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Jobs in Switzerland in English: 61 % of 164 listings
Of the 164 open jobs in Switzerland we track, pulled from company career pages and official job feeds and checked against the source every day, 100 have the ad written in English. That is 61 %, which puts Switzerland 6th of the 16 countries in our comparison. 18 listings are junior-friendly, meaning the ad demands no years of experience, and 25 mention visa sponsorship or relocation. The language line runs through the industries: 95 % of engineering ads are in English, against 0 % in security.
By industry
| Industry | Listings | Ad in English | Junior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 44 | 95 %42 | 2 |
| Sales | 20 | 65 %13 | 0 |
| Security | 20 | 0 %0 | 0 |
| Retail & Hospitality | 17 | 0 %0 | 1 |
| Data & AI | 16 | 94 %15 | 1 |
| Finance | 12 | 42 %5 | 10 |
| Operations | 9 | 67 %6 | 2 |
| Product | 8 | 88 %7 | 0 |
| Design | 3 | 100 %3 | 0 |
| Skilled Trades | 3 | 33 %1 | 0 |
By city
| City | Listings | Ad in English | Junior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva | 55 | 91 %50 | 5 |
| Zurich | 53 | 60 %32 | 7 |
| Lausanne | 14 | 64 %9 | 1 |
How the numbers are made
Every listing comes straight from the employer's career page or an official job feed, never from another job board. Our pipeline reads the language of the ad text itself, so “ad in English” means the advertisement is written in English, not that the company would accept an English CV. Junior-friendly means we found no demand for years of experience in the ad. A listing that disappears at the source is removed the same day, and the counts above are recomputed every night; the page you are reading shows the state at 24 September 2026. The comparison counts only what we track, and we track some countries more completely than others, so use the shares, not the totals, when comparing countries. How we verify jobs has the details.
Browse the listings behind these numbers: all jobs in Switzerland, engineering, sales, security, or Geneva.