UAE on LinkedIn in Numbers

Local companies driving the UAE economy

A Happy Nation

Top Skills on LinkedIn - UAE 2016

Members engage withprofessional content Education

members inthe UAE

~3Mcompanies

represented

216Kjobs open

Top 3 industries

% of the workforce who work for companies in each sector

16K+ universitiesrepresented

15Kstandardized

skills

6Kposts, shares

and discussions*

4.9M

58%16%

of UAE-based professionals are working for local companies

No. 1 most followed LinkedIn Influencer in the UAE with over 800K+ followers globally

75% of UAE universitygraduates remained

and started their careers in the UAE

Most popular fields of study for undergraduate

students in the UAE

UAE is No.1 in the Arab world with the highest number of professionals indicating

Happiness in their title.

ProfessionalServices

14%Architecture &Engineering

10%FinancialServices

HH SheikhMohammedBin Rashid Al Maktoum

UAE is one of the top 3 countries with the fastest growing group of happiness professionals, with a YoY growth of over a 100%

THE

UAE

* in the past 12 months

Source: LinkedIn Data October 2016

Business Management

Computer Science

Civil Engineering

Statistical Analysisand Data

Mining

1

Middleware andIntegrationSoftware

6

Public Policy and International

Relations

2

User InterfaceDesign

7

AlgorithmDesign

3

Renewable andsustainable

Energy

8

Web Architecture and Development

Framework

4

Mining andCommodities

9

SEO/SEMMarketing

5

Corporate Law and Governance

10