Super-specialised profiles – such as Hadoop developers in financial services, animators in ed-tech

and digital marketing heads in IT – may get handsome salary hikes despite a depressed job
market, says a TeamLease report. Such roles could see increments higher than 15%, even as salary
growth across industries may range from marginally positive to negative. Sectors with significant
work-from-home profiles, such as BFSI, tech startups and IT, are likely to benefit on account of
business continuity, the study says. Previous reports projected an average salary hike of 9% in 2020,
but India Inc has since started cutting costs aggressively.