Annual report · edition Q3 2026

    The India GCC market report.

    Eleven cities, forty indicators, sector cuts for BFSI, SaaS, ER&D and healthcare, and the full methodology. Free for enterprise readers — sent by an engagement leader from a named mailbox, never an automated drip.

    2,117

    GCCs in India

    across 3,728 units

    2.36M

    Professionals employed

    in India GCCs

    $98.4B

    GCC revenue

    up 32% since FY2021

    506

    Forbes Global 2000 companies

    with an Indian GCC

    What's inside

    Six parts. Every figure sourced, every score explained.

    1. 01

      The market in numbers

      GCC count, units, headcount, revenue and the Forbes Global 2000 cohort, with five-year trend lines and sources.

    2. 02

      Where new centers went

      City share of new setups, sector by sector, and what it did to leadership compensation in each city.

    3. 03

      The Location Intelligence index

      Eleven cities across 6 dimensions and forty indicators, with the full scoring methodology and the changelog.

    4. 04

      Sector cuts

      BFSI, SaaS and product engineering, ER&D and healthcare — the role mix each sector actually hires, and the city that wins for it.

    5. 05

      Cost and the twelve setup months

      Fully loaded seat cost by city and level, rent bands by corridor, statutory tables and the setup-month opportunity cost most models omit.

    6. 06

      Engagement models compared

      BOT, GCC-as-a-Service, advisory, talent-only and rescue: who owns what, who pays what, and when the keys change hands.

    Coverage

    11 cities, scored the same way.

    Six Tier-1 cities in depth and five emerging cities as second-site options — the on-page index is free; the report adds the sector cuts and the year-on-year movement.

    • Bengaluru
    • Hyderabad
    • Pune
    • Chennai
    • Delhi NCR
    • Mumbai
    • Coimbatoreemerging
    • Ahmedabad / GIFT Cityemerging
    • Kochiemerging
    • Indoreemerging
    • Bhubaneswaremerging
    Use the index on the page first