Active employment of citizens in the UAE in 2020

19 / 11 / 2020

According to published data from the LinkedIn platform, the demand for personnel is growing in the UAE, to a greater extent it concerns people with skills from the IT industry. Even during a difficult period for the entire economy, the United Arab Emirates was able to keep the level of employment of citizens at a decent level.

It has not yet been possible to bring the employment indicator to the level that was before the onset of the crisis, but this indicator is only for October 2020 grew up by 9.5%. In general, the labor market in the United Arab Emirates cannot be called steadily growing, since the world is faced with the 2nd wave of Covid-19 and it is difficult to predict how this will affect the economy.

The greatest demand in the United Arab Emirates is for professionals with graphic design, online marketing, data analysis and data processing skills. In-demand specialists also included project managers, software developers, customer support and service, financial analysts and IT administrators.

Due to the strong demand for digital skills, more than 150 million new job opportunities are expected to emerge in the next 5-6 years. This means that a huge number of new opportunities will appear in different sectors of the economy that can be used.

Around the world, there is a decrease in average wages amid the spread of the pandemic and the emerging economic crisis, but the UAE was able to achieve an increase in wages of specialists this year by 3.8%.

There is already a wage growth plan for 2021, it is 4%. This is a general indicator for the entire labor market; indicators may differ in different industries. For example, in the field of biotechnology the largest growth is planned by 4.5%, in the field of energy - only 1.9%, as for consumer goods, in this area it is planned to increase by 3.8%.

Retail as a whole suffered one of the biggest losses in staff, but home delivery was able to increase the employment rate, and significantly. This is due to the growing demand from the population in e-commerce.