According to a LinkedIn analysis from August 2014: 1) The majority (78,715) of companies in India have 1-10 employees, but these companies only account for 5.6% of total marketing employees. 2) Larger companies with over 10,000 employees make up only 0.4% of all companies but employ 66.8% of all marketing staff, with an average of 66 marketing employees per company. 3) In total, there were estimated to be around 132,000 marketing employees across all companies in India.

1. MARKETING PERSONNEL IN INDIA
Source : LinkedIn
No. of
Company Number of Marketing % Mktg mktg staff/
employee size companies All employees employees employees company
1-10 24,126 225,241 5,625 2.50 0.23
11-50 30,848 453,775 13,704 3.02 0.44
51-200 13,870 606,772 16,590 2.73 1.20
201-500 4,762 478,094 12,358 2.58 2.60
501-1000 2,242 475,642 12,104 2.54 5.40
1001-5000 2,034 1,018,049 22,701 2.23 11.16
5001-10000 386 576,109 10,938 1.90 28.34
10,000+ 447 2,956,495 29,867 1.01 66.82
All companies 78,715 6,790,177 123,887 1.82 1.57
Note :
1. Above data as on August 17, 2014
2. 'Marketing' employee = number of people with a job title which includes the
word 'marketing'.
3. Above is an undercount of total no. of companies and total number of employees
Total number of companies were 81,195 and total employees on LinkedIn were
24, 322,065, but no data is available for these other companies/employees.
4. Howver, another check for marketing employee numbers - via an advanced search
feature on LI showed a total of 132, 000 people across ALL companies.