jobs.ch or jobup.ch — which Swiss job board should you use, and when?

The Swiss job portals at a glance

Click an image for the full-size view. What each portal actually is stands beside it.

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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. jobup.ch

   The standard in French-speaking Switzerland and the first place to look for the Romandie — but the same JobCloud AG as jobs.ch.

   jobup.ch →

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.

One company, two brands — and jobs.ch says so itself

The footer of each site carries the same legal entity: «© 2026 JobCloud AG» on jobs.ch, «© 2026 JobCloud SA» on jobup.ch. On its own corporate site JobCloud claims 25 years in the industry and says more than thirty thousand Swiss companies hire through its portals. The group also owns jobscout24.ch, alpha.ch and topjobs.ch.

What is unusual is that jobs.ch states the division of labour in its own homepage copy: «For opportunities in the Romandie region, visit jobup.ch, our dedicated platform for the French-speaking regions of Switzerland.» The German and French versions of that page say exactly the same thing. A job board does not send readers elsewhere out of courtesy; it does so because the adverts those readers want are genuinely somewhere else.

The same region filter, both sites, the same day

The comparison is clean because both sites use an identical regional breakdown: region number six is «Geneva region» on jobs.ch and on jobup.ch, number thirteen is «Bern region» on both. On 28 August 2026 we opened every region on both sites in turn and read the number of vacancies out of the page title — the figure each site publishes about itself. It moves by a few positions over the course of a day, but it moves on both sides at once.

The pattern is sharper than the two brand names suggest. Geneva is the only large region where jobup.ch is clearly ahead: about a quarter more than the 938 positions jobs.ch showed. Neuchâtel and Jura came to 516 on jobup.ch against 476 on jobs.ch, and Vaud with Lower Valais to 4 per cent more. Across the whole Romandie jobup.ch leads by just 4 per cent. Everywhere else jobup.ch shows roughly half of what jobs.ch shows: 50 per cent in the Zurich and Schaffhausen region, 50 per cent in the Mittelland, 42 per cent in the Bern region, 42 per cent around Basel. In Ticino it was 102 against 306.

Why an advert appears on one site and not the other

JobCloud's pricing page opens with a choice — «I want to recruit in German-speaking Switzerland / in the Romandie» — and then shows two entirely separate grids. On the German-speaking side the entry tier, Basic at CHF 650 per advert, promises the right candidates «on jobs.ch», and nowhere else. On the Romandie side Basic also costs CHF 650 and promises the right candidates «on jobup.ch, the leading job platform in French-speaking Switzerland», and nowhere else.

Cross-posting starts only one tier up. Advanced costs CHF 890 on the German-speaking line and CHF 850 on the Romandie line and extends visibility «to the leading job portals in Switzerland». Even then a footnote narrows it: «Only positions in French-speaking Switzerland, including the canton of Bern, will be published on jobs.ch.» A Geneva employer who buys Advanced appears on both; one who buys the cheapest tier appears on jobup.ch alone.

At the bottom of the price list the two diverge further. The free advert on jobs.ch runs for ten days «with limited visibility». The free advert on jobup.ch is «visible only on your company profile» — it does not enter the search results at all, so no amount of searching will surface it. Both free tiers are closed to staffing and temporary-work agencies.

The bilingual cantons break the rule

The rule of thumb «Romandie means jobup, German-speaking means jobs.ch» fails precisely where the language border runs through a canton. In the Fribourg region jobs.ch showed 819 positions on 28 August 2026 against 670 on jobup.ch — the only French-speaking region where the German-language brand is ahead. In the Bern region, which includes Biel, jobs.ch leads by a wide margin, even though JobCloud's own footnote counts the canton of Bern as part of Romandie reach.

So for anyone searching in Fribourg, Murten, Biel, Sierre or Brig, the answer to the question in the title is simply «both». That is not a dodge: in Upper Valais jobs.ch showed 392 against 203 on jobup.ch, and in Neuchâtel-Jura it was the other way round. On the language border, following one site only loses you adverts in both directions.

Only jobs.ch lets you filter by the language of the advert

Both search forms offer the same basics: date posted, Pensum (the workload, stated as a percentage rather than as full- or part-time), professional field and contract type. But jobs.ch carries one filter jobup.ch does not: language. In that slot jobup.ch instead offers «Position», meaning seniority — which jobs.ch also has, on top of the language filter.

For anyone job-hunting in English this is the single most useful difference on the page. In our own index of open Swiss adverts, 19.5 per cent of positions sit in French-speaking Switzerland — and of the Romandie adverts whose language can be identified with confidence, only 52.5 per cent are written in French. 35.6 per cent are in English and 6.1 per cent in German. Close to half the Romandie market is not advertised in French, which is good news if English is your working language and bad news if you only search with French keywords. Those are exactly the adverts jobs.ch will let you isolate by language and jobup.ch will not.

The interfaces differ too. jobs.ch runs in German, French and English; jobup.ch in French and English only, with jobup.ch/de redirecting to the French version. Neither exists in Italian: jobs.ch/it redirects to the German homepage. If you are heading for Ticino, plan around that.

If you are searching from outside Switzerland

Neither site puts its results behind a login, and neither needs a Swiss address or an AHV number to browse. We opened the sixth page of results for the Geneva region on both without being asked to sign in, which is worth knowing because some large international boards do wall the second page.

What does need planning ahead is the Swiss dossier the adverts expect once you apply. A Swiss application typically carries Arbeitszeugnisse (the written employer references you receive on leaving each job), a work-permit line if you are not Swiss or EU-resident, language levels stated as CEFR grades rather than as «fluent», and the Pensum in per cent. Both platforms are job boards, not application tools: they will show you the vacancy, and the dossier is your side of the exchange.

What is identical on both

For job seekers both are free. Both offer company profiles with employee reviews, a salary comparison tool, an email job alert and an editorial advice section called Job Coach. The advert pages themselves are laid out identically, because they come out of the same house.

That is why «which one is better» is the wrong question. They do not differ in what they can do; they differ in the slice of the market an employer has paid for them to carry.

Which one to use

Use jobs.ch if you are looking in German-speaking Switzerland, if you want a German-language interface, if you want to filter adverts by language, or if you are looking in Fribourg. Use jobup.ch if you are looking in Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel or Jura — it is the larger of the two there, and in Geneva by a clear margin. Use both if you are searching along the language border, or if your profession is advertised in English as often as in the local language.

For Ticino, the honest answer is that neither is a Ticino job board: 306 positions on jobs.ch and 102 on jobup.ch for an entire canton, with no Italian interface on either.