Last updated: 2026-08-31
Qarera's index holds 25,398 live job postings in Germany and 12,486 in the Netherlands. Germany is 2.0 times the size. Language is what separates them. 31.9% of postings in Germany are written in English against 41.5% in the Netherlands, which leaves 8,101 openings in Germany and 5,182 in the Netherlands that a candidate who reads only English can act on.
Every figure on this page is counted from postings collected directly from company career pages and applicant tracking systems, not from other job boards, and it refreshes daily.
| Measure | Germany | Netherlands |
|---|---|---|
| Live job postingsadvertised right now | 25,398 | 12,486 |
| Postings written in Englishcount, and share of all postings | 8,101 (31.9%) | 5,182 (41.5%) |
| Remote-friendlyshare of all postings | 14.3% | 8.9% |
| Mention visa or relocation supportshare of English-language postings, not comparable across countries | 11.2% | 9.3% |
| Largest hiring cityshare of the country total | Berlin (20.6%) | Amsterdam (28%) |
The index records the language a posting is written in. That is not the same as the language the job requires. A German-language advert is not proof that the role needs fluent German, and an English advert is not proof that the workplace runs in English day to day.
What it does measure is the filter a candidate hits first. An advert they cannot read is an advert they cannot answer, whatever the role would have tolerated. That is why the count of English-language postings is a better guide to how open a market feels than the count of postings overall.
11.2% of English-language postings in Germany mention visa sponsorship or relocation support, against 9.3% in the Netherlands. Those two numbers sit in the table above, and they should not be read as a ranking. The systems behind them differ in kind, so a posting's silence means a different thing in each country.
Germany
There is no employer licence. Under the Skilled Immigration Act the route runs on the candidate’s recognised qualification and salary, and the Opportunity Card lets a candidate arrive to look for work without an offer at all. An employer can hire from abroad without holding any special status, so it has little reason to mention one.
The Netherlands
An employer must be an IND recognised sponsor to use the highly skilled migrant route, which is set by a salary threshold rather than a labour market test. Recognition is common among larger employers and rarely advertised.
The phrase match is blunt in both directions as well. It counts a posting that says sponsorship is available and a posting that says the candidate must already hold a valid work visa, and those point opposite ways. Read the share within one country over time, or across employers inside one country. Do not read it across two immigration regimes. Rules also change faster than any index; check the responsible authority before relying on the summaries above.
Amsterdam holds 28% of all postings in the Netherlands. Berlin holds 20.6% of Germany's. The second cities pull them further apart: Munich carries 2,900 postings against Berlin's 5,241, while Rotterdam carries 2,063 against Amsterdam's 3,492.
| # | Germany | Postings | Netherlands | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berlin | 5,241 | Amsterdam | 3,492 |
| 2 | Munich | 2,900 | Rotterdam | 2,063 |
| 3 | Hamburg | 1,249 | Utrecht | 1,248 |
| 4 | Frankfurt am Main | 1,244 | The Hague | 602 |
| 5 | Stuttgart | 1,152 | Eindhoven | 526 |
| 6 | Düsseldorf | 752 | Tilburg | 215 |
Not every posting names a city, so these shares do not add up to 100%. The six cities above account for 49.4% of postings in Germany and 65.2% in the Netherlands.
Neither market is held up by a handful of employers. The largest single advertiser in Germany, Debeka, accounts for 2.5% of the country's live postings. In the Netherlands it is VDK Groep B.V., at 4.6%. The lists below are what sits at the top of each market, which is a question of composition rather than concentration.
Germany advertises the higher share of remote-friendly work, 14.3% against 8.9%. A posting counts as remote-friendly when the advert itself says so, which understates hybrid roles that never spell it out.
Each of these is written to stand on its own, with the sample and the date inside the sentence.
Germany advertises 8,101 live job postings in English to the Netherlands's 5,182 (Aug 2026), according to Qarera's live job index.
About 1 in 3 job postings in Germany are written in English (31.9% of 25,398 live postings, Aug 2026), according to Qarera's live job index.
About 2 in 5 job postings in the Netherlands are written in English (41.5% of 12,486 live postings, Aug 2026), according to Qarera's live job index.
Amsterdam holds 28% of live job postings in the Netherlands, against Berlin's 20.6% in Germany (Aug 2026), according to Qarera's live job index.
11.2% of English-language job postings in Germany mention visa sponsorship or relocation support (910 of 8,101 postings, Aug 2026), according to Qarera's live job index.
9.3% of English-language job postings in the Netherlands mention visa sponsorship or relocation support (480 of 5,182 postings, Aug 2026), according to Qarera's live job index.
Figures for the comparison of job postings in Germany and the Netherlands are drawn from 37,884 live postings across both markets, as of 2026-08-31. Postings are collected from company career pages and applicant tracking systems and refreshed daily; see how the index is built and what it cannot tell you.
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