Engineering offices in Austria: trade licences by state
Austria has 8,564 trade licences for Engineering offices at a main location, 0.9% of all 956,831 licences.
Most are in Styria (1,583).
3,775 of them are held by companies and other legal persons, 1 are reported dormant.
Of the licences valid today, 438 took effect in 2025 and 331 in 2024.
Kind according to GISA: reglementiertes Gewerbe. GISA key 6902. What this means
By state
| Styria | 1,583 |
| Lower Austria | 1,489 |
| Upper Austria | 1,412 |
| Vienna | 1,352 |
| Carinthia | 812 |
| Tyrol | 770 |
| Salzburg | 583 |
| Burgenland | 321 |
| Vorarlberg | 242 |
The ten districts with the most licences
| Graz | 489 |
| Linz | 271 |
| Graz-Umgebung | 267 |
| Innsbruck-Land | 214 |
| Mödling | 199 |
| Klagenfurt am Wörthersee | 197 |
| Salzburg-Umgebung | 185 |
| Salzburg | 182 |
| Innsbruck | 181 |
| Linz-Land | 174 |
Took effect, by year
| 2026 | 368 |
| 2025 | 438 |
| 2024 | 331 |
| 2023 | 348 |
| 2022 | 318 |
| 2021 | 352 |
| 2020 | 274 |
| 2019 | 405 |
| 2018 | 306 |
| 2017 | 286 |
| 2016 | 287 |
Only licences valid today; ended ones are not in the dataset.
More trades
- Joiner: 8,239
- Master builder: 7,785
- Trade (retail and wholesale): 158,318
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.