At a glance
- 21,706 job listings in 30 days (100% of the 21,711 Tanqeeb reported)
- 43% in Dubai, and 57% of the listings that name an emirate
- 94% come from three boards: LinkedIn, Bayt and Naukri Gulf
- 12.8% show a salary; on LinkedIn, 5 of 7,693 do
- 1 in 7 listings is from a hotel
How the data was collected
Tanqeeb is a job aggregator with a site per country. It shows at most 10,000 results per search, and the UAE had 21,711 listings in the last 30 days, so a single search can't reach them all. The scraper (an Apify Actor) splits the collection into 36 smaller searches, by emirate and by category, then removes duplicates by listing ID. That reached 21,706 listings.
Tanqeeb's terms don't prohibit this, its robots.txt allows the pages used, and no personal data was kept: some listing cards include recruiter names, emails or phone numbers, and the scraper skips those fields.
1. Dubai carries 43% of the market
| Emirate | Listings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai | 9,325 | 43.0% |
| Abu Dhabi (incl. Al Ain) | 5,814 | 26.8% |
| Sharjah | 561 | 2.6% |
| Ras Al Khaimah | 284 | 1.3% |
| Ajman | 178 | 0.8% |
| Umm Al Quwain | 65 | 0.3% |
| Fujairah | 56 | 0.3% |
| No emirate given | 5,423 | 25.0% |
Dubai and Abu Dhabi together hold 69.7% of all listings. The five other emirates together hold 5.3%, less than an eighth of Dubai's count.
A quarter of listings name no emirate, and 93% of those come from Bayt, which often labels a job only "UAE". Among listings that do name an emirate, Dubai has 57%.
2. Three boards supply 94% of listings
LinkedIn is the source of 35.4% of the listings, Bayt 33.4% and Naukri Gulf 25.5%. GulfTalent is a distant fourth at 2.4%. Unlike Saudi Arabia, where LinkedIn led Bayt by 18 points, in the UAE the two are almost level.
3. The salary gap
Only 2,779 listings (12.8%) include a salary. The difference between boards is stark:
| Board | Listings | With a salary | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naukri Gulf | 5,531 | 2,085 | 37.7% |
| GulfTalent | 516 | 165 | 32.0% |
| Bayt | 7,241 | 439 | 6.1% |
| 7,693 | 5 | 0.1% |
Among the 2,312 listings with a salary in dirhams, the median advertised midpoint is AED 4,250 (mostly monthly). 10% are below AED 2,000 and 10% above AED 15,000. Treat that number carefully: nine in ten of these salaries come from Naukri Gulf (Bayt mostly gives salaries in US dollars), so it is not a market median. Another 467 salaries were given in US dollars or other currencies and are left out.
4. Hotels are hiring at scale
Hotels
By company name as published on Tanqeeb, the biggest poster was Al-Futtaim (624 listings), ahead of W Hotels (363), Accor (252), NMC Healthcare (251) and Aecom (213). Name variants of one company are merged here, for example "Al Futtaim Group" and "Al Futtaim Private Company (LLC)".
Counting hotels by company name (Marriott brands, W Hotels, Accor, Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, Hilton and others, or "Hotel" / "Resort" in the name) gives 3,164 listings, 14.6%: about one in every seven. Six of the top ten posters are hotel brands.
5. What the jobs look like
| Category | Listings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 2,303 | 10.6% |
| Sales | 2,289 | 10.5% |
| Hospitality & Tourism | 2,271 | 10.5% |
| Information Technology | 1,959 | 9.0% |
| Other | 1,622 | 7.5% |
| Accounting, Finance & Banking | 1,359 | 6.3% |
| Human Resources | 1,092 | 5.0% |
| Healthcare & Medical | 1,083 | 5.0% |
- 97.2% full-time and 96.5% on-site. Only 3.5% are remote or hybrid.
- Every job title is in English.
- 600 listings (2.8%) are aimed at Emiratis: the title says "Emirati", "UAE National" or "Emiratisation". Emiratisation can apply to other roles too; this only counts the listings that say so in the title.
- The most common titles: Sales Executive, Accountant, F&B Service Expert, Business Development Manager, Hotel Cleanliness Expert, Receptionist, Real Estate Agent.
6. When listings appear
- 653Sun
- 741Mon
- 742Tue
- 918Wed
- 837Thu
- 740Fri
- 338Sat
Wednesday is the busiest day for new listings (918 on average), followed by Thursday (837). Saturday, the first day of the UAE weekend, is the quietest (338), less than half of any weekday. Sunday, the other weekend day, still gets 653.
UAE and Saudi Arabia side by side
| UAE | Saudi Arabia | |
|---|---|---|
| Listings in 30 days | 21,706 | 17,941 |
| Top city / emirate share | Dubai 43.0% | Riyadh 35.5% |
| Listings with a salary | 12.8% | 7.3% |
| LinkedIn listings with a salary | 5 of 7,693 | 0 of 7,319 |
| Remote or hybrid | 3.5% | 2.8% |
| Titles in English | 100% | 99.4% |
What this data does not show
- These are listings on one aggregator, not every job in the UAE, and not hires.
- About 9% look like repeats: the same title, company and emirate posted more than once.
- One listing can cover several positions.
- A missing salary does not mean a job is unpaid; the employer just didn't publish it.
- Emirate and category are Tanqeeb's labels; the only changes: Al Ain merged into Abu Dhabi, JAFZA into Dubai, one misspelling fixed, and 7 non-UAE labels counted as "no emirate".