React is the dominant frontend framework in Indian hiring, which makes a React-specific title one of the most searchable and most competitive. The current market rewards depth over familiarity: state management beyond useState, performance profiling, and Next.js for rendering and routing. Pune demand spans product companies building dashboards and agencies delivering client applications. Because the candidate pool is large, the differentiator at interview is usually whether you can explain re-render behaviour and data-fetching strategy rather than whether you have used the library.