Electrical engineering in Austria: trade licences by state
Austria has 11,344 trade licences for Electrical engineering at a main location, 1.2% of all 956,831 licences.
Most are in Lower Austria (2,518).
5,390 of them are held by companies and other legal persons, 0 are reported dormant.
Of the licences valid today, 680 took effect in 2025 and 586 in 2024.
Kind according to GISA: reglementiertes Gewerbe. GISA key 1601. What this means
By state
| Lower Austria | 2,518 |
| Upper Austria | 1,904 |
| Vienna | 1,678 |
| Styria | 1,640 |
| Salzburg | 963 |
| Tyrol | 932 |
| Carinthia | 810 |
| Vorarlberg | 454 |
| Burgenland | 445 |
The ten districts with the most licences
| Salzburg-Umgebung | 324 |
| Graz-Umgebung | 255 |
| St. Pölten-Land | 253 |
| Innsbruck-Land | 253 |
| Graz | 250 |
| Baden | 224 |
| Linz-Land | 206 |
| Mödling | 205 |
| Vöcklabruck | 182 |
| Zell am See | 181 |
Took effect, by year
| 2026 | 581 |
| 2025 | 680 |
| 2024 | 586 |
| 2023 | 709 |
| 2022 | 597 |
| 2021 | 457 |
| 2020 | 343 |
| 2019 | 343 |
| 2018 | 329 |
| 2017 | 323 |
| 2016 | 311 |
Only licences valid today; ended ones are not in the dataset.
More trades
- Professional photographer: 11,062
- Taxi: 10,875
- Goods transport up to 3.5 t: 10,564
Source: GISA (Austrian trade information system), Federal Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism, dataset "Gewerbe in Österreich" on data.gv.at, CC BY 4.0, as of November 2026. Counted are valid trade licences at main locations. data.gv.at. As of November 2026.
Source: Austrian company register (Firmenbuch), Republic of Austria, represented by the BMJ, open data under CC BY 4.0.