Engineering internships in India, by the numbers
Of 389 engineering internships in India in the last 30 days, only 18 said what they pay.
Measured over the 30 days to 13 October 2026 · 389 postings. Updated daily.
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Only 18 of 389 engineering internships said what they pay
the other 371 say nothing about pay at all
18 of 389
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16 internships had zero applicants when we found them
out of 303 that reported a count, and another 31 had fewer than ten
16 of 303
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11% of internships already had over 100 applicants
34 of 303 that reported a count — applying late is applying to a queue
34 of 303
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We list a new internship about 21 minutes after it goes up
median across 389 postings that carried a timestamp
21 of 389
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155 companies posted engineering internships
across 389 listings — the busiest was Kaleris with 21
155 of 389
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Python was asked for in 38% of engineering internships
147 of 389 listings named it, ahead of SQL (82) and Java (82)
147 of 389
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Only 6% of engineering internships are remote
18 of 286 that stated a mode — 214 are on-site
18 of 286
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We turn away about 272 listings for every one we put on the board
1,05,927 refused of 1,45,286 cards seen — most are course sellers and unpaid "intern" schemes
1,05,927 of 1,45,286
How this was measured
We track engineering internships and entry-level full-time roles as they are published on public job boards and on companies' own careers pages, and record each one the first time we see it. These figures cover every internship we recorded in India in the 30 days to 13 October 2026; the entry-level roles on the board's Full-time tab are not counted here.
A posting only reaches the board if its employer is on a list we keep of companies we believe are real and actually pay interns. Most are not: we turned away about 272 listings for every one we published. That gate is the point of the site, and it is also the biggest thing to hold in mind when reading these numbers.
What these numbers are not
- This is not a census of every internship in India. It is a census of the ones that got past the gate above, so it describes the market a student would actually want to apply to rather than the whole of it.
- “Said nothing about pay” does not mean unpaid. It means the posting did not state a figure we could read. A genuinely unpaid role and one that simply never mentioned money are indistinguishable here, and we do not guess between them.
- Applicant counts are frozen at the moment we found the posting. They are what the listing reported then, not now, which is the whole reason a low one is worth acting on quickly.
- Only what employers state is counted. Skills, duration and working arrangements are read from the posting text, so a requirement that goes unmentioned is missing rather than absent.
Using these figures
They are free to quote with a link to this page. Cite them as measured on 13 October 2026. The page is regenerated daily, so the numbers move.