-demand skill market, in three findings.
The quarter's hiring market, read in three findings and the decision each hands you.
The benchmark that keeps the comp band honest, one sector at a time.
Deep, one-off reads of the market at its widest angle.
The annual flagship.
Once a year, the whole placement record is read at its widest angle: the state of GCC talent across supply, compensation and charters. The FY2026 edition is our first built on primary research, and it's in production now.
in production · FY2026
One year of the GCC talent market, mapped end to end.
Our first primary-research read of how senior supply, compensation and charter ownership moved across the ecosystem, built on a full year of placement data and a primary survey of GCC leaders. In production now; get on the early-access list.
Get early access →What makes the data credible.
Most GCC market reports cite the same secondary sources. Ours doesn't. Here's where the numbers actually come from — and the rules we follow before any of it gets published.
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01 · SourcePlacement data, not survey dataEvery salary band, every notice period, every counter-offer rate comes from a mandate we ran. Twenty years of placements, indexed and queryable.
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02 · Coverage64 GCCs across four sectorsTech, Pharma, BFSI, ER&D. Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, NCR. We name the limits of what we cover — and don't publish on what we don't know well.
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03 · CadenceUpdated against the calendar, not the news cycleMonthly velocity. Quarterly sector deep-dives. Annual benchmark in February. The cadence is fixed — what changes is what the data is showing.
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04 · Editorial lineSachith reviews every observation before it shipsCharts can mislead. Twenty years of practitioner judgement sits behind every "this matters because…" line that turns a number into a read.
Get every report the day it drops.
One Wednesday email. One observation from Sachith. Direct links to the latest Talent Radar, Hiring Pulse, or Compensation Index — and an early read of the State of GCC Talent before it goes public in February.
Questions about the data.
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