Cairoruns 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
Fintech & payments
Fawry, Paymob, MNT-Halan, Valu
Egypt's strongest startup sector by some distance. Fawry became the country's first tech unicorn and Paymob and MNT-Halan have both raised heavily on the back of a large, underbanked population.
Outsourcing & shared services
_VOIS (Vodafone), Orange Business, Concentrix, Teleperformance
A very large multilingual outsourcing sector serving Europe and the Gulf — the most reliable source of English-language white-collar employment in Cairo.
Oil, gas & energy
Eni, BP, Apache, EGPC
Eastern Mediterranean gas has made Egypt a significant regional energy player, with the international operators' regional offices in Cairo.
Construction & new cities
Orascom, Talaat Moustafa, ACUD
The New Administrative Capital east of Cairo is one of the largest urban construction projects anywhere, and the sector employs at enormous scale.
Film, television & music
Cairo studios, regional broadcasters
Cairo has been the Arab world's screen capital for a century, which is precisely why Egyptian Arabic became the region's common dialect.
Tourism & heritage
Grand Egyptian Museum, hotel and tour operators
The Grand Egyptian Museum's full opening reset the sector, and heritage tourism remains a major foreign-currency earner.
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