About Ingenieur

Ingenieur

Ingenieur.de is the German online portal for engineers and IT specialists, operated by the VDI Verlag in Düsseldorf. As the digital knowledge home for the engineering professions, the portal bundles technology, career, and news under one roof: the daily technology news from the economy, science, and research, the 15,000 specialist articles with the thematically matching jobs, and the career topics with the engineer's job market in the editorial focus. With its job board, company profiles, salary test, newsletters, podcast, and the VDI nachrichten Recruiting Tage career fairs, it serves the engineers' professional lives.

Overview

Ingenieur.de appears as the engineers' portal: the medium for the engineers, the IT specialists, the career entrants, the young professionals, and the technical specialists and managers who shape the technologies. The editorial program delivers the daily tech news from the economy, science, and research; the 15,000 specialist articles covering the engineering topics comprehensively, with the thematically matching jobs displayed alongside the articles; and the career topics from the entry to the advancement, with the engineer labor market in the editorial focus. The services support the professional lives concretely: the internship and job board with the searchable positions, the company profiles presenting the employers, the salary test benchmarking the earnings, the newsletters delivering the updates, the podcast for the listening, and the career fairs for the encounters.

The portal's cross-media combination with the VDI nachrichten weekly newspaper reaches 391,000 readers/users per month (LAE 2025): the print's authority and the portal's currency serving the technical management. The social-media channels, with over 136,000 fans and followers, extend the community.

History

Ingenieur.de grew from the VDI Verlag's digital expansion: the Düsseldorf publishing house, the 100% subsidiary of the VDI GmbH and the leading media company for engineers, extended its VDI nachrichten weekly newspaper into the digital. The portal's development tracked the engineers' digitalization: from the print job market to the online job board, from the newspaper articles to the 15,000-article database, from the career fairs to the event-matching app.

The VDI nachrichten's history frames the portal: the opinion-forming weekly newspaper on technology, economy, and society, with its 105,292 sold copies and its technical-management readership, provided the brand and the audience. The portal's growth reflected the engineers' media shift: the daily news online, the jobs searchable, and the careers managed digitally.

Coverage and Content

The technology coverage delivers the daily news: the engineering developments from the economy, the science, and the research, from the automotive to the mechanical engineering to the electromobility. The 15,000 specialist articles provide the depth: the engineering topics covered comprehensively, with the thematically matching jobs displayed alongside. The career coverage addresses the professional lives: the career planning, the professional development, the personality development and resilience, and the successful career entry and reorientation.

The job-market content serves the recruitment: the job board with the attractive positions, the top-job packages, and the teaser ads in the VDI nachrichten reaching the 350,000 weekly readers. The Recruiting Tage career fairs, like the Hamburg 2026 event with Rheinmetall, Lufthansa Technik, and Deutsche Bahn, connect the engineers with the employers: the direct exchange, the real job offers, the free CV checks, and the event-matching app.

The Recruiting Tage

The VDI nachrichten Recruiting Tage are the portal's physical flagship: the career fairs for engineers where the employers meet the candidates. The Hamburg 2026 event, on 28 October at the Handelskammer, exemplifies the format: the direct exchange with the employers' specialist and HR departments, the real job offers for the engineers, the free CV checks and individual career counseling, the event-matching app for the targeted networking, and the job board with the attractive positions.

The participating employers, from Rheinmetall to TKMS to Lufthansa Technik to Deutsche Bahn to Die Autobahn GmbH, show the engineering labor market's breadth: the defense, the shipbuilding, the aviation, the rail, and the infrastructure. The career impulses, from the career planning to the personality development to the VDI panel discussion on the engineer labor market "between stagnation and progress," address the profession's questions. The VDI/IW engineer monitor, presented at the fairs, provides the data: the labor market's state in Hamburg and northern Germany, the challenges and the opportunities. In the engineering profession where the personal contact still matters, the Recruiting Tage are the marketplace: the portal's digital reach extended into the physical encounter.

The Engineers' Profession

Ingenieur.de serves the German engineering profession: the engineers who design the machines, build the infrastructure, and develop the technologies. The profession's labor market, tracked by the VDI/IW engineer monitor, oscillates between the shortage and the change: the engineers are sought, but the transformation reshapes the demands. The portal's career content addresses this market: the salary test showing the earnings, the job board showing the opportunities, and the fairs connecting the candidates.

The engineers' information need spans the technology and the career: the professionals must follow the technical developments and manage their careers, and the portal serves both. The LAE reader analysis documents the audience: predominantly male, aged 30-59, university-educated, with the engineering training and the high incomes, in the technical management. The portal reaches the profession's core: the engineers who decide and the engineers who seek.

Organization and Ownership

Ingenieur.de is operated by the VDI Verlag GmbH, VDI-Platz 1, 40468 Düsseldorf, the 100% subsidiary of the VDI GmbH and the leading media company for engineers and technical specialists and managers. The managing director and editor-in-chief is Ken Fouhy. The portal shares the VDI Verlag's infrastructure: the vdi-nachrichten.com portal, the VDI nachrichten weekly, and the media-data organization.

The business model is the professional-portal model: the job-board revenues from the employers' postings, with the top-job packages and the teaser ads, reaching the actively and passively job-seeking engineers, the career entrants, the young professionals, and the technical specialists and managers; the advertising from the industry's companies addressing the engineering audience; and the career-fair income from the Recruiting Tage. The cross-media packages combine the portal with the VDI nachrichten print: the employers' postings appear additionally in the weekly newspaper with its 350,000 readers, with the attractive discounts from the small contingents. The LAE 2026 analysis documents the reach: 396,000 readers/users per month crossmedially, with the VDI nachrichten showing the highest affinity to the technical management among all newspaper titles.

Digital Presence

Ingenieur.de is the digital presence: the portal with the daily news, the 15,000 articles, the job board, and the career services. The twice-weekly technology newsletter and the fortnightly career newsletter deliver the updates into the mailboxes. The podcast brings the audio: the career and technology topics for the listening. The social-media channels, with over 136,000 followers and 8,044 on LinkedIn, connect the community: the career tips, the job highlights, and the event announcements.

For the engineers, ingenieur.de is the professional home: the portal with the daily technology news, the 15,000 specialist articles, the job board with the matching positions, the salary test, the newsletters, the podcast, and the Recruiting Tage career fairs, serving the engineering professions' daily lives from the career entry to the management. In the profession shaping the future's technologies, from the electromobility to the digitalization, the portal provides the knowledge that the engineers need: the digital Wissensheimat for the engineers and IT specialists, one article, one job, one career at a time.