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Job Postings Data across MENA, Country by Country

240,567,432Live postings in the dataset

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MENA job postings over time · Nov 2022 → Aug 2026

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Sources covering MENA
357,084

Sources

Postings in Aug 2026
10,694,461
Advertised as remote
15.0%

Workplace Types

History from
Nov 2022

TheirStack tracks 240,567,432 job postings in MENA, collected from 357,084 distinct sources (data as of September 2026).

MENA job postings by country and source

Share of MENA volume by source, current month.

Sources
SourcesJob postings
01indeed.com41.2%
02linkedin.com17.8%
03myworkdayjobs.com2.5%
04icims.com0.9%
05naukri.com0.8%
06seek.com.au0.7%
07smartrecruiters.com0.7%
08infojobs.net0.7%
09adp.com0.7%
10oraclecloud.com0.6%

Market note

MENA is dominated by the Gulf, and Gulf hiring has a shape you will not see elsewhere: a large share of postings target expatriate candidates, are written in English, and come through regional boards — Bayt and GulfTalent — rather than through employer career pages. North African volume is smaller and more likely to be in French or Arabic. The country table below makes the split explicit before you commit to a filter.

Countries

Share of MENA volume by country, ranked.

Countries
CountriesJob postings
01United States34.5%
02United Kingdom6.6%
03India5.9%
04France5.2%
054.5%
06Germany4.3%
07Canada4.2%
08Brazil3.7%
09Japan3.6%
10Spain2.6%

Rows in the Countries table link through to that country's own page where we publish one.

Workplace Types

Share of MENA postings by advertised setup.

Workplace Types
Workplace TypesJob postings
01On site70.1%
02Remote15.0%
03Hybrid14.9%

MENA jobs API

The same query behind every number on this page.

Filter the Jobs Search API to MENA with job_country_code_or:

{
    "job_country_code_or": [
        "AE",
        "AL",
        "BH",
        "CY",
        "DZ",
        "EG",
        "EH",
        "ER"
    ],
    "posted_at_max_age_days": 30,
    "include_total_results": true,
    "limit": 25
}

Monthly MENA postings

Monthly job postings in MENA — last 24 months
MonthJob postingsMoM
September 2026in progress3,455,794
August 202610,694,461-2.9%
July 202611,010,167+3.1%
June 202610,674,862+6.9%
May 20269,986,619+4.6%
April 20269,551,711-1.7%
March 20269,719,498+3.2%
February 20269,418,787+1.4%
January 20269,293,024+32.3%
December 20257,025,467+20.8%
November 20255,813,798-15.1%
October 20256,845,701+0.1%
September 20256,840,476+17.3%
August 20255,829,335-1.0%
July 20255,887,184+11.9%
June 20255,259,145+2.2%
May 20255,144,022-24.7%
April 20256,831,737-5.3%
March 20257,214,047+4.1%
February 20256,927,344-9.0%
January 20257,615,417+56.7%
December 20244,859,178-2.4%
November 20244,978,165-12.2%
October 20245,672,965

Frequently asked questions

How many job postings are there in MENA?

The live counter above, across the Middle East and North Africa.

Which MENA countries have the most job postings?

The Countries table above, ranked live. The UAE and Saudi Arabia are normally well ahead.

What languages are MENA postings written in?

English is very common in the Gulf, particularly for expatriate-targeted roles; Arabic is used throughout, and French is common in the Maghreb. An English-only filter will cover the Gulf reasonably and under-count North Africa badly.

Which job boards cover the region?

Bayt and GulfTalent regionally, plus Indeed, LinkedIn and the ATS platforms multinationals run. The Sources table above ranks the current month; the full source list is complete.

Get MENA job postings data

Browse the jobs dataset or pull MENA postings on a schedule through the job posting API. Checking volumes first is free: a job search filtered to MENA returns the matching count without consuming credits.

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Methodology

  • What we count. Individual online job postings, not survey-based vacancy estimates. A posting is counted once, on the date it was published.
  • Where they come from. Job boards, company career pages behind applicant tracking systems, and aggregators — see the full source list.
  • Deduplication. The same role published on several boards is merged into one posting, so multi-source coverage inflates neither counts nor trends.
  • Geography. A posting counts towards a country when any of its locations resolve to that country, so a multi-country posting is counted in each. Country breakdown tables instead attribute each posting to its primary location, so a single posting never appears twice in the same table.
  • Refresh. New postings are discovered daily; the figures on this page are recomputed monthly against the live dataset.