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Working in Cagliari

Regional and state public employment, health care and university first; then retail, tourism and catering, port and logistics, ICT (Tiscali, CRS4 at Pula, start-ups) and energy with the Sarroch refinery. The island's best job market but a small one; employment rates below the national average. ZES unica for investors.

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Sectors

Cagliari concentrates Sardinia's public employment: the Autonomous Region with its departments and agencies, Comune and Metropolitan City, state offices, courts, university, health care (Brotzu hospital, Monserrato Policlinico, city hospitals). The private sector consists of retail, professional services, tourism and catering (fast-growing, seasonal), port and logistics with the canal port container terminal, construction. ICT has its Sardinian history here, with Tiscali's headquarters at Sa Illetta, the CRS4 research centre at Pula and an ecosystem of start-ups and software companies; at Sarroch, twenty minutes away, the Saras refinery is among the largest in the Mediterranean. Agri-food and wine matter in the Campidano plain.

Businesses, coworking, remote work

The Cagliari-Oristano Chamber of Commerce publishes business data and offers services to start a business; the Region funds programmes for start-ups and for the return of skilled workers, and Sardegna Ricerche runs the Pula technology park. Coworking spaces are numerous in the centre (Marina, Stampace, San Benedetto) and fibre covers the whole city, which has attracted remote workers from the mainland in recent years. The skilled market remains small and employment rates are below the national average (see data), though better than the rest of the island.

Missing: employment_rate, unemployment_rate

Cagliari falls within the ZES unica for Southern Italy (since 2024): investment tax credit and single authorisation, with conditions updated every year by the ZES mission unit.

Sources

ISTAT – Rilevazione sulle forze di lavoro: tasso di occupazione (dataflow 150_915, DCCV_TAXOCCU1)· ISTATLicense: CC BY 4.0

Updated: 2026-10-14

ISTAT – Rilevazione sulle forze di lavoro: tasso di disoccupazione (dataflow 151_914, DCCV_TAXDISOCCU1)· ISTATLicense: CC BY 4.0

Updated: 2026-10-14

Camera di Commercio di Cagliari-Oristano· Camera di Commercio Cagliari-Oristano

Updated: 2026-10-14

CRS4 – Centro di Ricerca, Sviluppo e Studi Superiori in Sardegna· CRS4

Updated: 2026-10-14

Regione Autonoma della Sardegna – sito istituzionale· Regione Autonoma della Sardegna

Updated: 2026-10-14

Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sardegna· AdSP Mare di Sardegna

Updated: 2026-10-14

Struttura di missione ZES – ZES unica per il Mezzogiorno· Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri

Updated: 2026-10-14

Reviewed: 10/23/2026 · by piero.avolio · rev. 1 · Period: → 2027-04-30

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