Dubai, United Arab Emirates job market
Quarterly labor market data for Dubai, United Arab Emirates – based on job postings indexed by JobLeads. Updated every quarter. Currently showing Q2 2026.
New job postings per quarter in Dubai
All industries · Q1 2025 to Q2 2026
- 78,00278.0k
- −14%
- 5.9
- Dubai · all industries
| Quarter | Dubai · all industries | |
|---|---|---|
| New job postings | QoQ change | |
| Q1 2025 | 103,821 | – |
| Q2 2025 | 97,180 | −6% |
| Q3 2025 | 85,517 | −12% |
| Q4 2025 | 98,941 | +16% |
| Q1 2026 | 90,148 | −9% |
| Q2 2026 | 78,002 | −14% |
New postings per company in Dubai
All industries · new postings ÷ distinct hiring companies
- Dubai · all industries
| Quarter | Dubai · all industries | |
|---|---|---|
| Jobs per company | QoQ change | |
| Q1 2025 | 5.7 | – |
| Q2 2025 | 6.1 | +7% |
| Q3 2025 | 5.7 | −8% |
| Q4 2025 | 6.3 | +11% |
| Q1 2026 | 6.4 | +2% |
| Q2 2026 | 5.9 | −8% |
Time a job stays active in Dubai
All industries · Q2 2026 · median days a posting stays online
- Dubai · all industries · median
- Middle 50% of postings
| Quarter | Dubai · all industries · median | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Median days | Middle 50% of postings | QoQ change | |
| Q1 2025 | 11 d | 5 d–22 d | – |
| Q2 2025 | 14 d | 5 d–28 d | +27% |
| Q3 2025 | 11 d | 5 d–26 d | −21% |
| Q4 2025 | 10 d | 5 d–24 d | −9% |
| Q1 2026 | 13 d | 6 d–26 d | +30% |
| Q2 2026 | 15 d | 7 d–25 d | +15% |
Is Dubai growing faster or slower than United Arab Emirates?
All industries · new postings indexed to 100 at Q1 2025
- Dubai (city)
- United Arab Emirates (country)
| Quarter | Dubai (city) | United Arab Emirates (country) |
|---|---|---|
| Index | Index | |
| Q1 2025 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Q2 2025 | 93.6 | 83.5 |
| Q3 2025 | 82.4 | 72.0 |
| Q4 2025 | 95.3 | 83.9 |
| Q1 2026 | 86.8 | 79.7 |
| Q2 2026 | 75.1 | 70.5 |
QoQ growth gap vs baseline
- Q2 2026 · vs United Arab Emirates
- −1.9 pp
New job postings by industry in Dubai
All industries · Q2 2026
| Breakdown | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Management & Operations | 22.5% | |
| Engineering | 11.1% | |
| IT & Technology | 10.9% | |
| Finance | 10.8% | |
| Marketing & Media | 8.2% | |
| Sales | 7.9% | |
| Bio & Pharmacology & Health | 5.5% | |
| Human Resources | 4.3% | |
| Consulting | 4.1% | |
| Legal | 1.1% | |
| Other industries | 13.7% | |
Diversified
No single industry exceeds 22.5%. The labor market is broadly balanced across sectors.
New job postings by seniority in Dubai
All industries · Q2 2026 · vs national average
| Breakdown | Share | vs national average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Specialist | 72.0% | −0.6 pp | |
| Leads and Managers | 19.0% | −0.1 pp | |
| Heads and VPs | 8.0% | +0.6 pp | |
| C-Suite | 1.1% | +0.1 pp | |
New job postings by salary band in Dubai
All industries · Q2 2026 · estimated salary distribution*
| Salary band | Share | vs prev. quarter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under AED 80K | 22.0% | +3.7 pp | |
| AED 80K–AED 150K | 27.1% | +2.5 pp | |
| AED 150K–AED 210K | 13.5% | −4.6 pp | |
| AED 210K–AED 320K | 20.1% | −1.0 pp | |
| AED 320K+ | 17.3% | −0.6 pp | |
*Salary bands are based on JobLeads’ estimated salary per posting, independent of whether the ad states pay, and based on historical and current data available. For US cities, bands use fixed dollar thresholds; elsewhere, bands are calculated separately for each city and shown in the city’s local currency, so they reflect local salary levels. Read them as indicative.
New remote, hybrid, and on-site jobs in Dubai
All industries · Q1 2026 (latest work setting data)
| Breakdown | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| On-site | 93.0% | |
| Hybrid | 4.5% | |
| Remote | 2.4% | |
What this data shows
What we track
Job Market Statistics by City summarizes the online job market across selected cities: the capital or biggest city of every US state, and the leading city of each country where JobLeads operates. The roster grows with every release – we currently track 98 cities, and the full list ships with the data download. City pages go live in waves as localized versions are ready; every tracked city is already included in the download. The tracker is built from job postings gathered across the web; duplicates are removed before anything is counted. The headline figure is the number of new postings that first appeared in a city each quarter, tracked from the start of 2025.
Reading the numbers
Our coverage of the online job market grows as we add sources, so we report quarter-over-quarter changes rather than year-over-year, alongside jobs per company – new postings divided by distinct hiring companies – as a simple check on what’s driving growth. “Time a job stays active” is the median number of days a posting stays online before it is removed; it reflects how long employers keep ads up, not how long the hiring process takes. The city-vs-country comparison rebases every line to 100, so it tracks relative growth rather than raw volume; this view is experimental.
Salaries and confidence
Salary bands are based on JobLeads’ estimated salary per posting, independent of whether the ad states pay, and based on historical and current data available. For US cities, bands use fixed dollar thresholds; elsewhere, bands are calculated separately for each city and shown in the city’s local currency, so they reflect local salary levels. Read them as indicative. Salary bands are shown only where the underlying estimates pass our quality check, so an individual quarter can be missing. Any figure based on very few postings is flagged as low-confidence. Data updates quarterly. Free to use with attribution: credit JobLeads and link to this page. This page currently shows Q2 2026.
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Source: JobLeads Job Index. Based on deduplicated job postings from 400,000+ sources. Updated 8 Oct 2026.