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India GCC statistics

Global capability centers
in India, by the numbers.

Market size, workforce, revenue, office take-up and state policy, each with the publisher and the page we read it on. Where the widely quoted figure has no primary source, we say so instead of repeating it.

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2,117
GCCs in India, FY2026
2.36 million
people employed by them
$98.4 billion
revenue booked

India GCC market statistics

Eight figures that describe the market's size and direction. Two research firms disagree on 2025 office take-up, so both numbers are on the card rather than one of them picked.

Where the GCCs actually are

City-level counts are the weakest part of the public data: several widely circulated tables cite no underlying source at all. Only figures we could attribute are below.

State GCC policies in India

Four states have published a GCC policy or scheme we could source to an official page or the policy document itself.

  • Karnataka: Karnataka Global Capability Centres Policy 2024 to 2029

    Targets 500 new capability centres, taking the state past 1,000 by 2029, with 350,000 new jobs and $50 billion of economic output. Incentive bands include a Beyond Bengaluru tier for centres set up outside the capital.

    Government of Karnataka and India Briefing

  • Gujarat: Gujarat Global Capability Centre Policy 2025 to 2030

    Targets a minimum of 250 new GCC units, more than 50,000 jobs and Rs 10,000 crore of investment in the state.

    Department of Science and Technology, Government of Gujarat

  • Maharashtra: Maharashtra GCC Policy 2025

    Targets around 400 new GCCs and about 400,000 high skilled jobs by 2030 against Rs 50,600 crore of investment, with incentives to push centres to Nagpur, Nashik and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.

    Government of Maharashtra, Industries Department

  • Tamil Nadu: Special scheme to promote global capability centres

    A payroll subsidy scheme announced in the 2024 to 2025 state budget, running to March 2027, aimed at bringing 50 GCCs to the state. Eligibility is limited to Forbes Global 2000 and Fortune 1000 parents committing at least 200 direct jobs.

    Government of Tamil Nadu, 2024 to 2025 budget

Our own numbers, measured not surveyed

Everything above is somebody else's research. The table below is ours: 29.9M+ tracked professionals across the six metros, 1188 companies holding 25 or more people in one of them, and 536 verified global capability centres in our directory. Salary cells clear a 25-record publish gate or render as withheld. As of Aug 2026.

City Tracked professionals Companies with 25+ people Software engineer median Senior (6+ yrs) median City page
Bangalore 7.1M+ 1,000+ ₹15.7L ₹32.5L GCC in Bangalore
Hyderabad 5.3M+ 700+ ₹10.4L ₹24.2L GCC in Hyderabad
Chennai 4.1M+ 600+ ₹7.6L ₹19.1L GCC in Chennai
Mumbai 5.8M+ 700+ ₹9.7L ₹22.8L GCC in Mumbai
Pune 2.4M+ 500+ ₹9.5L ₹22.3L GCC in Pune
Delhi 5M+ 700+ ₹14.1L ₹24L GCC in Delhi

What we could not verify

These figures circulate widely and are not on this page, because no page we fetched actually carries them. If you have seen them cited, this is why we did not repeat them.

  • The '$99 to $105 billion by 2030' revenue range that circulates in press coverage. The nasscom page we fetched says 'around $100 bn' instead.
  • Per city GCC counts for Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi NCR. The only page carrying them cites no underlying source, so they are left out rather than repeated.
  • A national count of new GCCs opened in 2025 alone. Only the JLL 'over 200 in two years' figure and the Hyderabad specific count could be fetched.
  • Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh GCC policies. No official policy document could be fetched for any of them.
  • Any count of GCCs in tier-2 cities as a group.
On tier-2 cities, the one source that names them: EY India

More on GCCs in India

Common questions

2,117 in FY2026, across 3,728 individual centres, up 32 percent since FY2021, on Zinnov and nasscom, India GCC Landscape 2026's count. Counting conventions differ between reports: some count parent companies with a GCC, others count individual centres, and the two numbers are often quoted as if they were the same.

2.36 million in FY2026, up from about 1.9 million in FY2024, on Zinnov and nasscom, India GCC Landscape 2026's count.

$98.4 billion in FY2026, against $64.6 billion in FY2024. nasscom's own forecast is around $100 billion by 2030 with headcount past 2.5 million. The '$99 to $105 billion by 2030' range that circulates in press coverage does not appear on any primary page we could fetch, so it is not quoted here.

Karnataka. Its own government puts the state past 500 global capability centres, about 35 percent of India's GCC workforce and more than 600,000 GCC employees, with JLL putting Bangalore alone above 900 GCC units and 34 to 39 percent of the national market.

Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu have published a formal GCC policy or scheme we could source. Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are widely reported to have or be drafting one, but no official document could be fetched, so they are not listed here.

JLL counts over 200 new GCCs entering India in the two years to early 2026. We separately track 48 new centres and expansions announced since January 2025 that we could trace to a company statement or a named business publication, listed per city on the GCC directory pages.