The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have yet again proven their exceptional placement performance in 2025, with top national and international companies vying for the brightest minds from India’s top engineering colleges. This year’s placement season has seen a wide range of records being broken, record high salary packages, more international offers, and companies from more diverse sectors attending the campus recruitment drives. So here’s a (rough) full picture of which companies are recruiting picking up on which salary issues, and the trends within the ever-morphing IIT scene.
Record-Breaking Numbers and Overall Trends
The very fact the 2024-25 placement season has been outstanding for IIT students appears to be an under-statement. As per the latest official figures, top IITs like IIT Delhi and Bombay have received over 1,200 job offers each, and more than 1,150 unique students have been placed in the first phase alone. What’s more heartening is the jump in offers in all salary buckets including the premium packages of more than one crore per annum. For instance, IIT Bombay has received 22 offers beyond the one crore mark in 2024-25 as against 16 in the previous year, a stupendous rise of 37.5%.
The highest salary package in India among IITs hovered at a staggering ₹2.2 crore per annum, offered by Da Vinci Derivatives, an IIT Bombay CSE student for a position at Amsterdam. Meanwhile, the international packages have gone even higher at the top IITs, with the highest international offer at IIT Bombay at ₹3.67 crore per annum. These figures signify an exceptionally lucrative market for the IIT graduates in India as well as abroad.
The Tech Giants Lead the Charge
With reference to hires from IITs, the large tech firms continue to dominate. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Qualcomm are the biggest recruiters in pretty much all the IITs. These companies — known as the MAANG or FAANG firms — compete fiercely for talent and are willing pay top packages for it.
At IITB, it was again Google, Microsoft, Amazon and NVIDIA that turned out to be the biggest hiring companies. IITB reports suggest, M.Tech CSE students from IIT Bombay got offers in the range of ₹30 to ₹46 LPA with an average of ₹30 LPA. The CSE students at IIT Delhi received even higher average packages, hovering at around ₹34 LPA and with maximum figures reaching as high as ₹48 LPA from Google, Microsoft and Atlassian.
Emerging Sectors and Diverse Opportunities
While technology continues to dominate recruitment, the 2025 placements season saw a considerable number of hiring from the finance, consulting, and core engineering domains. At IIT Delhi, the placement breakup shows that 34% of the total placement was in core technical companies, followed by
- IT – 20%,
- Consulting – 14% and
- Management – 13%.
This diversification is indicative of a changing career landscape for IIT graduates.
In the finance and consulting arena, companies such as Goldman Sachs, BCG (Boston Consulting Group), McKinsey, JP Morgan Chase, Barclays and American Express are well represented on IIT campuses. These firms provide typical packages between ₹35 and ₹45 LPA for beginners, with substantial growth in the money for high performers.
| Sector | Key Companies | Typical Package Range (LPA) | Offer Share % |
| Technology (IT) | Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Atlassian | 30-48 | 20% |
| Core Technical | Texas Instruments, Intel, Micron Tech, Tata, Reliance | 20-35 | 34% |
| Consulting | BCG, McKinsey, Barclays | 35-45 | 14% |
| Finance | Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, American Express | 35-45 | 4% |
| Management/Analytics | Meesho, OLA, PayU, Quadeye | 25-40 | 13% / 7% |
Average Packages and Salary Trends
There is now a trend in salaries in 2025 toward increasing when compared to past years. The average package offered by IIT Bombay rose from ₹21.8 LPA in 2023-24 to ₹23.5 LPA in 2024-25 – an increment of 7.7%. The average package reported by IIT Delhi is around ₹32 LPA for all programmes with an average of around ₹21.9 LPA being offered to BTech students and ₹32 LPA to MTech students. Students at IIT Kanpur were offered an average package of ₹ 26.27 LPA and IIT Madras continues to keep its average package competitive at approximately ₹17-20 LPA for all its programmes.
Interesting is also how salaries differ depending on branch. The best packages are still offered to Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), for which the median predefined offers also exceed ₹30 LPA at top IITs. After that comes Electrical Engineering and then mechanical, civil engineering students generally get packages between ₹15-25 LPA based on which sector they go for.
Global Opportunities and International Offers
Among the most eye-popping trends in the 2025 placement season has been the uptick in overseas offers. With all-India (national) offers counting towards overall highest packages, IIT Delhi witnessed more than 50 international offers in Phase 1 from over 15 companies across countries including USA, Japan, Netherlands, South Korea, Taiwan, UAE, and the UK. This indicates rising global demand and better pay packages for graduate-level engineers from India, as well as multinational companies increasingly hiring IIT graduates for global roles.
The salaries of firms providing roles for the international are notably higher, which is between 30-50% increase on domestic norms especially for roles in developed countries. The offer by Da Vinci Derivatives of ₹3.67 crore for an Amsterdam is an illustration of this trend.
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Sector-Wise Breakdown and Career Paths
Recruitment has gotten more and more multifaceted. Although software development engineers and data scientists are paid the most in the tech industry, core engineering roles, especially at companies such as Tata, Reliance, BPCL and Schlumberger, lure students focused on manufacturing, energy and infrastructure.
Public sector undertakings (PSUs): Organisations PSU are – ISRO, DRDO, BARC they always remain to be answer to bring in the best brains, it’s just the pay package is slightly low, but they offer Job Security, Prestige, and for those who want to make a long term career they offer Career Growth.
Zomato, Ola, Swiggy, Flipkart and other startups/unicorns have also been leading recruiters, especially for those students who are attracted to growing-stage companies and entrepreneurial environments. These companies usually have competitive packages including stock options and have energetic work cultures.
Lowest Packages and Market Reality For IITians
While the highest salaries make the headlines, it is essential to look at the overall picture. At IIT Bombay, the lowest packages were reported at ₹4 LPA for the year 2024-25, a steep fall from the ₹5.4 LPA in the previous year. This decrease is indicative of the tightening recruitment at entry level by companies and the influence of economic cycles on entry-level jobs in certain industries.
Tips for IIT Students in the Current Job Market
IIT students now who are about to go in for placements can glean quite a few pointers from 2025 trends.
- For one, technical excellence and programming ability especially would be unlikely to diminish for technology roles.
- Second, gaining domain knowledge through internships greatly enhances placement potential– internship conversion rates to PPOs (Pre-Placement Offer) continue to be robust at most IITs.
- Third, the increasing number of AI and data analytics positions means that skills in machine learning and data science can be extremely useful.
- And finally, don’t forget that foreign opportunities may lead to significantly better paychecks and career advancement.
Conclusion
The placement seasons of IIT’s in 2024-25 can undoubtedly be called as a landmark year with the highest ever packages, varied sectoral participation and opportunities extending across the globe. With companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Goldman Sachs battling for top talent and average pay packages trending upward, IIT graduates continue to be among the most in-demand professionals in India and beyond.
Adaptable, knowledgeable, and able to think critically—even in the face of rapidly changing landscapes in higher education and the corporate world— these qualities among others that IIT students possess which ensures that they are valuable assets to employers across the globe.
For prospective engineers dreaming of trying out for IIT admissions, these placement trends act as a strong inspiration showing how great career and financial benefits await them, down the line, if they make it to these premier institutions.
