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Trade jobs in Germany

Field dossier for Trade: who is hiring and where.

In short: Trade has 2,501 live ads in Germany. Top occupations: Fachwirt/in - Handel (doppelt qualifizierende Ausbildung), Kaufmann/-frau - Groß- und Außenhandelsmanagement (Großhandel), Kaufmann/-frau - Groß- und Außenhandel (Großhandel).

By AtiveSite · Published 07/11/2026 · Updated 07/11/2026 · Every figure is linked to its source below.

2,501live job ads

0.7%of all ads

Overview

The field Trade (Handel) has 2,501 live job ads in Germany today (0.7% of all ads).

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Jobs

LIVE · FIELD (Trade) Live feed Source: Bundesagentur Jobsuche · Data: ads published in the last 28 days · counted 07/11/2026

2,501 live ads. The tables below count ads by field, occupation, employer and place.

Top fields (Berufsfelder)

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Field ⇅	Live ads ⇅	Share ⇅
Retail sales (general)	27,962	1118.0%
Warehousing, postal and delivery, freight handling	20,307	812.0%
Mechanical engineering and plant technology	18,115	724.3%
Metalworking	11,831	473.1%
Education and social work	11,253	449.9%
Energy technology	11,252	449.9%
Office and secretariat	9,262	370.3%
Nursing, emergency services and midwifery	8,978	359.0%
Construction and transport machinery operation	8,906	356.1%
Purchasing and sales	8,408	336.2%
Electrical engineering	8,157	326.1%
Metal construction and welding	7,679	307.0%
Accounting, controlling and auditing	7,554	302.0%
Business organisation and strategy	6,864	274.5%
Vehicle, aerospace and shipbuilding technology	6,727	269.0%
Cleaning	6,105	244.1%
Mechatronics and automation	6,046	241.7%
Elderly care	5,636	225.3%
Human and dental medicine	5,288	211.4%
Food preparation (cooking)	5,288	211.4%
Road vehicle driving	5,017	200.6%
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning	4,885	195.3%
Production planning and control	4,645	185.7%
Hospitality and catering	4,496	179.8%
Computer science / IT	4,446	177.8%

Top occupations

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Occupation ⇅	German title ⇅	Live ads ⇅	Share ⇅
Fachwirt/in - Handel (doppelt qualifizierende Ausbildung)	Fachwirt/in - Handel (doppelt qualifizierende Ausbildung)	815	32.6%
Kaufmann/-frau - Groß- und Außenhandelsmanagement (Großhandel)	Kaufmann/-frau - Groß- und Außenhandelsmanagement (Großhandel)	735	29.4%
Kaufmann/-frau - Groß- und Außenhandel (Großhandel)	Kaufmann/-frau - Groß- und Außenhandel (Großhandel)	220	8.8%
Kaufmann/-frau - Groß- und Außenhandel (Außenhandel)	Kaufmann/-frau - Groß- und Außenhandel (Außenhandel)	172	6.9%
Kaufmann/-frau - E-Commerce	Kaufmann/-frau - E-Commerce	155	6.2%
Kaufmann/-frau - Groß- und Außenhandelsmanagement (Außenhandel)	Kaufmann/-frau - Groß- und Außenhandelsmanagement (Außenhandel)	141	5.6%
Industrial clerk	Industriekaufmann/-frau	89	3.6%
E-Commerce-Manager/in	E-Commerce-Manager/in	71	2.8%
Handelsassistent/in	Handelsassistent/in	46	1.8%
Automobil-Fachwirt/in	Automobil-Fachwirt/in	37	1.5%
Außenhandelsassistent/in	Außenhandelsassistent/in	35	1.4%
Speditionskaufmann/-frau	Speditionskaufmann/-frau	31	1.2%
Office clerk	Bürokaufmann/-frau	27	1.1%
Kaufmann/-frau - Spedition und Logistikdienstleistung	Kaufmann/-frau - Spedition und Logistikdienstleistung	23	0.9%
Office management clerk	Kaufmann/-frau - Büromanagement	22	0.9%
Fachwirt/in - Handel	Fachwirt/in - Handel	21	0.8%
Vertriebsassistent/in	Vertriebsassistent/in	20	0.8%
Fachkaufmann/-frau - Außenwirtschaft	Fachkaufmann/-frau - Außenwirtschaft	19	0.8%
Gebietsleiter/in - Außenwirtschaft	Gebietsleiter/in - Außenwirtschaft	18	0.7%
Technische/r Fachkaufmann/-frau - Sanitär/Heizung/Klima	Technische/r Fachkaufmann/-frau - Sanitär/Heizung/Klima	18	0.7%
Commercial specialist	Kaufmännische Fachkraft	13	0.5%
Betriebswirt/in (Hochschule) - Handel	Betriebswirt/in (Hochschule) - Handel	12	0.5%
Fachwirt/in - Außenhandel	Fachwirt/in - Außenhandel	12	0.5%
Betriebswirt/in (Fachschule) - Handel	Betriebswirt/in (Fachschule) - Handel	11	0.4%
Betriebswirt/in (doppelt qualifizierende Ausbildung) - Außenhandel	Betriebswirt/in (doppelt qualifizierende Ausbildung) - Außenhandel	11	0.4%

Employers with the most ads

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Employer ⇅	Live ads ⇅	Share ⇅
Deichmann SE	307	12.3%
ALDI Einkauf SE & Co. OHG	193	7.7%
Lidl Dienstleistung GmbH & Co. KG	112	4.5%
EDEKA Südwest Stiftung & Co. KG	83	3.3%
DIS AG Germany	65	2.6%
STARK Deutschland GmbH	44	1.8%
Tesla Germany GmbH	34	1.4%
Pneuhage Management GmbH & Co. KG	31	1.2%
Elmer Dienstleistungs- GmbH & Co. KG	29	1.2%
FEGA & Schmitt Elektrogroßhandel GmbH	23	0.9%
team baucenter GmbH & Co. KG	21	0.8%
EDEKA	19	0.8%
Meesenburg GmbH & Co. KG	19	0.8%
Hornbach Baustoff Union GmbH	16	0.6%
PerZukunft Arbeitsvermittlung GmbH & Co. KG	14	0.6%
Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG	13	0.5%
Henry Schein Dental Deutschland GmbH	12	0.5%
IKEA Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG	12	0.5%
Henry Schein Services GmbH	11	0.4%
DIS AG Industrie	10	0.4%
Ikea Deutschland GmbH & Co KG	10	0.4%
Woolworth GmbH	10	0.4%
BÄR & OLLENROTH KG	9	0.4%
Thalia Bücher GmbH	8	0.3%
dennree GmbH	8	0.3%

Staffing agencies (Zeitarbeit) are included; see each employer page for the flag.

Places with the most ads

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Place ⇅	Live ads ⇅	Share ⇅
Berlin	102	4.1%
Hamburg	65	2.6%
Bremen	44	1.8%
Köln	29	1.2%
Essen, Ruhr	28	1.1%
Dortmund	27	1.1%
Düsseldorf	25	1.0%
München	25	1.0%
Nürnberg, Mittelfranken	25	1.0%
Frankfurt am Main	18	0.7%
Freiburg im Breisgau	18	0.7%
Hannover	16	0.6%
Stuttgart	16	0.6%
Oldenburg (Oldb)	15	0.6%
Braunschweig	14	0.6%
Krefeld	14	0.6%
Osnabrück	14	0.6%
Bielefeld	13	0.5%
Duisburg	13	0.5%
Leipzig	13	0.5%
Lüneburg	13	0.5%
Ravensburg, Württemberg	13	0.5%
Kiel	12	0.5%
Mannheim	12	0.5%
Ulm, Donau	12	0.5%

Places are as the Bundesagentur names them; ads within the radius the agency assigns to the place name.

What the ads say (indicators)

Fixed-term27 (1.1%)

Permanent560 (22.4%)

Not stated1,914 (76.5%)

Full-time (flag)2,442 (97.6%)

Part-time (flag)102 (4.1%)

Shift / night / weekend (flag)8 (0.3%)

Mini-job (flag)1 (0.0%)

Temporary agency work (Zeitarbeit)117 (4.7%)

Open to career changers (Quereinstieg)71 (2.8%)

Ads stating pay: per year133 (5.3%)

Ads stating pay: per hour41 (1.6%)

Indicators come from structured fields in the ads; many ads leave them blank. They describe current offers, not the whole labour market.

Pay

NATIONAL (all Germany) Official statistics Source: Eurostat earn_ses22_28 · Data: reference year 2022 (latest Structure of Earnings Survey)

Mean annual gross earnings of employees in enterprises with 10 or more employees were €48,655 in 2022 (about €4,055 a month): men €54,375, women €42,325. The table splits them by broad occupation group (ISCO-08 major groups).

Managers€111,275

Professionals€72,211

Technicians and associate professionals€53,017

Armed forces occupations€43,730

Clerical support workers€43,425

Craft and related trades workers€42,566

Plant and machine operators and assemblers€40,198

Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers€34,404

Service and sales workers€33,728

Elementary occupations€29,284

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Occupation group ⇅	Mean annual gross € ⇅	≈ per month € ⇅	Men € ⇅	Women € ⇅	Gap men vs women ⇅
Managers	111,275	9,273	122,563	80,940	34%
Professionals	72,211	6,018	82,041	61,320	25%
Technicians and associate professionals	53,017	4,418	62,701	45,472	27%
Clerical support workers	43,425	3,619	47,200	41,008	13%
Service and sales workers	33,728	2,811	34,866	33,155	5%
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers	34,404	2,867	35,714	27,822	22%
Craft and related trades workers	42,566	3,547	43,266	35,525	18%
Plant and machine operators and assemblers	40,198	3,350	41,170	34,666	16%
Elementary occupations	29,284	2,440	31,658	27,352	14%
Armed forces occupations	43,730	3,644	46,673	38,801	17%

Gap = (men − women) ÷ men, unadjusted for hours, age, occupation within group or industry. Figures are 2022 and do not include enterprises with fewer than 10 employees; wages have risen since. Groups are broad: a nurse and a doctor are not in the same group, but a baker and an electrician are.

NATIONAL Law Source: Statutory minimum wage (MiLoG) + Eurostat earn_mw_cur · Data: from 1 January 2026

The statutory minimum wage is €13.90 per hour from 1 January 2026 (Eurostat shows a full-time monthly equivalent of €2,343 for 2026, €2,161 for 2025). A further step to €14.60 on 1 January 2027 was set by the Minimum Wage Commission and the Federal Government: confirm on the official site. Mini-job earnings limit 2026: €603 a month (€7,236 a year).

Momentum

LIVE (Bundesagentur feed, daily snapshot kept by AtiveSite) Own time series Source: AtiveSite daily counts of Bundesagentur ads · Data: tracking since 07/11/2026

Every day we store how many ads are live for Trade. The Bundesagentur publishes no history, so this series becomes unique data. The trend line appears from the second day of tracking; today: 2,501 live ads.

Sources

Live jobs: Bundesagentur für Arbeit – Jobsuche (public job-search interface of the Federal Employment Agency; ads published in the last 28 days; counts by facet)
Population by state: Eurostat demo_r_pjangrp3 · employment: lfst_r_lfe2emp · unemployment: lfst_r_lfu3rt · GDP: nama_10r_2gdp · area: reg_area3
City population: Eurostat Urban Audit urb_cpop1 · coordinates: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) · state borders: deutschlandGeoJSON
Earnings: Eurostat earn_ses22_28 (Structure of Earnings Survey 2022) · minimum wage: Eurostat earn_mw_cur and MiLoG
Tax and contributions: § 32a EStG, SGB V, SGB VI, SGB XI, SGB III; average health top-up 2.9%: BMG notice (Bundesanzeiger 10.11.2025)
Law: ArbZG, BUrlG, EFZG, BGB §622, KSchG, MuSchG, BEEG, BetrVG
Immigration and recognition: Make it in Germany, Recognition in Germany, Federal Foreign Office – visa, BAMF

Data gaps we know about (not guessed)

Wages by single occupation, city and state (the official source we use covers 9 broad occupation groups, 2022). The Federal Employment Agency's pay atlas has no public data interface that we could use.
Rents and living costs by city; kindergarten fees (they differ by state and municipality).
Employee headcount by company for all employers: there is no free national register; we show live hiring and, where Wikidata has a dated figure, a reported group-wide headcount.
Union membership numbers and sector-by-sector collective-agreement pay tables.

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