Market slice

Mechanical Engineer jobs in Zurich

1,057 open Mechanical Engineer jobs in Zurich. Median salary €156k, 5.5% remote, 43 posted this week.

Open roles
1,057
43 new this week
Median salary
€156k
4.3% disclose pay
Remote share
5.5%
of all openings
Median age of posting
28d
39.8% older than 60d
Freshness

How old these postings are

just posted28d median90d+
Age of postingShare
Posted in the last 7 days7.3%
Median age28 days
Older than 60 days39.8%

Age counts days since the employer published the posting. Around a third of sources publish only a coarse date such as “30+ days ago”, so the older end of this distribution is less precise than the recent end. It is the most-cited signal that a role may not be actively filled — a signal, not a verdict.

Pay

Salary distribution

€70k€270k
Based on 45 postings that disclose pay — 4.3% of this slice.
Fewer than one posting in six publishes a range here, and the ones that do are not a random sample. Treat these figures as indicative of the disclosing minority, not of the market.
PercentileSalary
25th€123,000
Median€156,000
75th€193,500
90th€237,000
Demand

Who is hiring and what they ask for

Top technologies

72.0%
65.8%
59.6%
53.4%
47.2%
41.0%
34.8%
28.6%

Most-asked skills

Cross-functional leadership
58.0%
Distributed systems
52.6%
Communication
47.2%
Budgeting
41.8%
Stakeholder management
36.4%
Data modelling
31.0%
Forecasting
25.6%
Vendor management
20.2%
Composition

How the market splits

Work arrangement

Remote
5.5%
Hybrid
41.5%
In Person
53.0%

Top locations

Zurich
34.0%
United States
30.4%
Canada
26.8%
United Kingdom
23.2%
Ireland
19.6%
Germany
16.0%
France
12.4%
Netherlands
8.8%
Employers
328
hiring in this slice
Posted last 7d
7.3%
of the cohort
Salary disclosed
4.3%
of postings publish pay
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FAQ

Questions people ask

How many mechanical engineer jobs are open in Zurich?

We track mechanical engineer openings published in Zurich, refreshed continuously. The count at the top of this page is the current total. Job postings read directly from company applicant tracking systems.

What does a mechanical engineer earn in Zurich?

The median advertised salary is shown above, alongside the 25th, 75th and 90th percentiles. Only postings that publish a salary are included, so the sample is smaller than the total number of openings.

How do I get this data through an API?

Every number on this page comes from one call to our jobs and insights endpoints. See the API documentation for the request shape and filters.

Figures cover 1,057 postings collected from public company career pages and applicant tracking systems, last recomputed 2026-09-02. “Posted N days ago” counts from the date the employer published the listing, not from when we first saw it. A posting that has been up for months is a common sign it is not being actively filled — though a long-lived listing is a signal, not a verdict. How we measure this →
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