A fast-read primer on India's IT-software and technology sector — the backdrop against which we benchmark every company's cost structure in this category.
India's share of the world's technical talent pool keeps growing, alongside a fast-expanding overall workforce.
STEM talent pool vs. software engineering professionals
2017-18 → 2023-24
A huge talent pool, rising R&D investment, and a supportive policy framework define the sector.
A sample of the industry-wide and policy moves shaping the sector through early 2026.
Listed Indian IT-Software companies in tDoBe's cost-benchmarking coverage.
The market facts above are public background. What follows is tDoBe's own work: every "Other Expenses" line from these companies' own financial records, read by hand and sorted into one clear set of categories — not a keyword search, not each company's own way of reporting it.
Each mark is one company's total Other Expenses as % of net revenue. No company is named here.
Ranked from biggest to smallest.
IT & Software spend leads the category list, followed by general overheads and travel — a straightforward reflection of what a software business actually spends money on.
This is one of the widest ranges we've measured. Companies in this sector report subcontracted and outsourced delivery work very differently in their own filings — that reporting difference, more than any underlying gap in efficiency, is the single biggest driver of the spread.
We use each company's own standalone financial records — not group numbers, not each company's own labels. Every cost line is read by hand and placed into one common set of categories, so every company is compared the same way.
This is the free, sector-wide view. It tells you where IT Software stands as a whole — not where your own company stands against it, category by category, in rupees.
A below-average number is a reason to call too — the benchmark keeps improving as we go.