National Informatics Centre Recruitment 2026 – 619 Posts, Online Apply

National Informatics Centre (NIC) has released two employment notifications for the recruitment of 619 Scientist-‘B’ and Scientific/ Technical Assistant-‘A’ posts. Interested and eligible candidates may apply online for these vacancy.

NIC Recruitment 2026

1. Scientist-‘B’ (Group ‘A’, Gazetted) 

No of posts: 243 posts

Category-wise vacancy:

# UR: 100
# SC: 36
# ST: 18
# OBC-NCL: 65
# EWS: 24
# PwBD: 10

Pay: Pay Level-10 (₹56,100 – ₹1,77,500)

Essential Educational Qualification: Bachelor Degree in Engineering OR Bachelor in Technology OR Department of Electronics and Accreditation of Computer Courses B-level OR Associate Member of Institute of Engineers OR Graduate Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers OR Master Degree in Science (MSc) OR Master Degree in Computer Application OR Master Degree in Engineering /Technology (ME /M.Tech) OR Master Degree in Philosophy (M Phil) in Electronics, Electronics and Communication, Computer Sciences, Communication, Computer and Networking Security, Computer Application, Software System, Information Technology, Information Technology Management, Informatics, Computer Management, Cyber law, Electronics and Instrumentation.

No of posts: 376 posts

Category-wise vacancy:

# UR: 154
# SC: 56
# ST: 28
# OBC-NCL: 101
# EWS: 37
# PwBD: 18

Pay: Pay Level-6 ( 35400 – 112400)

Essential Educational Qualification: A Pass in M.Sc./MS/MCA/B.E./B.Tech in Electronics, Electronics and Communication, Electronics & Telecommunication, Computer Sciences, Computer and Networking Security, Software System, Information Technology, Informatics.

Other Criteria of NIC Recruitment

Age Relaxation: Category-wise age relaxation is as mentioned below.

# SC/ ST: 5 years
# OBC: 3 years
# PwD (Unreserved): 10 years
# PwD (OBC): 13 years
# PwD (SC/ ST): 15 years

GATE Score: Candidates possessing the essential educational qualification and valid GATE Scores for the year 2024 / 2025 / 2026 in the following disciplines are eligible to apply:

(i) Computer Science and Information Technology (CS);
(ii) Electronics & Communication Engineering (EC); and
(iii) Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DA). 

Application Fee:

# UR: To be updated
# SC/ST/ PWD/ Women candidates: To be updated

How to Apply for National Informatics Centre Recruitment ?

Interested and eligible candidates may apply online for these vacancy through online mode by visiting NIC Recruitment Portal. Candidates may follow below mentioned steps to apply for NIC recruitment.

# Scroll down, go to Important Web-Links section .

# Click on the “Online Application Form” .

# Fill your all personal and educational details and upload necessary documents.

# Make payment of application fee as per your category and submit the form.

# At the end, take a print out of the application form .

The detailed advertisement will be available on NIC website https://recruitment.nic.in tentatively within 10 days from the date of announcement of result of GATE-2026. 

Important Dates of NIC Recruitment 2026

# Starting date of submission of online application: To be updated
# Last date of submission of online application: To be updated

Important Web-Links of NIC Vacancy