Brnoruns 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
Red Hat, Kentico, Y Soft, AVG/Gen Digital lineage, Kiwi.com engineering, NetSuite and Oracle operations
Brno is Czechia's second software centre and, for open-source and enterprise infrastructure work specifically, arguably its first — several global engineering organisations run substantial teams here rather than in Prague.
Law & the judiciary
Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, Supreme Administrative Court, Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, Public Defender of Rights
The country's highest courts sit here by design, as a counterweight to Prague. That produces a deep legal labour market and a law faculty with national reach.
Higher education & research
Masaryk University, Brno University of Technology, Mendel University, CEITEC, the University of Veterinary Sciences
Masaryk is the second-largest university in the country and CEITEC is a major life-sciences and advanced-materials research institute — the student population visibly shapes the city's rhythm and rents.
Electron microscopy & precision instruments
Thermo Fisher Scientific (formerly FEI Czech Republic), TESCAN, Delong Instruments
An unusually specific local speciality: a very large share of the world's electron microscopes are designed and built in and around Brno, a cluster running back to Czechoslovak instrument-making.
Business services & shared operations
IBM, Honeywell, AT&T lineage operations, Kyndryl, SAP, Infosys
Multinationals running pan-European finance, IT and support functions — the largest single source of English-speaking entry-level employment in the city.
Trade fairs, engineering & viticulture
Brno Exhibition Centre (BVV), Zetor, Siemens, the South Moravian wine sector
The exhibition centre is one of Europe's larger trade-fair grounds and the International Engineering Fair is a fixture; south of the city, wine is a genuine regional industry rather than a sideline.
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