A ranking by Adzuna an online job portal, looked at the job markets in 70 of the largest cities in Germany and ranked them from the best to the list places to find jobs in Germany. The ranking looked at how many applications a single job application got. The more the applications, the lower the chances of getting a job.
Ranking of the Federal States (Number of applications per job position)
- Baden-Württemberg (3,8)
- Hamburg (3,9)
- Bayern (4)
- Hessen (5,4)
- Bremen (9,4)
- Nordrhein-Westfalen (10,5)
- Niedersachsen (10,7)
- Berlin (11,4)
- Rheinland-Pfalz (12,2)
- Schleswig-Holstein (12,8)
- Thüringen (14,2)
- Sachsen (14,5)
- Saarland (15,9)
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (20,6)
- Sachsen-Anhalt (21,9)
- Brandenburg (27,2)
Ranking of the 70 Largest Cities (Number of applications per job position)
- Regensburg (1,2)
- Ingolstadt (1,3)
- Darmstadt (1,3)
- Stuttgart (1,4)
- München (1,5)
- Erlangen (1,7)
- Augsburg (1,7)
- Frankfurt am Main (2,1)
- Würzburg (2,1)
- Wolfsburg (2,1)
- Heilbronn (2,4)
- Heidelberg (2,5)
- Mannheim (2,6)
- Karlsruhe (3,2)
- Düsseldorf (3,2)
- Leipzig (3,5)
- Osnabrück (3,6)
- Jena (3,7)
- Hamburg (4,0)
- Kassel (4,1)
- Bonn (4,1)
- Wiesbaden (4,2)
- Nürnberg (4,2)
- Braunschweig (4,9)
- Mainz (5,0)
- Reutlingen (5,1)
- Potsdam (5,1)
- Pforzheim (5,4)
- Freiburg im Breisgau (5,6)
- Offenbach (5,8)
- Salzgitter (6,2)
- Köln (6,1)
- Koblenz (6,6)
- Erfurt (6,8)
- Trier (7,1)
- Bremen (7,2)
- Mühlheim an der Ruhr (7,5)
- Hannover (7,5)
- Dresden (7,8)
- Cottbus (8,3)
- Leverkusen (8,3)
- Rostock (8,5)
- Fürth (8,7)
- Bielefeld (8,8)
- Göttingen (9,0)
- Lübeck (9,7)
- Ludwigshafen (9,8)
- Oldenburg (9,9)
- Paderborn (10,0)
- Mönchengladbach (10,2)
- Chemnitz (10,4)
- Kiel (11,2)
- Bottrop (11,5)
- Magdeburg (11,6)
- Berlin (11,7)
- Krefeld (11,7)
- Siegen (11,7)
- Remscheid (12,1)
- Bremerhaven (12,2)
- Münster (12,3)
- Aachen (12,5)
- Essen (12,6)
- Ulm (12,7)
- Wuppertal (12,8)
- Hildesheim (13,2)
- Dortmund (13,5)
- Bochum (15,8)
- Duisburg (19,3)
- Gelsenkirchen (26,3)
- Oberhausen (28,0)