German Job Market Tracker: Salaries & Hiring Companies

What does this role pay in Germany, and who is hiring for it? Enter the roles you care about and get one market report each: how many jobs are advertised, the salary range, which employers are posting most, which cities are hiring, and how fresh the adverts are.

Data comes from XING, the job board of the German-speaking world (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). No login, no API key.

What does this do?

The other XING Actors hand you job rows. This one measures the market behind them — and gives you the rows as well.

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    A[Roles you name] --> B[XING job search]
    B --> C[Jobs advertised,<br/>XING's own count]
    B --> D[The newest adverts,<br/>read in full]
    C --> E[One report per role]
    D --> E
    D --> F[Every advert as a row]

Who is it for?

You are	You use it to
Recruiters and staffing agencies	See which employers are posting the most for a role, and what the going rate is before you pitch
HR and compensation teams	Benchmark an offer against the live market in a city, not against last year's survey
Job seekers	Find out what a role really pays in Berlin against Munich, and who is hiring right now
Market researchers	Track hiring volume, salaries and employer mix across the German-speaking market
Sales teams selling to HR	Spot the companies in a hiring spree, which is when HR budgets open

What data do you get?

One row per role:

Field	Meaning
jobsOnMarket, jobsOnMarketIsAtLeast	How many adverts match, from XING's own count. XING stops counting at 1,000, and the flag says when the number is "or more"
medianSalary, lowerQuartileSalary, upperQuartileSalary	The middle of the market and the middle half, in the market's own currency
employerStated / xingEstimated	The same figures worked out separately for adverts where the employer published a salary and for the ones XING estimated
estimatedSharePercent, jobsWithSalary	How much of the salary picture is XING's estimate rather than a published figure
topCompanies, companyPostingMostJobs, hiringCompanies	The employers advertising most for this role, with counts and shares
topCities	The cities the adverts name, biggest first
employmentTypes	Vollzeit, Teilzeit, Selbstständig and the rest, with shares
postedLast7Days, medianDaysSincePosted, expiringWithin14Days	How live the market is
promotedJobs, viaThirdPartyJobs	Paid listings, and adverts that redirect to another site
commonWords, jobsWithResponsibilities	The words that come up most in XING's summary of what the job involves
careerLevelsOffered, remoteOptionsOffered, industriesHiring	The filters XING offers for this search, when it publishes them

With Also return every advert as a row on (the default), a second table holds each advert: title, employer, city, employment type, salary and where the figure came from, key responsibilities, posting date, age and a link.

Example: six roles across the whole German-speaking market

Run from Apify's servers on 20 September 2026, 100 adverts read per role, 14 seconds for all six:

Role	Advertised	Median salary	Middle half	Employer-stated vs XING estimate	Top employer
data scientist	1,000+	€67,750	€61,500–73,500	€60,000 vs €68,500	DIS AG Germany
software engineer	1,000+	€65,500	€60,000–72,500	€75,000 vs €64,750	Helsing
projektmanager	1,000+	€62,000	€53,500–67,750	€65,000 vs €61,500	Workwise GmbH
controller	1,000+	€58,500	€52,500–64,500	€66,227 vs €57,000	Actief Personalmanagement
vertrieb	1,000+	€55,250	€45,375–64,625	€52,500 vs €58,000	Workwise GmbH
pflegefachkraft	1,000+	€43,000	€41,500–50,100	€50,100 vs €42,000	Workwise GmbH

The two salary columns are worth reading twice. For most of these roles the employers who publish a salary are offering more than XING estimates for the market — €75,000 against €64,750 for software engineers, €66,227 against €57,000 for controllers. Only for data scientists and sales roles is it the other way round. An average over both numbers would have hidden that completely, which is why this Actor keeps them apart.

Things worth knowing

• Two kinds of salary, never mixed silently. XING shows an employer's own range when the advert has one, and its own estimate when it does not. Every figure carries salarySource, and the report gives employerStated and xingEstimated separately as well as the combined median. estimatedSharePercent tells you how much of it is guesswork — in the run above, between 49% and 94% depending on the role.
• XING counts to 1,000 and stops. A broad search says "1,000" with jobsOnMarketIsAtLeast: true. Add a city to get an exact number: "software engineer" in Berlin returns 656.
• The sample is the newest adverts, 100 by default and up to 500. The market count comes from XING and covers everything.
• German and English both work as search words. "Vertrieb" and "sales" return different markets, so use the word your candidates would.
• Austria and Switzerland are included when no city is given, and Swiss adverts quote CHF — salaryCurrencies lists every currency in the sample.
• Some employers are agencies. Staffing firms (Workwise, DIS AG, Actief) often top the employer list; that is a real feature of the market, not a fault in the data, and the topCompanies list lets you see it.
• Salaries are yearly gross figures as XING publishes them.

Popular salary reports

Ready-made runs you can open and start, or copy as a starting point:

• Software Developer Salaries in Germany: Live Market
• Data Science Salaries in Germany: Jobs and Employers
• Berlin Tech Salaries: Jobs, Pay and Who Is Hiring
• Munich Tech Salaries: Jobs, Pay and Who Is Hiring
• Hamburg Tech Salaries: Jobs, Pay and Who Is Hiring
• Finance and Accounting Salaries in Germany
• Sales Salaries in Germany: Vertrieb and Account Managers
• Healthcare Salaries in Germany: Pflege and Therapy Jobs
• Engineering Salaries in Germany: Ingenieur Jobs and Pay
• Marketing Salaries in Germany: Jobs, Pay and Employers
• Logistics Salaries in Germany: Jobs, Pay and Employers
• HR Salaries in Germany: Recruiter and Personalreferent Pay
• Project Management Salaries in Germany and Austria
• Vienna Salaries: What Jobs Pay in Austria Right Now
• Zurich Salaries: What Jobs Pay in Switzerland Now

Pricing

$0.02 per role report plus $0.0005 per advert row ($0.50 per 1,000 adverts). Market counts, salary figures, employer and city lists are included in the report price. A role with no adverts costs nothing.

Six roles with 100 adverts each cost $0.42. Compute is tiny: that run used $0.001 of platform usage at 256 MB.

Input

Setting	What it does
Roles	One job title or keyword per line, German or English
City or region	Berlin, München, Hamburg, Wien, Zürich… or empty for the whole market
Adverts to read per role	20 to 500, newest first
Also return every advert as a row	The second table with each advert

Integrations

Runs on a schedule and connects to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make or your own code through the Apify API. Results export as JSON, CSV or Excel. A weekly run builds a salary and hiring history by itself.

Is it legal?

This Actor reads the same public job adverts any visitor sees on XING, and keeps the employer details published with them. It stores no personal data and needs no account.