Market Search is Ceek's salary benchmarking and talent market intelligence service for Malta. Before you set a package, restructure a team or plan an expansion, we tell you what the market actually pays, where the talent sits and how hard your target profile is to hire. Decisions built on evidence beat decisions built on last year's assumptions.
Brief: you tell us the roles, sectors or decisions the research needs to inform, and we agree scope and format.
Research: we combine live vacancy data, candidate conversations and placement experience into a picture of the current market.
Report: you receive clear findings with practical recommendations, presented and discussed rather than left to interpretation.
Most salary decisions in Malta are made on stale or secondhand information: what the last hire cost, what a departing employee claimed they were offered, what a generic survey said about a market it barely covers. Market Search replaces that with evidence gathered by people who recruit in the Maltese market every day.
The service answers practical questions. What does this role pay right now, at this seniority, in this sector? Why are we losing offers, or losing staff? How large is the realistic candidate pool for a planned team, and should we expect to recruit internationally? What do competitor packages look like beyond base salary?
Because Ceek's consultants work live vacancies across Finance, iGaming, Tech, Compliance, Hospitality, Manufacturing and beyond, our intelligence reflects what candidates are actually accepting, not just what surveys report. Findings stay qualitative where precision would be false and specific where the data supports it. Clients use Market Search ahead of salary reviews, expansion planning, hard to fill searches and retention problems they want to understand before acting on.
From the market itself: live vacancies we run, offers made and accepted, candidate salary expectations gathered in interviews, and placement outcomes across our sectors. We supplement this with advertised market data where useful. It reflects what is happening in Maltese hiring now, which is why it often differs from generic international salary surveys.
Yes. Single role benchmarks are common, typically requested before briefing a difficult vacancy or countering a resignation. We report the realistic package range for the role in the current market, what candidates at that level expect beyond salary, and how competitive your intended offer would be. Scope and cost stay proportionate to the question.
Each engagement is researched fresh at the time you commission it, anchored in live vacancy activity and recent candidate conversations rather than an ageing database. Market conditions in Malta can shift within months, particularly in competitive sectors, so we date our findings and are clear about how long you can safely rely on them.