Accenture: IT’s fresher hiring set to double in FY26 with more than 150,000 additions

Fresher hiring in the technology services sector for the fiscal year starting April is projected to top 150,000, almost doubling from the previous year, according to data sourced by ET.

Fresh engineering graduates’ hiring is expected to exceed 150,000 next fiscal year, nearly double of that in FY25. The sector will likely end up adding 85,000–95,000 freshers to the workforce in the current fiscal, which ends this month, data from mass recruitment firm Teamlease showed.

Along similar lines, research and data firm UnearthInsight expects the fresher…