Zaragozaruns 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
Data centres & cloud infrastructure
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Blackstone/QTS, Box2Bit
Aragón hosts Amazon's Spanish AWS region and a Microsoft cloud build-out running to billions of euros, which has made the province Spain's densest concentration of hyperscale data centre construction.
Automotive manufacturing
Stellantis Figueruelas (formerly Opel/GM), Grupo Antolin, Adient, Faurecia
The Figueruelas plant twenty kilometres outside the city is one of the largest car factories in Europe and has anchored a deep regional supplier network since 1982.
Logistics & distribution
PLAZA platform tenants, Inditex, Amazon, Grupo Sesé, Mercadona
PLAZA is one of Europe's largest logistics platforms, built on Zaragoza's position roughly equidistant from Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao — the reason so much Spanish distribution is routed through here.
Renewable energy & grid
Forestalia, Endesa, Iberdrola, Siemens Gamesa, Saeta Yield
Aragón has one of the highest concentrations of installed wind and solar capacity in Spain, which is exactly why the data centres came, and it supports a substantial engineering and O&M workforce.
Agri-food & wine
Grupo Térvalis, Bodegas Aragonesas, Pastas Alimenticias Romero, Cárnicas Cinco Villas
Ternasco lamb, the Somontano, Cariñena and Campo de Borja wine denominations and a large irrigated arable belt along the Ebro give the region a food-processing sector out of proportion to its population.
Higher education & research
Universidad de Zaragoza, CSIC, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón, Fundación CIRCE
The Universidad de Zaragoza dates from 1542, is the region's largest employer of graduates, and its engineering and materials research feeds directly into the local energy and automotive clusters.
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