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The Perkly Card Index: September 2026

A series of articles on the credit cards UAE residents chose in September 2026, based on more than 300 card searches on Perkly: by category, by salary, and the month's trends.

Published · Covers September 2026

Based on Perkly data for September 2026: more than 300 card searches, and the card pages, Apply clicks and applications that followed, on perkly.ae between 1 and 30 September 2026. Card fees, rates and offers on this page update live from Perkly’s card database.

Card searches
300+
Searches for cashback
59%
Cards compared
242
Banks and issuers
30

The Perkly Card Index is a monthly series about which credit cards people choose on Perkly: the cards they apply for, click Apply on and read about. It is built from behaviour, not from bank advertising, and no bank can pay to appear in it.

September's headline: simple cashback won again, and Emirates Skywards rose. 6 in 10 searches were for a cashback card, and the three most chosen cards of the month were cashback cards: Invest Bank's flat-rate Platinum and Mawarid Finance's Platinum and Titanium. Travel grew to about 3 in 10 searches, and every travel card applied for through Perkly was an Emirates Skywards card.

This month the category lists and the salary guides alternate, one article a day. Every article links straight to each card's details and application.

The September 2026 series

16 articles, each on September 2026 data.

  1. 1Best cashback credit cards in the UAE: September 20264 October 2026
  2. 2Best travel credit cards in the UAE: September 20264 October 2026
  3. 3The best credit cards for an AED 5,000 salary in the UAE, September 2026Coming 5 October 2026
  4. 4Best Emirates Skywards credit cards in the UAE: September 2026Coming 6 October 2026
  5. 5The best credit cards for an AED 10,000 salary in the UAE, September 2026Coming 7 October 2026
  6. 6Best Etihad Guest credit cards in the UAE: September 2026Coming 8 October 2026
  7. 7The best credit cards for an AED 15,000 salary in the UAE, September 2026Coming 9 October 2026
  8. 8The 10 most popular credit cards in the UAE: September 2026Coming 10 October 2026
  9. 9The best credit cards for an AED 20,000 salary in the UAE, September 2026Coming 11 October 2026
  10. 10Best rewards credit cards in the UAE: September 2026Coming 12 October 2026
  11. 11The best credit cards for an AED 25,000 salary in the UAE, September 2026Coming 13 October 2026
  12. 12Best no annual fee credit cards in the UAE: September 2026Coming 14 October 2026
  13. 13The best credit cards for an AED 30,000 salary in the UAE, September 2026Coming 15 October 2026
  14. 14Best Islamic credit cards in the UAE: September 2026Coming 16 October 2026
  15. 15The best credit cards for an AED 50,000+ salary in the UAE, September 2026Coming 17 October 2026
  16. 16How the UAE chose credit cards in September 2026Coming 18 October 2026

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