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As of 4 November 2026, 4,763 automotive companies are based in Portugal: 153 with 51+ employees, 16 hiring right now, led by vehicle & parts retail and Lisboa.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies, confident classification
- 4,763
- 51+ employees
- 153 · 3%
- Hiring now
- 16 · 4 new in 30 d
- Largest segment
- Vehicle & parts retail · 3,245
- Top city
- Lisboa · 203
- Running cold outbound
- 1
Automotive in Portugal, by segment
Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Vehicle & parts retail | 3,245 · 11 |
| Vehicle repair & detailing | 1,543 · 4 |
| Vehicle & transport equipment manufacturing | 214 · 2 |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 685 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 3,653 · 2 |
| 11-50 employees | 272 · 2 |
| 51-200 employees | 100 · 4 |
| 201-500 employees | 33 · 6 |
| 501-1000 employees | 13 · 2 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 6 · 0 |
| 10,001+ employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Lisboa | 203 | 4% |
| Braga | 100 | 2% |
| Porto | 95 | 2% |
| Maia | 53 | 1% |
| Viseu | 52 | 1% |
| Leiria | 42 | 1% |
| Amadora | 39 | 1% |
| Vila Nova de Gaia | 37 | 1% |
| Setúbal | 29 | 1% |
| Funchal | 27 | 1% |
| Coimbra | 25 | 1% |
| Lisbon | 23 | 0% |
The biggest automotive companies in Portugal
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The stack of automotive in Portugal
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4,763 automotive companies are based in Portugal: 153 with 51 or more employees, 16 hiring right now (4 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by vehicle & parts retail and Lisboa. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/automotive/portugal)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
- StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
Automotive in Portugal: questions
How many automotive companies are there in Portugal?
4,763 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 153 of them have 51 or more employees.
How do you know a company belongs to automotive?
We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.
Which automotive companies in Portugal are hiring?
16 have an open role on their own career site today and 4 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.
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