Market map · Switzerland

Automotive in Switzerland_

As of 4 November 2026, 11,712 automotive companies are based in Switzerland: 168 with 51+ employees, 65 hiring right now, led by vehicle repair & detailing and Zürich.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
11,712
51+ employees
168 · 1%
Hiring now
65 · 15 new in 30 d
Largest segment
Vehicle repair & detailing · 6,638
Top city
Zürich · 231
Running cold outbound
0
11,712automotive companies in Switzerland
168with 51+ employees
65hiring on their own career site today
15opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Automotive in Switzerland, by segment

Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
Vehicle repair & detailing
6,638 · 20
Vehicle & parts retail
5,689 · 38
Vehicle & transport equipment manufacturing
580 · 10
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
2,224 · 0
2-10 employees
8,846 · 20
11-50 employees
474 · 16
51-200 employees
130 · 18
201-500 employees
16 · 3
501-1000 employees
6 · 2
1001-5000 employees
9 · 4
5001-10000 employees
2 · 0
10,001+ employees
5 · 2
By city
companiesshare
Zürich
2312%
Genève
901%
Winterthur
851%
St. Gallen
751%
Basel
731%
Lausanne
671%
Bern
621%
Schlieren
570%
Yverdon-les-Bains
500%
Luzern
450%
Gerlikon
400%
Baar
360%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest automotive companies in Switzerland

The largest companies of the market, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

11,712 automotive companies in Switzerland; 65 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of automotive in Switzerland

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11,712 automotive companies are based in Switzerland: 168 with 51 or more employees, 65 hiring right now (15 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by vehicle repair & detailing and Zürich. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/automotive/switzerland)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • 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.
FAQ

Automotive in Switzerland: questions

How many automotive companies are there in Switzerland?

11,712 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 168 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 Switzerland are hiring?

65 have an open role on their own career site today and 15 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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Yes: filter on automotive and Switzerland, add size, city or technology, and export with verified e-mails. The first 20 largest companies are on this page.

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