The technology job market: Netherlands

Where opportunities appear

Locations follow the advert text. Market sample, physical location and remote eligibility can differ.

• Amsterdam166
• Utrecht109
• The Hague45
• Rotterdam45
• The Randstad28
• Eindhoven25
• Amsterdam Area17
• Netherlands17
• Amersfoort15
• Delft15
• Apeldoorn15
• Groningen14
• Arnhem14
• Gouda11
• Haarlem11
• Capelle aan den IJssel10
• ’s-Hertogenbosch9
• Leiden9
• Amstelveen9
• Almere9

Work policy

• Hybrid504 55.4%
• On-site272 29.9%
• Not specified99 10.9%
• Remote34 3.7%

Conflicting work-policy evidence accounts for 36 of the unspecified postings.

Where remote work is allowed

Remote within the country · 2 (0.4%)

These postings name a single eligible country. The breakdown below shows the places stated in the adverts.

Shares are among remote and hybrid postings. A posting can name several places. Hybrid roles can also require office attendance.

• Eligibility unstated533 99.1%
• Netherlands2 0.4%
• Other stated geographic limits2 0.4%
• Europe1 0.2%

A skill means more in context

Selected technologies, with supporting text. A mention is not automatically a requirement. Programming, data work and supporting scripts are counted separately; one advert can mention several skills.

• Azure311 · 34.2%

  Required

  33

  Preferred

  14

  Alternative

  35

  Incidental mention

  17

  Unclassified mention

  212

  Building software

  20

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  31

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering96 Data & AI46 Cloud & infrastructure135 Cybersecurity9 IT support11 Business applications4 Industrial & embedded2 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects7 Other roles1 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Python213 · 23.4%

  Required

  30

  Preferred

  14

  Alternative

  48

  Incidental mention

  7

  Unclassified mention

  114

  Building software

  55

  Supporting scripts

  75

  Data / ML

  16

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering64 Data & AI47 Cloud & infrastructure84 Cybersecurity3 IT support7 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded3 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects3 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Kubernetes179 · 19.7%

  Required

  27

  Preferred

  16

  Alternative

  13

  Incidental mention

  7

  Unclassified mention

  116

  Building software

  6

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering57 Data & AI5 Cloud & infrastructure107 Cybersecurity4 IT support4 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles2 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• SQL136 · 15.0%

  Required

  27

  Preferred

  2

  Alternative

  4

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  100

  Building software

  12

  Supporting scripts

  3

  Data / ML

  18

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering55 Data & AI46 Cloud & infrastructure14 Cybersecurity1 IT support12 Business applications3 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles2 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• AWS133 · 14.6%

  Required

  13

  Preferred

  11

  Alternative

  41

  Incidental mention

  6

  Unclassified mention

  62

  Building software

  12

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  6

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering50 Data & AI12 Cloud & infrastructure58 Cybersecurity4 IT support5 Business applications2 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Terraform125 · 13.8%

  Required

  12

  Preferred

  9

  Alternative

  18

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  83

  Building software

  4

  Supporting scripts

  3

  Data / ML

  3

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering14 Data & AI9 Cloud & infrastructure99 Cybersecurity3 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Docker119 · 13.1%

  Required

  11

  Preferred

  14

  Alternative

  9

  Incidental mention

  5

  Unclassified mention

  80

  Building software

  2

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering60 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure49 Cybersecurity2 IT support5 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Linux119 · 13.1%

  Required

  21

  Preferred

  5

  Alternative

  8

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  82

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering14 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure80 Cybersecurity4 IT support16 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded2 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• C#113 · 12.4%

  Required

  18

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  10

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  79

  Building software

  55

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  1

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering97 Data & AI7 Cloud & infrastructure5 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded2 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• .NET108 · 11.9%

  Required

  18

  Preferred

  4

  Alternative

  7

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  76

  Building software

  54

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering93 Data & AI5 Cloud & infrastructure7 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications2 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• PowerShell99 · 10.9%

  Required

  14

  Preferred

  5

  Alternative

  16

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  63

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  78

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering3 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure80 Cybersecurity4 IT support11 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• TypeScript67 · 7.4%

  Required

  12

  Preferred

  4

  Alternative

  11

  Incidental mention

  6

  Unclassified mention

  34

  Building software

  27

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering59 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure6 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Java65 · 7.2%

  Required

  8

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  20

  Incidental mention

  7

  Unclassified mention

  30

  Building software

  33

  Supporting scripts

  2

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering46 Data & AI4 Cloud & infrastructure11 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• GCP63 · 6.9%

  Required

  2

  Preferred

  6

  Alternative

  31

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  24

  Building software

  3

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  4

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering24 Data & AI9 Cloud & infrastructure27 Cybersecurity1 IT support1 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Bash62 · 6.8%

  Required

  5

  Preferred

  4

  Alternative

  11

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  42

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  58

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering2 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure53 Cybersecurity1 IT support6 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• React47 · 5.2%

  Required

  5

  Preferred

  6

  Alternative

  6

  Incidental mention

  8

  Unclassified mention

  22

  Building software

  19

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering44 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure3 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• LLM44 · 4.8%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  5

  Alternative

  8

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  27

  Building software

  4

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  31

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering14 Data & AI16 Cloud & infrastructure10 Cybersecurity1 IT support0 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles1 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Go34 · 3.7%

  Required

  2

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  15

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  13

  Building software

  18

  Supporting scripts

  6

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering20 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure13 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Machine learning34 · 3.7%

  Required

  4

  Preferred

  9

  Alternative

  5

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  16

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  22

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering9 Data & AI17 Cloud & infrastructure7 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• JavaScript30 · 3.3%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  8

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  20

  Building software

  9

  Supporting scripts

  4

  Data / ML

  1

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering22 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure2 Cybersecurity0 IT support3 Business applications2 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Angular29 · 3.2%

  Required

  3

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  2

  Incidental mention

  6

  Unclassified mention

  15

  Building software

  7

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering26 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure2 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• GitHub Copilot27 · 3.0%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  5

  Incidental mention

  2

  Unclassified mention

  19

  Building software

  13

  Supporting scripts

  7

  Data / ML

  1

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering15 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure9 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• C++25 · 2.8%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  6

  Alternative

  14

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  4

  Building software

  15

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering19 Data & AI2 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded4 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• SAP22 · 2.4%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  4

  Incidental mention

  5

  Unclassified mention

  10

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  3

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering5 Data & AI9 Cloud & infrastructure1 Cybersecurity1 IT support0 Business applications2 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects3 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Claude Code21 · 2.3%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  5

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  15

  Building software

  13

  Supporting scripts

  6

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering10 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure10 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• PHP21 · 2.3%

  Required

  5

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  1

  Incidental mention

  2

  Unclassified mention

  13

  Building software

  8

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering17 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure3 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Cursor13 · 1.4%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  4

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  9

  Building software

  6

  Supporting scripts

  6

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering6 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure7 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Node.js11 · 1.2%

  Required

  6

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  2

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  3

  Building software

  4

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering11 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• C10 · 1.1%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  6

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  1

  Building software

  7

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering6 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded3 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Rust10 · 1.1%

  Required

  2

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  6

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  1

  Building software

  5

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering8 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Salesforce7 · 0.8%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  1

  Incidental mention

  2

  Unclassified mention

  3

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering4 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications2 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Codex3 · 0.3%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  2

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  0

  Building software

  3

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering3 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Ruby3 · 0.3%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  2

  Unclassified mention

  1

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering1 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure2 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• PLC1 · 0.1%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  0

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering0 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• SCADA1 · 0.1%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  1

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  0

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering0 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

Beyond a single language

No explicit signal

777

Accepts named alternatives

108

Open to learning or switching

24

Adverts mentioning AI-assisted engineering

77

These are separate signals. A list of languages does not establish language agnosticism, and these observations cannot show that AI caused a change.

Most requested skills by role

Country sample · Netherlands. Open a role family to see its most requested skills.

• Cloud & infrastructure Adverts (288)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  Kubernetes	16	5.6%
  Linux	16	5.6%
  PowerShell	14	4.9%
  Azure	13	4.5%
  Terraform	10	3.5%
  Python	8	2.8%
  AWS	7	2.4%
  Bash	5	1.7%
  Docker	5	1.7%
  SQL	4	1.4%

• Software engineering Adverts (267)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  .NET	18	6.7%
  C#	18	6.7%
  Azure	14	5.2%
  Python	14	5.2%
  TypeScript	11	4.1%
  Kubernetes	10	3.7%
  Java	7	2.6%
  SQL	7	2.6%
  Docker	6	2.2%
  Node.js	6	2.2%

• IT support Adverts (107)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  AWS	1	0.9%
  Linux	1	0.9%
  SQL	1	0.9%

• Data & AI Adverts (85)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  SQL	13	15.3%
  Python	8	9.4%
  Azure	6	7.1%
  Machine learning	4	4.7%
  AWS	2	2.4%
  Kubernetes	1	1.2%
  LLM	1	1.2%
  PHP	1	1.2%
  Terraform	1	1.2%

• IT leadership & projects Adverts (62)

  No skills were explicitly required in this role family.

• Business applications Adverts (38)

  No skills were explicitly required in this role family.

• Cybersecurity Adverts (23)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  AWS	1	4.3%
  Linux	1	4.3%
  SQL	1	4.3%

• Product & design Adverts (13)

  No skills were explicitly required in this role family.

• Industrial & embedded Adverts (12)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  C++	1	8.3%
  Linux	1	8.3%

• Other roles Adverts (12)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  SQL	1	8.3%

Maximum advertised pay by experience

The curves use the upper amount of each stated pay range. Annual amounts and monthly amounts projected over 12 payments are combined across all pay types in one graph. Currency / period: EUR.

The data behind the figures · Netherlands

Collection and analysis counts update during the day. They refer to current source data and may differ from the published sample.

Collected adverts

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Analyzed adverts

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In current publication

909

Awaiting analysis

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Requiring review

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Being analyzed now

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Coverage by country

Country samples can overlap; adding their counts does not give a distinct all-country total.

Analysis progress · all markets

Analysis progress is temporarily unavailable

Progress updates during the day. The market tabs show the latest published statistics.

In current publication

Market charts use the latest completed publication. Its sample and data cutoff remain stable until the next publication.

Published statistics cover 20,712 of 20,729 collected adverts across all markets. Remaining adverts await analysis or review.

Complete observation days: 2 · Partial observation days: 0

Analysis version: codex-observatory-4:gpt-6.1-terra:high

Statistics refresh daily at 03:00 Europe/Rome