Where are the jobs for foreigners in Europe? 16 countries, 45,636 live listings

Workcamino dataUpdated nightly · counted 24 September 2026

“Which European country is easiest for a foreigner to find a job in?” is asked a thousand times a month and answered with opinions. This page answers the part of it that can be counted. We track 45,636 open jobs across 16 countries, pulled from employers’ own career pages and official job feeds and re-checked daily, and we read four things out of every ad: whether it is written in English, whether it demands years of experience, whether it mentions visa sponsorship, and where it is. United Kingdom has the highest share of ads in English at 93 %; Sweden the lowest at 3.0 %. Germany has by far the most listings (18,100), and Germany the highest junior-friendly share (40 %). Click any column to sort, and any country for its industries and cities.

United Kingdom2,1473193 % (1,990)8.9 % (191)106
Ireland2464686 % (212)4.9 % (12)1
Italy284570 % (199)15 % (44)71
Denmark1172067 % (78)22 % (26)16
Portugal2722666 % (179)7.4 % (20)11
Switzerland1641861 % (100)11 % (18)25
Spain6111360 % (369)9.7 % (59)89
Poland4871346 % (226)1.4 % (7)1
France1,9342845 % (867)14 % (269)54
Netherlands7974539 % (314)11 % (89)15
Belgium2261931 % (70)7.1 % (16)10
Hungary1561631 % (48)5.1 % (8)0
Germany18,10021712 % (2,209)40 % (7,220)176
Austria9561044.4 % (42)6.2 % (59)9
Norway9,8261,7554.3 % (422)4.5 % (446)11
Sweden9,3138793.0 % (276)4.3 % (404)0

Share of ads written in English

Listings with the ad in English as a share of all open listings, by country. Workcamino, 24 September 2026.
CountryAd in English
United Kingdom93 %1,990 of 2,147
Ireland86 %212 of 246
Italy70 %199 of 284
Denmark67 %78 of 117
Portugal66 %179 of 272
Switzerland61 %100 of 164
Spain60 %369 of 611
Poland46 %226 of 487
France45 %867 of 1,934
Netherlands39 %314 of 797
Belgium31 %70 of 226
Hungary31 %48 of 156
Germany12 %2,209 of 18,100
Austria4.4 %42 of 956
Norway4.3 %422 of 9,826
Sweden3.0 %276 of 9,313

What this measures, and what it does not

An ad written in English is the most reliable signal that a team works in English, and that a foreigner without the local language can apply. It is not the same as a company being willing to sponsor a visa: for that, the visa column counts ads that say so explicitly, and most employers who would sponsor never mention it. Junior-friendly means no years of experience demanded in the ad; it says nothing about how many people apply. The totals reflect what we track, and we track Germany, Norway and Sweden through their public job feeds and other countries mainly through company career pages, so a small country with a low total is under-counted rather than empty. Compare shares, not totals. The listings-per-million column divides our count by the population on 1 January 2024 and is offered as context, not as a measure of the labour market. Everything is recomputed nightly; this page shows 24 September 2026. How we verify jobs explains the pipeline.

Country pages

Each page breaks the country down by industry and city, with the English share of each:

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