Gulf job market pulse
How many jobs are open right now, how many new ones appeared, and which fields and employers are hiring. Counted daily from employer career pages and job boards.
Jobs open now
27,525
UAE 12,083, Saudi Arabia 11,358, Qatar 1,834
New jobs, last 30 days
21,361
Hiring trend vs the previous 30 days: +6%
Jobs closed, last 30 days
13,432
Filled, expired or taken down by the employer
New and closed jobs, week by week
The last 12 complete weeks, for employers we were already tracking at the start, so new sources never look like a hiring spike.
27 Jul
3 Aug
10 Aug
17 Aug
24 Aug
31 Aug
7 Sept
14 Sept
21 Sept
New jobs Closed jobs
Which fields are hiring
New jobs in the last 30 days, and the change against the 30 days before.
| Field | New jobs | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering & Technology | 1,199 | -8% |
| Hospitality & Tourism | 921 | +13% |
| Sales & Business Development | 833 | -6% |
| Operations & Logistics | 586 | +39% |
| Finance & Accounting | 541 | +13% |
| Education & Training | 488 | +101% |
| Construction & Engineering | 475 | +27% |
| Executive & Management | 271 | +24% |
| Marketing & Communications | 246 | +15% |
| Healthcare & Medical | 238 | -11% |
| Human Resources | 227 | +57% |
| Administrative | 225 | +8% |
| Legal & Compliance | 136 | +6% |
| Data & Analytics | 116 | -22% |
| Customer Support | 114 | +27% |
| Product Management | 92 | -16% |
| Design & Creative | 81 | -7% |
| Real Estate & Property | 75 | too early to tell |
| AI & Machine Learning | 24 | -50% |
Most active employers
By new jobs posted in the last 30 days.
- 1Marriott International863
- 2Hilton498
- 3Accor365
- 4Dubai Careers353
- 5GEMS Education346
- 6Parsons255
- 7Rotana Hotels235
- 8IHG Hotels & Resorts229
- 9AECOM222
- 10Radisson Hotel Group211
Where the new jobs are
New jobs in the last 30 days, by city.
- Dubai8,156
- Riyadh4,310
- Abu Dhabi2,835
- Doha1,230
- Jeddah592
- Kuwait City587
- Manama426
- Muscat426
- Sharjah329
- Dammam303
How we count
- Jobs open now are live listings on JobXDubai: collected daily from employer career pages and job boards, checked for dead links, with duplicates removed.
- A new job is a listing we first saw within 14 days of its posting date, so an employer's backlog of old adverts never counts as fresh hiring.
- Trends compare like with like: only employers we were already tracking before the period began. When we add a new source, its jobs count as open jobs but not as growth.
- We only show a percentage change once there is enough history to compare: at least 300 new jobs in the earlier period (30 for a single field). Below that, small numbers swing too much to mean anything.
- Closed jobs were filled, expired or taken down by the employer.
- Tracking began UAE: July 2026, Oman: July 2026, Saudi Arabia: July 2026. Updated 1 October 2026.
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