Engineering internships in India, by the numbers

Of 403 engineering internships in India in the last 30 days, only 36 said what they pay.

Measured over the 30 days to 28 August 2026 · 403 postings. Updated daily.

Only 36 of 403 engineering internships said what they pay

the other 367 say nothing about pay at all

36 of 403
30 internships had zero applicants when we found them

out of 236 that reported a count, and another 49 had fewer than ten

30 of 236
20% of internships already had over 100 applicants

48 of 236 that reported a count — applying late is applying to a queue

48 of 236
We list a new internship about 31 minutes after it goes up

median across 397 postings that carried a timestamp

31 of 397
169 companies posted engineering internships

across 403 listings — the busiest was Siemens with 21

169 of 403
Python was asked for in 36% of engineering internships

146 of 403 listings named it, ahead of SQL (85) and Git (70)

146 of 403
Only 11% of engineering internships are remote

40 of 365 that stated a mode — 260 are on-site

40 of 365
We turn away about 65 listings for every one we put on the board

26,308 refused of 28,312 cards seen — most are course sellers and unpaid "intern" schemes

26,308 of 28,312

How this was measured

We track engineering and software internships 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 posting we recorded in India in the 30 days to 28 August 2026.

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 65 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 28 August 2026 — the page is regenerated daily, so the numbers move.