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.
GCCs in India
across 3,728 units
Professionals employed
in India GCCs
GCC revenue
up 32% since FY2021
Forbes Global 2000 companies
with an Indian GCC
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What's inside
Six parts. Every figure sourced, every score explained.
- 01
The market in numbers
GCC count, units, headcount, revenue and the Forbes Global 2000 cohort, with five-year trend lines and sources.
- 02
Where new centers went
City share of new setups, sector by sector, and what it did to leadership compensation in each city.
- 03
The Location Intelligence index
Eleven cities across 6 dimensions and forty indicators, with the full scoring methodology and the changelog.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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