Last updated: 2026-08-31
Qarera's index holds 25,398 live job postings in Germany and 25,247 in the United Kingdom. The two totals are within a few percent of each other. Language is what separates them. 31.9% of postings in Germany are written in English against 99.9% in the United Kingdom, which leaves 8,101 openings in Germany and 25,210 in the United Kingdom that a candidate who reads only English can act on. The United Kingdom carries 3.1 times as many.
The difference is not in how much hiring happens. It is in how much of it a candidate can read.
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 | United Kingdom |
|---|---|---|
| Live job postingsadvertised right now | 25,398 | 25,247 |
| Postings written in Englishcount, and share of all postings | 8,101 (31.9%) | 25,210 (99.9%) |
| Remote-friendlyshare of all postings | 14.3% | 15.3% |
| Mention visa or relocation supportshare of English-language postings, not comparable across countries | 11.2% | 9.5% |
| Largest hiring cityshare of the country total | Berlin (20.6%) | London (32.1%) |
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 9.5% in the United Kingdom. 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 United Kingdom
An employer needs a Home Office sponsor licence before it can hire most non-residents, and the Skilled Worker route requires an offer from a licensed sponsor. Sponsorship is a status the employer either holds or does not, which gives it a reason to say so in the advert.
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.
London holds 32.1% of all postings in the United Kingdom. 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 Birmingham carries 982 against London's 8,100.
| # | Germany | Postings | United Kingdom | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berlin | 5,241 | London | 8,100 |
| 2 | Munich | 2,900 | Birmingham | 982 |
| 3 | Hamburg | 1,249 | Manchester | 839 |
| 4 | Frankfurt am Main | 1,244 | Edinburgh | 583 |
| 5 | Stuttgart | 1,152 | Leeds | 491 |
| 6 | Düsseldorf | 752 | Glasgow | 451 |
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 45.3% in the United Kingdom.
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 United Kingdom it is Leonardo, at 1.1%. The lists below are what sits at the top of each market, which is a question of composition rather than concentration.
Remote-friendly postings run at 14.3% in Germany and 15.3% in the United Kingdom. On this measure the two markets are the same, and a decision between them should not turn on it.
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 United Kingdom's 25,210 (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.
London holds 32.1% of live job postings in the United Kingdom, 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.
9.5% of English-language job postings in the United Kingdom mention visa sponsorship or relocation support (2,392 of 25,210 postings, Aug 2026), according to Qarera's live job index.
Figures for the comparison of job postings in Germany and the United Kingdom are drawn from 50,645 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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