Job miracle in Munich – Which companies are looking for staff, which qualifications are particularly in demand
Created: 2022-01-24 09:52
By: Thomas Schmidtutz
Munich skyline: The job engine is booming in the greater Munich area.
There are currently around 40,000 vacancies.
After Berlin, the Bavarian state capital is number 1 nationwide. © Peter Kneffel/dpa
The corona pandemic has also hit the Munich labor market hard.
But the number of vacancies is now back to the pre-Corona level.
Munich – The Munich-based carmaker BMW has big plans for staff this year: CEO Oliver Zipse * announced shortly before the turn of the year in an interview with the
Munich newspaper
* that “around 6000 new employees” would be hired in the current year.
Now Bayern are serious.
According to an exclusive evaluation by the job site Indeed for this newspaper, BMW* currently has around 1720 job advertisements on its career portal, a good two-thirds of them in Munich.
In addition to specialists in automated driving or battery technology, the group is also looking for software developers or experts in IT security.
Munich job market: The job engine is running at full speed again after Corona
The job engine is also running at full speed again at other companies in the Munich area after the Corona slump.
Infineon currently has 370 job advertisements for the group's headquarters in Neubiberg, Siemens has 319 job advertisements open in Munich, and the TV group ProSieben.Sat1 has a good 300.
The nine companies listed in the Dax* based in the greater Munich area are currently looking for around 2,400 employees.
There are also 126 vacancies at Airbus and 100 at Linde.
Both do not have their group headquarters in Munich, but maintain large locations here.
Munich job market: The Munich stock exchange giants alone are looking for 3,400 employees
If you also add the Munich companies listed in the MDax* and TecDax such as Telefonica Deutschland, the IT service provider Cancom or the brake specialist Knorr-Bremse, the largest listed Munich companies are currently looking for a good 3,400 employees.
And even that's just the tip.
The number of vacancies in the state capital is currently around 40,000, explains Annina Hering, labor market expert at Indeed.
In terms of the number of vacancies, Munich is second in Germany, behind Berlin. Measured by the ratio between the number of inhabitants and the number of job advertisements, however, the Munich job market is “number 1 nationwide”, sums up the doctorate in job market economist.
"Incredibly strong attraction": Annina Hering, labor market expert at Indeed's job portal, also attributes the job boom in Munich to the attractiveness of the greater Munich area.
© Indeed
Munich labor market back to pre-corona level
The Corona * pandemic has also left deep marks on the Munich labor market in the past two years. But since the low in the summer of 2020, the demand for good staff has risen sharply again. The number of vacancies is currently around 58 percent higher than in the previous year. Compared to the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020, the total number of job advertisements has increased by a good fifth. The job market in the state capital has now left the corona pandemic far behind. "Munich and the surrounding area are simply an incredibly strong attraction," says Hering.
The metropolitan area in southern Bavaria has another important feature.
While in the rest of the country "technical-mechanical professions" such as industrial workers or craftsmen are particularly in demand, "white-collar" employees are particularly sought after in Munich, i.e. knowledge workers, explains the Indeed expert.
Munich job market: Software specialists particularly in demand
After all, around ten percent of the job advertisements in Munich are for software experts, a further eight percent of the advertisements are for sales specialists, followed by job advertisements for executives.
This reflects the high density of corporate headquarters, branches and important development sites of large corporations in Munich, says Hering.
With Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe and Salesforce, four tech giants maintain their German headquarters in Munich.
In addition, Google is expanding its development site in Maxvorstadt.
Apple* also has big plans for Munich.
By 2023, the iPhone manufacturer intends to upgrade the existing research and development departments in Munich to become the European Center for Chip Design and will invest a billion euros in doing so.
Munich labor market: Additional pressure on rents and living costs
The attractiveness of the state capital should thus continue to increase in the long term - but rents and living costs will probably do so as well.
*Merkur.de is part of IPPEN.MEDIA
