The construction industry is widely acknowledged for its dynamic environment and significant contribution to global economic development. Within this high-pressure sector, the role of executive-level professionals is vital in ensuring the smooth execution of projects. However, the unique challenges faced by these professionals often influence their job satisfaction and overall happiness. Meanwhile, this study aims to explore happiness and job satisfaction research-related publishing patterns and trends the most commonly used author keywords in the Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) databases. The eminent software, ScientoPy and VOSviewer, are used to run and execute relevant publication data retrieved from Scopus and WoS. The results showed a positive trend in the growth of happiness and job satisfaction literature in both databases since 2000. The top three research areas that dominate this topic are “business & economics”, “psychology”, and “social sciences - other topics”. Based on a country analysis, the United States has become an active publisher, followed by the China and United Kingdom. Importantly, this study emphasised the scholarly practices prevalent in happiness and job satisfaction research have impressively propagated. The trends will assist researchers in recognizing various fields in identifying the core areas, proactive institutions, and productive authors published in this knowledge for supplementary investigation. Besides, by examining the most popular keywords, the results of this study enable researchers to discover the possibility for future research that may be conducted, particularly concerning the annual growth rates, which have been trending in the last five years.