English job offers are essential for immigrants. If you are a European Union citizen and you want to work in another member state, you need to be able to communicate. Often we don’t speak the local language from day one. We need time to get settled and learn the local language “on the job”. But despite the fact that English is the international language of business: The number of English jobs in EU members countries varies widely.
The Top 19 EU member countries with the most English job offers.
Please note: For Germany we offer the highest quality of data, since we analyze the complete German job market.
#19 Finland
#18 Greece
#17 Portugal
#16 Austria
#15 Denmark
#14 Hungary
#13 Italy
#12 Czech Republic
#11 Romania
#10 Spain
#9 Luxembourg
#8 Sweden
#7 France
#6 Poland
#5 Belgium
#4 Germany
#3 Netherlands
#2 Ireland
Let’s make this insight more meaningful for you. The total number of English jobs in each EU member country is one thing. To put it into perspective we should also look at the total population and the unemployment rate in each country. This way you get a feeling on how “welcoming” the labor market in each EU member country might be towards European professionals “on the move”.
Obviously the United Kingdom and Ireland have the highest number of English language job offers. But would you have expected the (relatively small) Netherlands to offer more jobs in English than Germany? 15% of all jobs in Amsterdam are English job offers. In Germany only 4% of all jobs are available in English. What can you learn from this fact for your own job hunt strategy? (And what could German employers learn – who have bigger and bigger trouble finding skilled labor due to our aging population?)
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