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!).
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