Thinking about moving to the Netherlands 🇳🇱 for work? Here are some helpful resources to get you started:
✅ Destination Research
To relocate wisely, start by doing some research.
🪪 Visa options | Official site
🧾 Taxes
🧾 30% ruling | More details
💶 Take-home pay calculator
🛒 Cost of living
🏥 Healthcare + insurance options
📊 Average salary
💻💰 Developer salaries in the Netherlands | TechPays
❓ Ask questions about the Netherlands: Reddit /r/Netherlands | Reddit /r/NetherlandsHousing
✅ Job Search (Companies Hiring from Outside the Netherlands)
If you’re looking to relocate for a tech job, you’re in luck—many companies in the Netherlands actively hire international talent and offer visa/relocation support.
For example:
- Picnic Technologies
- Catawiki
- Swisscom DevOps Center Rotterdam
- GreenFlux
- WAES
- Flow Traders
- Guerrilla
- Inverid
- Stream
- Adyen
- ASML
📌 List of employers recognized as visa sponsors
✅ Job Search (Local Job Boards)
Here are some local websites to explore job opportunities:
- Nationale Vacaturebank – One of the largest national job boards
- Werkzoeken – Vacancies across industries
- IamExpat Jobs – English-speaking jobs for expats
- Brainport Eindhoven – Tech & IT jobs in the Eindhoven region
- Indeed NL and Monsterboard
I’m continuing my new initiative, The Global Move 🌍, for those seeking to move abroad for work in tech.
A newsletter & community on Substack, it offers:
✅ Actionable advice on tech job relocation (resumes, interviews, job search tactics, etc.)
✅ A weekly handpicked list of 100+ tech jobs with visa/relocation support
✅ Live Q&A sessions with me, recruiters, and hiring managers
It’s still new, but we’re already over 1,600 people strong 💪 (and growing every day!).
Top comments (1)
Werken in Nederland is echt top, maar na een lange dag coderen en al die uren staren naar Visual Studio, moet je gewoon even je hoofd leegmaken. Ik merkte dat ik vaak te lang doorging tot laat in de avond. Toen ben ik na het werk wat gaan ontspannen op evospin en dat werkt voor mij verrassend goed om even de focus te verzetten. Gewoon lekker laagdrempelig en zonder gedoe. Zorg er wel voor dat je een gezonde balans houdt tussen al dat harde dev-werk en je ontspanning, want de werkdruk kan hier soms stiekem flink oplopen!