Market map · Germany

Utilities & infrastructure in Germany_

As of 4 November 2026, 8,425 utilities & infrastructure companies are based in Germany: 975 with 51+ employees, 622 hiring right now, led by waste management & recycling and Berlin.

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

Companies, confident classification
8,425
51+ employees
975 · 12%
Hiring now
622 · 172 new in 30 d
Largest segment
Waste management & recycling · 3,876
Top city
Berlin · 181
Running cold outbound
8
8,425utilities & infrastructure companies in Germany
975with 51+ employees
622hiring on their own career site today
172opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Utilities & infrastructure in Germany, by segment

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

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
Waste management & recycling
3,876 · 238
Energy grids & heat networks
1,635 · 249
Energy retail & trading
1,160 · 53
Telecom operators & isps
969 · 43
Water & wastewater utilities
730 · 76
Power generation
649 · 26
Energy asset services
201 · 13
Oil gas & fuels production
62 · 3
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
1,071 · 4
2-10 employees
5,634 · 220
11-50 employees
745 · 77
51-200 employees
540 · 159
201-500 employees
263 · 93
501-1000 employees
91 · 26
1001-5000 employees
65 · 35
5001-10000 employees
7 · 2
10,001+ employees
9 · 6
By city
companiesshare
Berlin
1812%
Hamburg
1231%
Herdecke
1021%
München
901%
Köln
861%
Düsseldorf
831%
Lünen
751%
Frankfurt am Main
711%
Essen
551%
Bochum
451%
Stuttgart
451%
Bremen
420%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest utilities & infrastructure companies in Germany

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

Veolia DeutschlandMunicipal & commercial waste collection · Berlin10,001+ employeesSWM (Stadtwerke München)Electricity grid operators · Moosburg10,001+ employeesStadtwerke KölnElectricity grid operators · Canary Wharf10,001+ employeesBSR – Berliner StadtreinigungsbetriebeMunicipal & commercial waste collection · Berlin5001-10000 employeesALBA Europe HoldingRecycling & sorting facilities · Berlin5001-10000 employeesenviaM-GruppeElectricity grid operators · Chemnitz1001-5000 employeesEntsorgungsbetriebe Essen (EBE)Municipal & commercial waste collection · Essen1001-5000 employeesEmschergenossenschaft und LippeverbandWastewater & sewerage utilities1001-5000 employeesStadtwerke Augsburg Holding GmbHElectricity grid operators · Wiesbaden1001-5000 employeesStadtwerke MünsterElectricity grid operators · Münster1001-5000 employeesVodafoneConsumer isp broadband1001-5000 employeesWSW Wuppertaler Stadtwerke GmbHElectricity grid operators · Wuppertal1001-5000 employeesGELSENWASSE AGWater & utility authorities · Gelsenkirchen1001-5000 employeesHamburger EnergienetzeElectricity grid operators · Hamburg1001-5000 employeesSchönmackersMunicipal & commercial waste collection · Kempen1001-5000 employeesHAMBURG WASSERWater supply utilities · Hamburg1001-5000 employeesStadtwerke BielefeldElectricity grid operators · Bielefeld1001-5000 employeesTEAGEnergy retail suppliers · Erfurt1001-5000 employeesLEWElectricity grid operators · Donauwörth1001-5000 employeesStadtwerke KarlsruheElectricity grid operators · Karlsruhe1001-5000 employees
8,425 utilities & infrastructure companies in Germany; 622 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of utilities & infrastructure in Germany

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8,425 utilities & infrastructure companies are based in Germany: 975 with 51 or more employees, 622 hiring right now (172 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by waste management & recycling and Berlin. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/utilities_infrastructure/germany)
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

Utilities & infrastructure in Germany: questions

How many utilities & infrastructure companies are there in Germany?

8,425 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 975 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company belongs to utilities & infrastructure?

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 utilities & infrastructure companies in Germany are hiring?

622 have an open role on their own career site today and 172 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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