德國科技公司招聘職位多在海外，抽查的279則德國招聘廣告均未列薪酬

"German tech company" sounds like "jobs in Berlin or Munich". I pulled every open job from the career sites of well-known German tech companies to check that. Two things stood out: most of the jobs aren't in Germany, and the German postings never show pay, while the same companies' US postings almost always do.

Disclosure: I built the Career Site Jobs API used to collect this. It reads public job boards (Greenhouse, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Lever, Workday and others) and returns every open job as JSON, optionally with the full description.

The setup

• Companies: Delivery Hero, HelloFresh, SumUp, Celonis, Helsing, Flix, GetYourGuide, N26, Raisin, Contentful (all with 20+ open jobs), plus Babbel, Black Forest Labs and DeepL (fewer than 15 each)
• Jobs: 2,392 open postings in total, 2,357 at the ten larger companies
• Snapshot: 26 October 2026
• "In Germany": the location field names Germany or a German city

Two companies I tried don't use a public job board my tool can read (Zalando, Trade Republic), so they're not included. Two of Delivery Hero's 941 postings were cut off by a run limit, which doesn't change the picture.

1. Only 21% of the open jobs are in Germany

Delivery Hero is headquartered in Berlin, but its job board looks like a global map. The top locations after Berlin and Munich are Barcelona, London, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, New York, Sofia, Dubai and Madrid.

Overall, Berlin leads with 274 postings, then Munich (131), Barcelona (102) and London (84).

What that means: if you're looking for a job in Germany, the headline number of a "German unicorn" overstates your options a lot. Filter by location first. If you're tracking German hiring as a market signal, the companies with the most postings (Delivery Hero, HelloFresh, SumUp) tell you more about their global operations than about Germany.

2. Remote is rare

Only a handful of postings are marked remote: about 8% at Celonis and Black Forest Labs, and close to 0% almost everywhere else. These companies hire for offices, at least in their structured data.

3. Gender tags: "all genders" and m/f/d

German job ads traditionally add a gender note to the title. 272 of the 2,392 titles carry one:

The English-language versions (all genders, m/f/d) have overtaken the German m/w/d, which fits companies that post almost everything in English. Only 9 of 2,392 titles were in German at all, and they were warehouse, logistics and rail roles.

If you parse or deduplicate titles, strip these tags first. Otherwise "Data Engineer (m/f/d)" and "Data Engineer (all genders)" end up as two roles.

4. Pay: US postings show it, German postings don't

The structured salary field was filled for 1 of the 2,392 postings. That alone says little, because many companies put pay in the description text. So for five companies with many German postings (Celonis, Helsing, GetYourGuide, N26, Raisin; 530 jobs) I also pulled the full descriptions and searched them for salary ranges and phrases like "base salary", "pay range" or "Gehaltsspanne".

The same employers, sometimes for the same role, show a pay range in New York, Washington DC or California and nothing in Berlin or Munich. The US numbers come from state pay-transparency laws (New York, California, Washington, Colorado and others require a range in the ad). Without such a rule, these companies don't publish one.

That may change. The EU Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970) had to be transposed into national law by 7 June 2026. It requires employers to tell applicants the starting pay or pay range, though not necessarily in the ad itself; giving it before the interview also counts. Based on these postings, the German ads haven't changed yet.

(Method note: the search catches numeric euro ranges and common pay phrases in English and German. The 4 European matches are UK and Netherlands roles at Celonis that mention "base salary". Some may be generic wording rather than an actual number.)

5. AI roles: Celonis stands out

107 of the 2,392 titles (4.5%) contain AI, ML, LLM or agent. That's well below the 7.7% I measured at 20 US-based tech companies in my last analysis. Celonis accounts for 43 of them (20% of its postings), followed by SumUp (13) and Helsing (12).

How to reproduce

Input for the Career Site Jobs API:

{
  "companies": ["celonis", "helsing", "getyourguide", "n26", "raisin"],
  "maxJobsPerCompany": 0,
  "includeDescription": true,
  "locations": ["Germany", "Berlin", "Munich"]
}

locations keeps only jobs whose location contains one of those words. includeDescription adds the full text, which is what the pay search needs. Pricing is $2 per 1,000 jobs. For ongoing monitoring, add "onlyNewJobs": true with a monitorName and schedule the run daily, and you'll get only new postings.

Takeaways

1. At 10 well-known German tech companies, just 21% of open jobs are in Germany. Delivery Hero: 3%.
2. Remote is rare, and these companies hire for offices.
3. "(all genders)" and "(m/f/d)" have overtaken "(m/w/d)". Strip them before you compare titles.
4. Pay transparency stops at the border: 83% of these companies' US postings mention pay, 0 of 279 German postings did.