AI Governance, Prompt Engineering and Generative AI lead India’s next wave of tech skills: Randstad Digital

India’s technology workforce is entering a decisive new phase shaped by a surge in AI governance roles, an acceleration in cybersecurity hiring, and an unexpected rise of tier-2 cities as emerging digital talent engines, according to the Randstad Digital Technology Skills Insights Report: India, a data-rich study that maps the country’s fast-evolving digital skills landscape.

The Report shows that while foundational skills like Java, Salesforce, and Agile still make up nearly one third of IT roles, the workforce is rapidly shifting toward high impact, AI enabled and governance focused functions. Demand for AI and machine learning engineers, data scientists, and AI governance specialists is set to surge in 2026. At the same time, cybersecurity is undergoing a major reset as AI driven threats force enterprises to rebuild security operations, creating new opportunities for forensic analysts, AI security experts, ethical hackers, and incident responders.

The report ...