How much do recruitment agencies in Delhi charge, and what does the fee cover?

Most Delhi consultancies charge 8.33% of annual CTC, one month's salary, rising to 10 to 20% for policy, legal, and leadership mandates. Hyring charges a flat 7%. It covers sourcing, AI first-round interviews, recruiter validation, portal access, offer support, and the replacement guarantee. Contract staffing, payroll, background verification, RPO, and employer of record are quoted separately.

Does Hyring recruit for policy, legal, and development sector roles?

Yes, and these are Delhi's genuinely distinctive pools. Public affairs, regulatory, legal counsel, programme management, and donor-facing roles are screened with scenario-based interviewing that assesses judgement and stakeholder understanding rather than technical tests.

Should we benchmark salaries against Delhi or the whole NCR?

The whole NCR. Metro connectivity means candidates evaluate Delhi, Gurugram, and Noida roles together, so your real competition includes employers across all three. Benchmarking against Delhi alone consistently produces offers that lose to Gurugram.

Which areas of Delhi does Hyring recruit across?

All of them: Connaught Place and Barakhamba Road, Aerocity, Nehru Place, Okhla, and the wider city, plus the NCR markets of Gurugram and Noida where candidates frequently consider roles alongside Delhi ones.

How does hiring in Delhi differ from Gurugram?

Delhi holds the policy, legal, media, and development sector depth; Gurugram holds the multinational headquarters, consulting, and fintech concentration. For corporate and technology roles the pools overlap heavily, which is why the two should be treated as one market with different employer profiles.

How fast can Hyring close a position in Delhi?

Shortlists with AI interview recordings typically arrive in 48 to 72 hours. Notice periods commonly run 30 to 60 days, though policy, legal, and development sector roles often move on longer project-linked timelines.

How do I review candidates and share feedback with my team?

Everything runs in your Hyring portal. Every candidate is uploaded with resume, AI interview recording, and calibrated scores, moving through clear stages your whole team can see. Feedback is captured on the candidate profile instead of email chains, and panel interviews are scheduled and held in Hyring Meet, our own video platform.

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Recruitment Agency in Delhi

Hyring recruits across Delhi at a flat 7% of CTC, in a city that holds talent pools no other Indian market has: policy, law, media, and the country's entire development sector.

Last updated on: July 23, 2026Read time: 9 mins

Written byAdithyan RKFact checked bySurya N

Flat fee on CTC, direct hire

48–72h

AI-screened shortlist

900K+

AI interviews conducted

NCR

One market, three employer profiles

Hyring is an AI-native recruitment agency recruiting across Delhi at a flat 7% of CTC, covering corporate functions, public policy and government affairs, legal, media, the development sector, and technology. Every candidate you review has already completed a first-round AI interview.

Delhi is usually discussed as one third of NCR, which is fair for engineering and corporate hiring and misleading for everything else. The city holds four talent pools that exist nowhere else in India at this depth: public policy and government affairs, built around the machinery of national government; legal, anchored by the Supreme Court and the country's largest concentration of law firms; media and journalism; and the development sector, where multilateral agencies, foundations, and large non-profits employ more people than in the rest of India combined. If you are hiring for any of those, Delhi is not one option among several. It is the market.

Delhi Hiring Data

Delhi holds India's deepest talent pools in public policy, law, media, and the development sector, alongside corporate and technology hiring shared across the NCR labour market.

Two structural facts and two observations from our screening activity, because NCR mobility is the factor most employers underestimate here.

India's centre for policy, legal, and development sector employment

Government affairs, regulatory, legal, and non-profit roles are locally fillable here in a way they are not in any other Indian city.

Industry reporting, latest available

NCR

One integrated labour market across Delhi, Gurugram, and Noida

Metro connectivity means candidates evaluate roles across all three, so you compete with employers in cities you did not think you were competing with.

NCR Planning Board

Cross-NCR

Candidate consideration is regional, not city-specific

A Delhi-resident candidate will weigh Gurugram and Noida offers alongside yours. Benchmark against NCR, not against Delhi alone.

Hyring screening observation, 2026

30–60

Days typical notice period

Shorter than Mumbai BFSI, though policy, legal, and development sector roles often move on longer, project-linked timelines.

Hyring screening observation, 2026

The Delhi Hiring Market in 2026

Delhi hiring spans corporate headquarters, policy and government affairs, legal, media, and the development sector, within an NCR labour market that candidates treat as one.

Corporate employment concentrates around Connaught Place and Barakhamba Road, with Aerocity emerging as a newer corporate cluster and Nehru Place retaining its long-standing technology trading and services base. Okhla supports manufacturing, printing, and logistics. But the roles that make Delhi distinctive sit outside these districts entirely, in law firms clustered around the courts, in policy shops and industry associations, in newsrooms, and in the offices of multilateral agencies and foundations.

Those pools require different screening. A public affairs hire is assessed on regulatory understanding, stakeholder networks, and judgement rather than on a technical test. A development sector role weights programme design, donor reporting, and field experience. Our AI video interview is configured accordingly, using scenario-based questioning rather than the coding or finance rubrics that suit other markets. Employers who brief these roles to a generalist IT-focused consultancy typically receive shortlists of people who have the right job titles and none of the right judgement.

The NCR dynamic deserves planning attention. Metro connectivity has made Delhi, Gurugram, and Noida a single candidate market in a way Mumbai and Pune never became. A candidate living in South Delhi will genuinely consider all three, which means your competition includes employers you were not tracking, and your salary benchmark should be regional rather than city-specific. We screen for location preference explicitly, because a candidate who will not cross the city for a commute is a different prospect from one who already does.

What Top Roles Pay in Delhi

Delhi salaries track NCR levels broadly, with policy, legal, and development sector roles following their own bands rather than corporate benchmarks.

Indicative Delhi salary ranges, 2026 (verify current data in our salary benchmarks)

Role	3–5 yrs experience	6–9 yrs experience	Hyring fee at 7% (mid-range)
Software Engineer	₹9–16 LPA	₹20–36 LPA	₹63,000 – ₹1.96 lakh
Public Policy / Government Affairs Manager	₹10–18 LPA	₹20–40 LPA	₹70,000 – ₹2.10 lakh
Legal Counsel	₹9–17 LPA	₹20–40 LPA	₹63,000 – ₹2.10 lakh
Programme Manager (development sector)	₹7–13 LPA	₹15–28 LPA	₹49,000 – ₹1.51 lakh
Finance / Accounts Manager	₹7–13 LPA	₹15–28 LPA	₹49,000 – ₹1.51 lakh
Content / Communications Lead	₹7–12 LPA	₹14–26 LPA	₹49,000 – ₹1.40 lakh

Development sector roles sit on donor-funded bands that rarely match corporate equivalents, so benchmark them against the sector rather than against the city. Full data across 93 roles sits in our free salary benchmarks.

Recruitment Agency Fees in Delhi, Compared

Local agencies typically charge one month's CTC, 8.33%, rising to 10 to 20% for specialist roles, against Hyring's published flat 7%.

Policy, legal, and leadership mandates are exactly where consultancies quote the top of the range. On an ₹18 LPA hire, a flat 7% is ₹1.26 lakh against up to ₹3.6 lakh at 20%.

Fee on a ₹18 LPA hire in Delhi

Conventions are typical market practice; the Hyring fee is published

Fact

Candidates never pay Hyring anything. Jobseekers apply free through Hyring Jobs, interview free, and prepare free with the Jobseeker Toolkit and interview questions library. Any consultancy charging candidates a placement fee is one to walk away from.

How Hyring Delivers in Delhi

Every candidate arrives pre-interviewed by AI, sourced by thousands of recruiting partners, and tracked in one portal instead of an email chain.

In a market where judgement matters more than technical assessment for a large share of roles, scenario-based interviewing surfaces what a resume of impressive titles cannot. Six things run behind every shortlist:

Round one, already done

Every candidate completes an AI first round before you see them: video, coding, phone, or the English test where communication carries the role.

Every applicant ranked

The AI Resume Screener scores the full funnel against your brief, so nothing good gets buried under volume.

A video-first talent pool

Candidates join through Hyring Jobs, presenting on camera and interviewing as they apply. The database is assessed, not just collected.

Thousands of recruiters, not one

The Recruiting Partners network puts specialist recruiters on your role, paid on placements, every submission passing the same screen.

Panel rounds in Hyring Meet

Interviews are scheduled and held in Hyring Meet, our own video platform, so invites and recordings stay attached to the candidate record.

Transparency after the hire

Augmented teams run on Insight by Hyring: tracked hours and focus patterns, employees seeing their own data first. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified.

All of it lands in one portal: every candidate uploaded with recording and score attached, clear stages your whole team can see, and feedback captured on the profile instead of a WhatsApp thread nobody can audit later.

The Full Service Stack in Delhi

Direct hire at a flat 7% anchors a stack covering RPO, staff augmentation, IT staff augmentation, employer of record, and global hiring.

Services available to Delhi employers

Service	Best for	Pricing shape
Direct hire	Permanent roles across functions	Flat 7% of CTC
RPO services	Outsourcing part or all of recruitment	~30% below big-firm quotes
Staff augmentation	Dedicated professionals on your projects	~30% below big-firm quotes
IT staff augmentation	Engineering teams ramped fast	~30% below big-firm quotes
Employer of record	Global companies employing here without an entity	Per-employee monthly
Global hiring	Local companies building teams abroad	14% rest of world, 7% India

Delhi sees steady demand for RPO from organisations hiring across several of these distinct pools at once, where a single consultancy rarely has credible reach into policy, legal, and technology simultaneously.

Hyring vs a Local Consultancy or In-House Team

Hyring fits employers who want published fees and interview evidence; a local consultancy still fits narrow trades where one recruiter owns the community.

Four ways to fill a Delhi role

Decision factor	Hyring	Local consultancy	National or global firm	In-house TA
Fee	Published flat 7% of CTC	Usually 8.33%, unpublished	15–20% typical	Salaries, tools, and job ads
First-round evidence	AI interview recordings and scores on every candidate	Recruiter's phone screen notes	Varies by practice and tier	Whatever your process produces
Employer visibility	Live portal: stages, evidence, decisions	Email, calls, and WhatsApp	Reporting on larger accounts	Your own ATS
Reach beyond Delhi	National database and partner network	Usually one city or region	Metro offices	Wherever your brand reaches
Best fit	Policy, legal, media, development sector, and corporate hiring across NCR	Narrow trades with a tight local community	Multi-city leadership mandates	Steady, predictable hiring volume

Written by

Adithyan RK

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CEO & Co-founder, Hyring

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Adithyan RK is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hyring, an AI-native recruitment platform that has run over 900,000 AI interviews for companies ranging from early-stage startups to the Fortune 500. He has spent 18 years building technology businesses, starting with a digital consultancy in 2008 and a staff augmentation firm in 2017, before founding Hyring in 2022 to rebuild hiring around evidence instead of guesswork. Read more

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CTO & Co-founder, Hyring

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Surya N is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hyring, where he architected the AI interviewing engine that has now conducted over 900,000 interviews for companies ranging from early-stage startups to the Fortune 500. A mechanical engineer who moved into artificial intelligence, he spent 6 years building AI applications inside a technology consultancy before co-founding Hyring, and wrote the first version of its AI interviewer from scratch. Read more

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Hyring recruits across Delhi at a flat 7% of CTC, covering corporate functions, public policy and government affairs, legal, media, the development sector, and technology. Every candidate completes an AI first-round interview before you review them, with shortlists in 48 to 72 hours.