SwissJobs.app or ictjobs.ch — IT jobs in Switzerland compared

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.

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   2. ictjobs.ch

   "The job platform of the Swiss IT industry", IT only, with jobs by topic, company and region, a free job alert and an online CV.

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Feature comparison, as at 4 September 2026

Every cell in the right-hand column was read off their own pages on 4 September 2026. Where something is not stated there, the cell says so rather than guessing a No.

What it costs — for job seekers and for employers

Their prices come from their own rate card, retrieved 4 September 2026, all excluding VAT. Ours come from the pricing constants in our code, not from memory.

Why the list is so short — and why that is not only a weakness

Next to a stock of more than two thousand, a board with 149 adverts looks like a rounding error. Their own employer page explains it plainly: publishing costs CHF 380 per advert. There is no free tier, no import from other sites, no evergreen adverts kept alive to catch applicants. Somebody paid for each of those 149 lines, and paid intending to fill that specific role.

That cuts both ways. Upward: 91 different employers across 149 adverts, an average of 1.6 each, and barely a recruitment agency among them — click a line and you almost always know which company you would be joining. Downward: employers who do not pay are not there, and that is most Swiss employers with an open IT role.

Our index is built the other way round and carries the matching weakness. The largest single posting account in our IT list is a recruitment platform holding 19.7 per cent of those adverts, so roughly one result in five shows you an intermediary rather than the employer. How strongly that shapes the whole Swiss IT market is a separate measurement of ours, linked under the sources.

For anyone arriving in Switzerland, the language decides this one

This is the point where an English-speaking reader should stop weighing features. ictjobs.ch is written in German, its reach runs through German-language IT trade media, and its addresses for an English, French or Italian version return an error page. That is not a missing translation layer — it shapes the stock itself. Four adverts for the whole of French-speaking Switzerland and none at all for Ticino is what a German-language board looks like from the other side of the Röstigraben.

Our IT list the same day held 758 adverts written in English, 796 in German, 136 in French and 14 in Italian. That is not a claim about quality; it is a claim about which market each list can show you. If you are searching from London, Lisbon or Bangalore for a role in Zurich, one of these two lists is legible to you and the other is not.

Freshness: theirs is younger, ours refills faster

Every result card on ictjobs.ch carries a machine-readable publication date, which allows a real measurement rather than an estimate. Across all 149 adverts the median age was just under 18 days: 13.4 per cent were three days old or less, 18.8 per cent a week or less, 70.5 per cent a month or less.

The interesting number is at the other end. 97.3 per cent of the stock was 60 days old or younger, exactly the run time their FAQ states — a board that expires its adverts automatically has no zombies in it. Our stock does carry that tail: 26.2 per cent of our IT adverts are older than 60 days.

The other side of the ledger is inflow. In the seven days before the measurement, 28 new adverts appeared there and 642 in our IT list. Roughly four new roles a day is a volume you can actually read — and a volume that will not cover a search on its own.

Half their employers are not in our index, and that half is the point

The question that matters is not who has more, but what you would miss. We matched their 91 employer names against our stock by name parts, then corrected the result by hand, because a plain text comparison reads SBB and "SBB CFF FFS", Helsana Versicherungen and "Helsana Insurance Company", or MeteoSchweiz and "MeteoSwiss" as different firms.

After that correction, about half of their employers appear somewhere in our stock — Canton of Zurich, Swisscom, SBB, the cantonal hospitals of Aarau and Lucerne, PwC, Helsana, NVIDIA, Suva, the University Hospital Zurich, Brack.Alltron. The other half do not: PostFinance, IBM Switzerland, Rolex, Scandit, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, the Zurich University of the Arts, the Swiss Federal Archives, the Swiss Cancer League, plus smaller IT houses such as cyon, Diartis, SmartIT Services, Fogbyte, Health Info Net, Clalüna Computer, Talmatch and Helga Digitalagentur.

That second half is what the site is actually for: small Swiss IT firms, universities and public bodies that post one role a year and post it exactly where their audience reads. They surface in no large aggregation because they advertise nowhere else — which is why a board a hundred times smaller can still be worth half an hour a week.

Three things their result list does better than ours

The first is home office, and we do not match it. 58.4 per cent of their adverts write it straight into the location line — "Zürich / Homeoffice", "Bern / Work Smart / Homeoffice". In IT that is the field you would otherwise open every advert to check, and no large Swiss board surfaces it at this density.

The second is the shape of the titles: 70.5 per cent state a Pensum in the title itself, almost always as 80–100 per cent, so the workload question is answered before you click. The third is pay, on only 5 of the 149 adverts — 3.4 per cent, far too thin to search for, but shown up front where it is shown at all.

There is also a distribution advantage a pure job board does not have. Their employer page states that an advert appears no later than the next day in Swiss IT Magazine, Swiss IT Reseller and inside-it.ch, and that digital-communication roles are listed a second time on their sister platform medienjobs.ch. That is what the CHF 380 buys — and for a reader it means these adverts turn up in the trade press you were reading anyway.

What happens after you find the job — and where ictjobs.ch stops

Their job-seeker offer is free and quickly described: an alert that emails you matching new adverts, and an optional Online-CV you can share as a link or a PDF and use to apply to selected roles without a covering letter. Both need an account, and the Online-CV technically requires an active alert, which you can then pause. It is not publicly visible — a point their own FAQ makes repeatedly, and one that rightly matters in this market.

And that is the end of it. No motivation letter, no check of your CV against a specific advert, no interview preparation, no application tracker, no Word file, no RAV form. Our editor starts exactly there: pick an advert from the job index, the CV is written against that text, you change any line by hand or by instruction, and you export it as a PDF or a Word file with no watermark on either.

If you are registered with an RAV — the regional employment office that administers Swiss unemployment benefit — the applications you record in the tracker can be written into the official SECO job-search-efforts form in German, French or Italian. The standing caveat applies here as on all our RAV pages: report your efforts the way your own RAV requires. We fill in the form; we do not replace the step.

The short answer for three situations

You work in IT around Zurich, Bern or Aarau, read German, and do not want to miss anything: use both. ictjobs.ch is fully read in twenty minutes a week and carries employers who advertise nowhere else; run the broad search alongside it.

You are searching in Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Sion or Lugano: use us or another large list. Four adverts for all of French-speaking Switzerland and none for Ticino is not worth a search.

You are applying in English or from outside Switzerland: ictjobs.ch exists only in German, and so, overwhelmingly, do its adverts. Our list held 758 English-language IT adverts on the same day.