Bucharestruns on a handful of strong industries. If you’re job-hunting or weighing a move, here’s where the opportunities (and the big-name employers) are.
Top industries & employers
Software & IT services
UiPath, Bitdefender, Endava, Luxoft, Softbinator, Adobe, Oracle, Microsoft
UiPath was founded in Bucharest in 2005 and became Romania's first technology company to list on the New York Stock Exchange; Bitdefender was also founded here and is one of the largest independent security vendors in Europe.
Business process & shared services
Genpact, Accenture, Deloitte, EY, WNS, Wipro
Bucharest hosts one of Europe's largest concentrations of multilingual shared service centres, hiring in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Nordic languages as much as in English.
Banking & financial services
Banca Transilvania, BCR, BRD Société Générale, ING, Raiffeisen, UniCredit
The National Bank of Romania and the Bucharest Stock Exchange are both here, and Romania's banking sector is concentrated in the capital to an unusual degree.
Energy & utilities
OMV Petrom, Romgaz, Hidroelectrica, Transelectrica, Nuclearelectrica
Romania is one of the EU's few significant domestic gas producers, and the Neptun Deep Black Sea project has made Bucharest an energy capital in a way it was not a decade ago.
Automotive & engineering services
Renault Technologie Roumanie, Continental, Bosch, Honeywell
Renault's Romanian engineering centre is one of the largest automotive R&D operations outside France, and much of the Dacia platform work is done from here.
Pharmaceuticals & medical
Zentiva, Antibiotice, Terapia, Regina Maria, MedLife
Private healthcare groups headquartered in Bucharest have consolidated aggressively and now run networks that many employers use in place of, or alongside, the state system.
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