jobs.ch vs Indeed — which finds more Swiss vacancies?

The Swiss job portals at a glance

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   1. SwissJobs.appOur app

   Over 21,000 open Swiss roles from ATS systems, company sites and LinkedIn in one place — and from any advert, straight into a CV, a motivation letter, a CV check and interview prep. The RAV job-search-efforts form fills itself from your application tracker. Free to use; the account is asked for at save.

   SwissJobs.app →

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   2. jobs.ch

   The best-known board in German-speaking Switzerland and the largest index in the country. Owned by JobCloud AG — as are jobup.ch and JobScout24.

   jobs.ch →

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   3. Indeed Switzerland

   The broadest aggregation, because Indeed also collects from other boards — at the cost of many duplicates of the same advert.

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Feature comparison

As of 4 September 2026. "not stated" means it could not be read on their own site — not "does not exist". Our rows come from the code (lib/stripe/trialConfig.ts) and from walking the live flow, not from marketing copy.

Pricing side by side

As of 4 September 2026. "not stated" means it could not be read on their own site — not "does not exist". Our rows come from the code (lib/stripe/trialConfig.ts) and from walking the live flow, not from marketing copy.

What each platform actually published that day

jobs.ch publishes its own volumes on its homepage, broken down by region. On 24 August 2026 that page showed about thirty-six thousand vacancies for German-speaking Switzerland, roughly four thousand for the French-speaking regions, 282 for Ticino and 99 abroad. Within the German-speaking part, the Zurich and Schaffhausen region led with just over eleven thousand, ahead of Bern with close to six thousand, the Mittelland with about five and a half thousand and Central Switzerland with roughly five thousand. Upper Valais came to 359 and the Geneva region to 870.

Indeed publishes no such breakdown. Its number sits in the title of the result page, where it read «Jobs in Schweiz | Jetzt … offene Stellen finden», with the rounded figure of roughly 135 thousand standing where the ellipsis is. The same place gave roughly nineteen thousand for the canton of Zurich, roughly two thousand each for the canton of Geneva and for Lausanne, and roughly a thousand each for Lugano, Chur and the canton of Ticino.

That last detail tells you how coarse the rounding is: Lugano, Chur and the entire canton of Ticino cannot plausibly hold the same number of vacancies. When the set is small, Indeed becomes precise — searching «Infermiere» in Ticino returned exactly 25. Read the large numbers as orders of magnitude, not as counts.

If you work in English, the two are closer than the totals suggest

The headline gap of roughly 135 thousand against about forty thousand does not survive contact with an English-language search. «Software Engineer» returned just under thirteen hundred on jobs.ch against roughly a thousand on Indeed, and «Data Analyst» 669 against roughly 300. For English job titles, in other words, jobs.ch is competitive or ahead — the opposite of what the totals imply.

The reason is how each site searches. jobs.ch has replaced keyword matching with a describe-your-role search, and its result list therefore includes adverts that never use your word. Searching «Metzger», the German for butcher, produced a hospitality role in Bern and a kitchen fitter in Hägendorf among the top results, alongside a long run of shop-counter jobs in supermarket butchery departments. Indeed's first eight results for the same word all had «Metzger» or «Metzgerei» in the title.

Neither behaviour is wrong, but they produce different numbers from the same market. A broad, related-roles list is useful if you are open to adjacent work — common when you have just moved and your qualification does not map neatly onto a Swiss job title. It is unhelpful if you want that one job and nothing else, and it means a jobs.ch count cannot be compared directly with an Indeed count.

Where you are looking matters more than which site you use

Every place search we ran favoured Indeed, and the gap grows as you move away from the German-speaking centre. For Zurich, jobs.ch showed just under eleven thousand against roughly nineteen thousand for the canton on Indeed. For Geneva it was 809 against roughly two thousand, for Lausanne 891 against roughly two thousand, for Chur 565 against roughly a thousand. Part of that is framing — Indeed reads a city name as its canton and titles the page accordingly — but framing does not explain a factor of three.

Ticino is the extreme case: 261 adverts on jobs.ch for the whole canton, 84 for Lugano, against roughly a thousand on Indeed. Indeed's first page for Lugano listed Istituto Cardiocentro Ticino, Clinica di Riabilitazione EOC, the meat processor Rapelli in Stabio, Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, Decathlon in Grancia and JYSK in Sant'Antonino — local employers advertising in Italian.

This is the point that catches people who have moved to Switzerland for a job and assume one national market. There is no such thing. There are four language regions, adverts are written in the language of the region, and jobs.ch does not even offer an Italian interface — jobs.ch/it/ redirects to the German homepage, while Indeed Switzerland runs in Italian as well. Search in the language of the advert, or the platform comparison is moot.

The second page of Indeed results asked for an account

A large number is only worth something if you can read the listings behind it. We checked how far each site lets you go without signing in. On jobs.ch, pages two and eight of a result list opened normally. On Indeed, requesting the second page of results redirected to Indeed's sign-in page in both searches we tried — «Metzger» nationally, and the Lugano place search.

This was a single request each, made without an account and without a stored session; a signed-in visitor, or one served a different variant, may see something else. As a rule of thumb for the comparison it still holds: of the roughly 135 thousand positions in that page title, one page is what you get before the platform wants your details.

Cost is not a differentiator here. Both platforms are free for job seekers and both earn from employers. Indeed's employer page opens with «Legen Sie los mit einer kostenlosen Stellenanzeige» — start with a free job advert — and sells visibility through sponsored listings billed per click. JobCloud, the company behind jobs.ch, likewise advertises «Kostenlos starten» with paid options for more visibility. Both result lists are therefore partly ordered by budget, not only by fit.

What «more vacancies» actually counts

A result count is a number of lines, not a number of distinct jobs. We can show the size of that difference in our own Swiss index, because we can look inside it. 21.7 per cent of adverts share both their title and their employer with at least one other advert. Count each title-and-employer pair once and about 85 of every 100 lines remain. One retailer alone carries the same shop-floor title more than a hundred times, because every branch posts its own advert.

The distribution behind that is far more lopsided than a result list suggests: 4.1 per cent of employers carry half of all adverts, while 45.1 per cent of employers appear with exactly one. Around four in a hundred title-and-employer combinations run in more than one town at the same time. Whoever counts is counting branches and repeats along with jobs.

Then there is the overlap between the two platforms, which nobody knows. One vacancy can sit on jobs.ch, on Indeed, on the employer's careers page and inside an applicant system at the same time. Neither company publishes how much of its inventory also sits on the other, and it cannot be measured from outside. What is certain is that adding the two numbers together overstates the number of open jobs in Switzerland.

Which one for which search

Use jobs.ch first if you are searching a German job title in German-speaking Switzerland, or an English job title anywhere: it returned more for both, it includes adjacent roles, and it adds employer reviews and a Swiss salary calculator that Indeed does not offer in this form for Switzerland.

Use Indeed if you are searching in Ticino, in a smaller town, in a border region or for small employers. There the gap is large enough to decide a search on its own, and if you search in Italian, jobs.ch has no interface in your language at all.

Add jobup.ch if you are searching in the French-speaking part. jobs.ch says so itself on its own homepage, pointing readers looking for vacancies in Romandie to jobup.ch as its platform for the French-speaking regions; both belong to JobCloud, so querying several of its brands does not multiply your choice.

And if you are registered with an RAV, the regional employment office, neither platform changes your obligations: job-search efforts are evidenced to the RAV whichever site you found the advert on, and vacancies subject to the reporting duty appear first on Job-Room, the public employment service's own portal. Wherever you find the advert, the application itself almost never goes to the platform — it goes to the employer or into its applicant system.

How to check this for your own job in five minutes

First, type the same term and the same place into both sites. Second, read the number above the list on jobs.ch and in the browser tab title on Indeed. Third — the step almost nobody takes — actually look at the first ten results and count how many are the job you want. That share, applied to the result count, is the only comparable number of the three.

Fourth, repeat the search in the language of the region: «infirmier» rather than «Pflegefachfrau» in Geneva, «Infermiere» rather than either in Lugano. On jobs.ch, «Pflegefachfrau» in Ticino returned nothing at all while «Infermiere» returned nine; on Indeed the same job in the same canton returned 25.

One disclosure: SwissJobs.app is itself a Swiss job search, and it is not one of the two options being compared here — no advert in our index sends its application to Indeed, and only a fraction of one per cent goes to a JobCloud brand. If you want a third list after making the comparison, you can search ours; it does not change the answer above.