JobRise Hiring Report · October 2026
Hiring in the United Arab Emirates
Published October 14, 2026 · Data as of October 14, 2026 at 9:58 PM UTC
Open jobs1,861
New in the last 7 days31617% of open jobs
New in the last 30 days93150% of open jobs
Remote share6%of 1,410 jobs from sources that mark remote work
1Key findings
- 50% of open jobs were posted in the last 30 days, and 17% in the last 7 days.
- The largest category is sales jobs, with 259 open jobs (14% of the total).
- Government of Dubai has the most openings: 316 (17%). The top 15 employers hold 64% of all open jobs.
- Dubai has 46% of open jobs in the United Arab Emirates (854 jobs).
- 6% of the jobs from sources that mark remote work are remote (84 of 1,410).
- The busiest posting day in the last 30 days was October 13, 2026, with 72 new jobs.
2New jobs per day
3Top hiring companies
4Jobs by category
| Category | Open jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 408 | 22% |
| Sales jobs | 259 | 14% |
| Finance jobs | 211 | 11% |
| Operations jobs | 122 | 6.6% |
| Engineering jobs | 106 | 5.7% |
| Marketing jobs | 97 | 5.2% |
| Admin jobs | 81 | 4.4% |
| Software jobs | 76 | 4.1% |
| Healthcare jobs | 64 | 3.4% |
| Data & AI jobs | 61 | 3.3% |
| Customer support jobs | 45 | 2.4% |
| Design jobs | 45 | 2.4% |
| Skilled trades jobs | 45 | 2.4% |
| Internships | 38 | 2% |
| Logistics jobs | 35 | 1.9% |
| Education jobs | 34 | 1.8% |
| Retail jobs | 34 | 1.8% |
| Hospitality jobs | 33 | 1.8% |
| HR jobs | 30 | 1.6% |
| Construction jobs | 23 | 1.2% |
| Manufacturing jobs | 14 | 0.8% |
5Top cities
| City | Open jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai | 854 | 46% |
| Abu Dhabi | 372 | 20% |
| UAE Only | 281 | 15% |
| Sharjah | 43 | 2.3% |
| All Nationalities | 35 | 1.9% |
| Rabdan Street | 32 | 1.7% |
| ARE | 13 | 0.7% |
| Al Ain | 8 | 0.4% |
| Ras Al-Khaimah | 7 | 0.4% |
| UAE Abu Dhabi | 5 | 0.3% |
6Data sources
| Source | Open jobs | Share | Marks remote jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| TimesJobs | 421 | 23% | Yes |
| Taleo | 316 | 17% | Yes |
| Workable | 178 | 9.6% | No |
| Workday | 173 | 9.3% | Yes |
| Oracle Recruiting | 171 | 9.2% | No |
| Greenhouse | 146 | 7.8% | Yes |
| Recruitee | 136 | 7.3% | Yes |
| Phenom | 97 | 5.2% | No |
| BambooHR | 60 | 3.2% | Yes |
| Ashby | 55 | 3% | Yes |
| Himalayas | 49 | 2.6% | Yes |
| Lever | 22 | 1.2% | Yes |
| Personio | 17 | 0.9% | Yes |
| Lever EU | 10 | 0.5% | Yes |
| Capgemini | 4 | 0.2% | No |
| SuccessFactors | 4 | 0.2% | Yes |
| MyCareersFuture | 1 | 0.1% | No |
| Teamtailor | 1 | 0.1% | Yes |
7How we count
- Sources: employers' career pages and public job APIs, collected by JobRise. Largest sources in this report: TimesJobs (421), Taleo (316), Workable (178), Workday (173), Oracle Recruiting (171).
- Duplicates are removed: a role listed on several sources is counted once, matched on company and job title.
- Counts are of jobs open on October 14, 2026 at 9:58 PM UTC. Each job counts once, in the country of its location, or as remote. A country's remote share counts remote roles limited to applicants in that country.
- A job listed in several places counts once, in the country of the first place listed. Jobs whose source gives no single country count only in the global report.
- New jobs use the employer's posting date. If the employer gives none, or a later "updated" date, we use the date JobRise first saw the listing. Listings already live when tracking began on October 14, 2026 have no known date (135 jobs here) and are left out of new-job counts. Daily counts include only jobs still open, so older days are undercounted. Days are UTC calendar days and the last day is partial.
- Remote share counts only jobs from sources that mark whether a job is remote (see Data sources): 1,410 of the 1,861 jobs here.
- Categories come from the job title and department, using keyword rules. Roles that match no rule are counted as Other.
- Company names are shown as listed. Staffing agencies count as the employer named on the posting.
8Cite this report
Copy and paste:
Source: JobRise Hiring Report, October 2026, jobrise.io/en/reports/hiring/united-arab-emirates/