ICTJOB Germany GmbH

What ICTJOB Germany GmbH does

ICTJOB Germany GmbH operates ictjob.de, a two-sided online marketplace that connects German employers seeking IT talent with IT job seekers. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Stuttgart, the company positions itself as one of Germany's leading IT-specialized job boards, offering differentiated features including mandatory salary disclosure on every listing (including unpaid ones), IT-specific search filters by technology and role, and a staffing-agency exclusion option for candidates. The platform aggregates job listings directly from employers rather than indexing third-party sources, deliberately limiting inventory in favor of perceived quality.

The company's product portfolio for employers is tiered: a free employer profile; STARTER listings at €999 for 60 days; PRO listings at €2,499 for 365 days with monthly refresh and automatic career-page import; PREMIUM employer profiles with priority placement and bundling discounts; and a CPC-based PERFORMANCE marketing product with a €3,000 minimum spend that programmatically distributes jobs across 300+ external channels including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Xing. Distribution to passive candidates is further amplified through a network of over 100 exclusive IT content partners. The underlying technology is a web-based job portal with SEO-optimized category pages by city, technology, and role; structured job alerts; and integrated campaign management tooling for performance marketing.

The business model combines fixed-price subscription listings (STARTER, PRO), usage-based CPC advertising (PERFORMANCE), and freemium-to-paid employer profile subscriptions. Revenue mechanics are diversified across SMB self-serve buyers (likely the largest segment by volume) and enterprise customers running higher-spend performance campaigns. The company reports 81% employer recommendation rates and has been voted the best IT job board in Germany by employers for five consecutive years, indicating sustained marketplace traction despite operating with a small team.

Name

ICTJOB Germany GmbH

Legal name

ICTJOB Deutschland GmbH

Website

https://www.ictjob.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ICTJOB Germany GmbH operates ictjob.de, Germany's leading IT-specialized job marketplace, connecting IT employers with job seekers via tiered job listings, employer profiles, and programmatic performance marketing across 300+ channels.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Stuttgart

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Job listing advertising (STARTER & PRO): Fixed-price job listing packages for employers. STARTER offers a 60-day listing at €999 with standard placement. PRO offers a 365-day highlighted listing at €2,499 with monthly refresh and exchange capability (12x/year), auto-import from career pages, and 15% discount on STARTER bookings.
2. Performance marketing / CPC campaigns (PERFORMANCE): Cost-per-click (CPC) based performance marketing campaigns on 300+ external channels (Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing, and more). Minimum budget starts at €3,000. Add-on to STARTER/PRO listings or standalone. Includes programmatic advertising, daily budget optimization, retargeting, and dedicated campaign manager.
3. Employer profile subscriptions (FREE & PREMIUM): FREE employer profile provides visibility on the platform's IT company search, category sites, and network. PREMIUM profile adds priority placement above FREE listings, auto job import from career page, inclusion in marketing campaigns, optional CI layout, 10% discount on all reach products, and priority support.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

ICTJOB Germany GmbH operates ictjob.de, a two-sided online marketplace that connects German IT employers with IT job seekers. Employers purchase job listing packages (STARTER at €999 for 60 days, PRO at €2,499 for 365 days), subscribe to employer profile tiers (FREE and PREMIUM), and buy CPC-based performance marketing campaigns starting at €3,000 distributed across 300+ channels. Candidates search a curated database of IT jobs that all include salary information and that exclude staffing-agency listings.

Product overview

ICTJOB Germany GmbH operates ictjob.de, Germany's leading IT job search portal network. The platform offers a tiered product portfolio: the core ictjob.de portal for job seekers to search IT positions with salary data and specialized filters; combined with employer profile solutions ranging from FREE (basic visibility) to PREMIUM (priority placement and automated job import); and job posting packages (STARTER at €999 for 60 days, PRO at €2,499 for 365 days with refresh capability); plus CPC-based Performance Marketing campaigns across 300+ external channels starting at €3,000.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• IT Stellenanzeige STARTER (60-day job listing) A 60-day IT job posting product priced at €999 for German employers, providing elevated visibility in the ictjob.de company and job search, category sites, partner network, email alerts, and external job search engines, with a mobile-optimized HTML ad built in the employer's corporate CI.
• IT Stellenanzeige PRO (365-day job listing) A 365-day highlighted IT job posting priced at €2,499 for German employers, providing the highest visibility across ictjob.de company and job search, category sites, and partner network, with auto-import from employer career pages and 12 annual refresh/exchange opportunities.
• PREMIUM Employer Profile A subscription employer profile for German companies that provides priority placement above FREE profiles on ictjob.de, auto-import of IT positions from the employer's career page, inclusion in IT job marketing campaigns, optional corporate-identity layout, a 10% discount on all reach products, and priority support.
• PERFORMANCE CPC Marketing Campaign A usage-based CPC performance marketing product for employers with a €3,000 minimum budget, distributing jobs algorithmically across 300+ external channels (Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing, and other job boards), with daily budget optimization, retargeting, and a dedicated personal campaign manager.
• ictjob.de IT Job Search Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• 81% of employers would recommend ictjob to others
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• GooglecoreGTM or Marketing PartnerGoogle serves as a paid advertising channel for ictjob's PERFORMANCE marketing campaigns. Jobs are distributed via Google's advertising platform (search and display) as part of algorithmically optimized programmatic campaigns across 300+ external channels. This partnership enables employer job listings to reach active and passive IT candidates through Google's advertising network.
• FacebookcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerFacebook is a key channel in ictjob's PERFORMANCE programmatic advertising campaigns, enabling employer job listings to reach IT professionals on the social media platform. Job distribution is algorithmically optimized by ictjob's campaign managers.
• LinkedIncoreGTM or Marketing PartnerLinkedIn is used as a paid advertising channel within PERFORMANCE campaigns, targeting professional IT audiences. This enables employer reach to experienced and senior IT professionals in Germany through LinkedIn's professional network.
• XingcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerXing is a leading professional network in German-speaking markets and serves as a paid channel for PERFORMANCE marketing campaigns, targeting IT professionals within the platform's ecosystem.
• IT Content Partners Network (100+ exclusive partners)coreGTM or Marketing Partnerictjob.de has established a network of over 100 exclusive IT content partners who distribute ictjob listings to reach passive IT candidates. These partners help expand candidate reach beyond the platform's own audience, leveraging specialized IT media and content properties to surface job opportunities to relevant IT professionals.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Gulp: Gulp is one of Germany's largest IT and engineering-focused job boards, now part of Randstad. It directly competes with ictjob.de in the German IT candidate and employer market with a similar specialization and pricing model.
• Jobvector: Jobvector operates specialized job boards for IT, life sciences, engineering and medicine across DACH. It is a direct niche competitor, offering employers a similar vertical-specialized alternative to generalist platforms.
• Heise Jobs: Heise Jobs is the IT-focused job board operated by Heise Medien, leveraging the heise.de IT professional audience in Germany. It competes directly with ictjob.de for IT employer recruitment budgets and IT candidate attention.
• Jobware: Jobware is a German job board platform focused on skilled professionals including IT and engineering. It targets similar employer and candidate segments with subscription-based listings, competing directly with ictjob's STARTER/PRO products.
• Kimeta: Kimeta is a German job search engine aggregating listings from multiple sources. While not IT-exclusive, it competes with ictjob for organic IT candidate traffic and overlaps with employer multi-posting strategies.

Broad incumbents

• Stepstone: Stepstone is one of Germany's largest generalist job boards, owned by DNB/Nordic-listed StepStone Group. It competes with ictjob for IT recruitment spend as a broad incumbent adding IT-specific features, with much larger audience scale.
• Xing (NEW WORK SE): Xing is the leading German-language professional network and a major recruitment advertising platform. It competes with ictjob for employer IT recruitment budgets, especially via its e-Recruiting and Honeypot tech-talent products.
• LinkedIn: LinkedIn (Microsoft) is the dominant global professional network and a major channel for IT recruitment advertising and InMail sourcing. It is the broadest incumbent competing with ictjob for IT employer spend across Germany.
• Indeed: Indeed is the world's largest job search engine with strong penetration in Germany. It competes with ictjob on CPC-driven job advertising and aggregates listings from many employers that ictjob also serves.

Regional players

• Stellenanzeigen.de: Stellenanzeigen.de is a German generalist job board with strong SME and mid-market employer adoption. It competes with ictjob for IT employer recruitment budgets, particularly among smaller companies using simplified self-serve listings.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ictjob-de

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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