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Dutch Employers That Can Sponsor You, Checked

130 employers, and for 120 of them the sponsorship column is not our opinion: it is a match against the IND own public register of recognised sponsors, carried here with the exact legal entity and KVK number so you can look it up yourself. In the Netherlands only a recognised sponsor can hire a highly skilled migrant, which makes this the one country where that question has a published answer.

120 of 130

matched to the IND register of recognised sponsors

EUR 5,942

gross monthly salary for a kennismigrant aged 30 or over (2026)

EUR 4,357

the same figure if you are under 30

EUR 3,122

reduced rate after a Dutch degree or the orientation year

Verified · Updated August 2026IND: public register of sponsors IND: required amounts IND: highly skilled migrant IND: orientation year

130 employers, the full sheet

Row	Company	Industry	Where	English at work	IND recognised sponsor	Register	Listed as	KVK	Relocation help	Notes
1	Amsterdam UMC	Academic hospital	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Amsterdam UMC Research B.V.	33284074	Unclear	The careers site runs parallel English and Dutch vacancy lists, and PhD and research posts appear on the English one with salary ranges attached.
2	Erasmus MC	Academic hospital	Rotterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Erasmus Medisch Centrum	24485070	Unclear	The English careers site carries separate Jobs, Career in science and PhD programmes sections plus an International Office. Patient-facing clinical roles need Dutch and BIG registration.
3	Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)	Academic hospital	Leiden	Some	Yes	Work	Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC)	27366422	Unclear	The vacancy list is filter-driven and returned no results when checked on 9 August 2026, so set up the job alert rather than judging LUMC by one visit. Dutch academic vacancies are also commonly cross-posted on AcademicTransfer.
4	Radboudumc	Academic hospital	Nijmegen	Some	Yes	Work	Stichting Radboud universitair medisch centrum	80262783	Unclear	The English portal listed five research posts when checked, covering PhD candidates, postdocs and an advisory role, with salary scales and closing dates shown.
5	UMC Utrecht	Academic hospital	Utrecht	Some	Yes	Work	Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht	30244197	Unclear	UMC Utrecht runs a dedicated careers portal with NL and EN versions, plus job alerts and a favourites list you can build before applying.
6	UMCG (University Medical Center Groningen)	Academic hospital	Groningen	Some	Yes	Work	UMCG Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen	01169570	Sometimes	Completes the UMC set alongside MUMC+ and, more importantly, is the single best fix for the empty North. Same clinical versus research caveat applies as for the other five hospitals.
7	Deloitte Nederland	Accountancy and advisory	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Deloitte Accountancy & Advies B.V.	57666954	Unclear	The Dutch recruitment site runs a full English version with live listings, including consulting and technology roles in Amsterdam and Den Haag. Nothing on the vacancy pages addresses visas or relocation.
8	EY Nederland	Accountancy and advisory	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	EY Accountants B.V.	92704093	Unclear	EY Netherlands runs its own job search, which routes to three separate channels: experienced professionals, EY-Parthenon and early careers. The page carries a fraud warning about people posing as EY recruiters.
9	KPMG Nederland	Accountancy and advisory	Amstelveen	Some	Yes	Work	KPMG Staffing & Facility Services B.V.	34153861	Unclear	KPMG Netherlands runs its own recruitment site with an English version. Vacancies can be filtered by candidate profile, work area, location and education level.
10	PwC Nederland	Accountancy and advisory	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	PricewaterhouseCoopers Accountants N.V.	34180285	Unclear	This is PwC Netherlands' own careers section rather than the global PwC careers site. The page blocks automated access, so treat the vacancy list itself as unchecked.
11	Royal Schiphol Group	Airport operations	Schiphol	Rarely	Yes	Work	Royal Schiphol Group N.V.	34029174	Unclear	A major employer the set skips despite listing KLM. Included with a Rarely rating as a deliberate corrective: this is a big name that an international mostly cannot access without Dutch.
12	Nutreco	Animal nutrition and aquafeed	Amersfoort	Yes	Yes	Work	Nutreco Africa B.V.	61481173	Unclear	Amersfoort is the Nutreco head office and also the base of Trouw Nutrition. The careers site runs in English, French and Spanish with no Dutch option at all.
13	Nike European Headquarters	Apparel	Hilversum	Yes	Not found				Sometimes	The set has no consumer-brand EMEA headquarters at all, which is a whole category of large, English-first, international-by-default employers. Nike's European HQ is one of the biggest.
14	PVH Europe (Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein)	Apparel	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	PVH Europe B.V.	57563535	Sometimes	A very large Amsterdam employer that is English-first and hires internationals continuously across design, digital, merchandising and supply chain. Its absence is one of the more surprising gaps in the Amsterdam block.
15	Deltares	Applied research	Delft	Yes	Yes	Work	Stichting Deltares	41146461	Sometimes	Water and subsurface research institute with a strongly international workforce. Sits naturally beside TNO and Wageningen, and water management is the Dutch specialism internationals most often come here to work in.
16	TNO	Applied research	The Hague	Some	Yes	Work	Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO	27376655	Unclear	Vacancies are grouped by expertise area and span health, energy, defence and digital, so filter before applying. Postings seen carried Utrecht, Den Haag and Delft locations.
17	Robeco	Asset management	Rotterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Robeco Nederland B.V.	24143763	Unclear	Robeco runs a two-year Global Investment Traineeship based in Rotterdam, with time spent at international offices during the programme. Vacancies are published on Robeco's own site and applications route through Workday.
18	DAF Trucks	Automotive manufacturing	Eindhoven	Some	Yes	Work	DAF Trucks N.V.	17078445	Sometimes	The set has no automotive or heavy vehicle manufacturing at all. DAF is a cornerstone Brainport employer alongside ASML and Philips.
19	KLM	Aviation	Amstelveen	Some	Yes	Work	Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V.	33014286	Unclear	Office and technology roles at the Amstelveen head office are a different picture from cabin crew and ground roles, many of which are recruited in Dutch. Check the language requirement on each individual vacancy.
20	ABN AMRO	Banking	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	ABN AMRO Asset Based Finance N.V.	30099465	Unclear	The careers site has a full English version showing about 105 open roles. IT is the largest single category at 19 vacancies, so the technology side is the realistic entry point rather than branch work.
21	ING Group	Banking	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	ING Bank N.V.	33031431	Unclear	ING employs about 14,500 people in the Netherlands and runs its head office functions from Amsterdam and Leeuwarden. Tech and Wholesale Banking roles are commonly posted in English; retail and customer contact roles ask for Dutch.
22	Rabobank	Banking	Utrecht	Some	Yes	Work	Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A.	30046259	Unclear	Wholesale and Rural banking serves food and agri clients internationally and posts in English, while the Dutch retail bank and the local member banks expect Dutch.
23	Triodos Bank	Banking	Driebergen-Rijsenburg	Some	Yes	Work	Triodos Bank N.V.	30062415	Unclear	The head office is at Hoofdstraat 10 in Driebergen-Rijsenburg, outside Utrecht rather than in a big city. The careers portal covers the Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Spain and Germany and is available in English, Dutch, Spanish and French.
24	bunq	Banking	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	bunq B.V.	54992060	Unclear	A Dutch-licensed bank that runs its hiring in English, with Amsterdam roles in engineering, product, legal and operations alongside listings in Sofia, Istanbul, Vienna, Bucharest, Prague, Paris, Brussels and New York.
25	Backbase	Banking software	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Backbase B.V.	34192943	Unclear	Amsterdam is the global headquarters, but roles are spread across 17 offices, so check the location line on every posting. Live listings at the time of checking covered Amsterdam, Madrid, Cardiff, Krakow, Mexico City, Hyderabad, Dubai and Ho Chi Minh City.
26	Amgen	Biotechnology	Breda	Some	Yes	Work	Amgen B.V.	20060763	Unclear	Amgen's own description of Breda is labelling, packaging and distribution of its medicines across Europe and a growing number of other countries. Vacancies are handled on the global careers site, not this page.
27	Byondis	Biotechnology	Nijmegen	Some	Yes	Work	Byondis B.V.	54042577	Unclear	R&D laboratories and GMP manufacturing sit on one Nijmegen campus. The vacancy list is short, two open research roles on 9 August 2026, so check it regularly rather than waiting for a match.
28	Genmab	Biotechnology	Utrecht	Yes	Yes	Work	Genmab B.V.	30169902	Unclear	Genmab has absorbed Utrecht neighbour Merus, whose own site now says Merus is part of Genmab, so former Merus roles surface under Genmab.
29	Sanquin	Blood supply and diagnostics	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Sanquin Diagnostiek B.V.	67177476	Unclear	The careers pages are in English but the vacancies themselves are written in Dutch, including the blood bank roles. Research and Diagnostics is the realistic route for an international scientist.
30	HEINEKEN	Brewing	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Heineken Group B.V.	34258660	Unclear	The careers site lists HEINEKEN Head Office and HEINEKEN Netherlands as separate operating companies, and the head office roles are the ones posted for an international audience.
31	Exact	Business software	Delft	Some	Yes	Work	Exact Cloud Development Benelux B.V.	61877107	Unclear	The set has no Dutch-grown enterprise software companies. Exact is among the largest, alongside Unit4, AFAS and TOPdesk.
32	Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI-AVL)	Cancer research institute	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Stichting Het Nederlands Kanker Instituut-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis	40530817	Unclear	NKI states that approximately 55 nationalities work there and that all communication is in English. Clinical roles in the attached Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital still require Dutch and BIG registration.
33	SABIC	Chemicals	Geleen	Some	Yes	Work	SABIC Capital B.V.	14105349	Sometimes	The Chemelot site at Geleen is one of the largest chemical clusters in the country and the set covers it only through Lonza. Strengthens both the thin chemicals block and the thin Limburg block.
34	AkzoNobel	Coatings and paints	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	AKZO Nobel Car Refinishes	28080293	Unclear	Akzo Nobel N.V. and AKZO Nobel Nederland B.V. both appear in the IND public register of recognised sponsors, which means the company can file the highly skilled migrant permit itself.
35	Miro	Collaboration software	Amsterdam	Yes	Not found				Unclear	Miro named Amsterdam its second company headquarters alongside San Francisco, and runs a hub-based hybrid model, so most roles expect regular office attendance. Amsterdam is a live location filter on the jobs board.
36	Accenture Nederland	Consulting and technology	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Accenture B.V.	34156015	Unclear	Netherlands roles are posted through the job search on Accenture's own nl-en careers section. The page is in English and says nothing about visas or relocation.
37	Unilever	Consumer goods	Rotterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Unilever Nederland	24269393	Unclear	The global careers site suggests jobs from other regions by default, so set the location filter to Netherlands before judging what is actually open. I could not confirm any Dutch opening from the default view.
38	Lonza	Contract biologics manufacturing	Geleen	Some	Yes	Work	Lonza Netherlands B.V.	14083599	Unclear	Geleen is a live hiring site with roles across production, QC, QA, MSAT, logistics and mRNA science, all advertised in English.
39	Charles River Laboratories	Contract research	's-Hertogenbosch	Some	Yes	Work	Charles River Laboratories Den Bosch B.V.	16055281	Unclear	Charles River runs a dedicated Netherlands careers page offered in both English and Dutch, which is the right entry point for Dutch roles rather than the global site.
40	NIBC Bank	Corporate banking	The Hague	Some	Yes	Work	NIBC Bank N.V.	27032036	Unclear	A small corporate bank concentrated in The Hague. The vacancy list is short, in the low single digits when checked, and currently weighted to business intelligence and analytics. There is a separate Talent Program route for graduates.
41	FrieslandCampina	Dairy	Amersfoort	Some	Yes	Work	FrieslandCampina Nederland B.V.	01070163	Unclear	Vacancies live on a separate portal at mycareers.frieslandcampina.com rather than on the careers landing page.
42	Databricks	Data and AI platform	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Databricks	51208121	Unclear	Databricks runs an Amsterdam office, but the job board did not render its location list when checked, so the number and type of Dutch roles could not be confirmed. Use the location filter on the board and read the location line, because many EMEA postings are region-wide rather than Dutch.
43	Thales Nederland	Defence electronics	Hengelo	Some	Yes	Work	Thales Nederland	06061578	Unclear	Fills both the empty defence sector and the empty Twente region, where you currently list only the university. Important caveat for the page: defence work involves security screening that restricts many non-EU nationals regardless of sponsorship.
44	Framer	Design and website software	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Framer B.V.	59920637	Unclear	Framer was founded in Amsterdam, but its careers page is remote first and listed no Amsterdam roles at the time of checking. Openings were marked Remote, Austin, or United States, so an Amsterdam desk is not the default outcome of applying.
45	Action	Discount retail	Zwaagdijk-Oost	Some	Yes	Work	Action Service & Distributie	50969838	Unclear	The Netherlands careers site is published in Dutch, English and Polish, which is a fair signal of how much of the workforce is not Dutch-speaking.
46	bol	E-commerce	Utrecht	Some	Yes	Work	Bol Accountants B.V.	16064022	Sometimes	One of the largest Dutch-grown tech employers and a glaring absence next to Picnic and Coolblue. Tech and data roles run in English; commercial and logistics roles are Dutch.
47	Coolblue	E-commerce retail	Rotterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Coolblue B.V.	24330087	Unclear	Head office roles in Rotterdam include English-language tech vacancies, while stores, delivery and customer service recruit in Dutch. Check the language of the individual advert.
48	TenneT	Electricity transmission	Arnhem	Some	Yes	Work	TenneT TSO	09155985	Yes	TenneT's own FAQ says it works with a specialist relocation partner for international colleagues and covers the cost for the employee, partner and children up to 19. The same FAQ warns a visa or work permit can take up to three months, and says Dutch is the working language for many roles while English is enough for some.
49	Prodrive Technologies	Electronics and manufacturing	Eindhoven	Yes	Yes	Work	Prodrive Technologies B.V.	17105739	Sometimes	A large Brainport engineering employer that hires international engineers heavily and is a realistic target for the exact reader this page serves.
50	Eneco	Energy	Rotterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Eneco Diamond Hydrogen B.V.	90411285	Unclear	Eneco runs an English careers site alongside its Dutch one, so the same employer advertises in both languages depending on the role.
51	Shell	Energy	The Hague	Yes	Yes	Work	Shell Asset Management Company B.V.	27075766	Unclear	This page is an entry point rather than a job list; the vacancies sit on a separate Shell job portal. Shell's Dutch operations are based in The Hague.
52	Vattenfall Netherlands	Energy	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Vattenfall N.V.	33292246	Unclear	Dutch vacancies are concentrated in Amsterdam, Arnhem and IJmuiden, and the site can be switched to English.
53	Alliander	Energy grid operator	Arnhem	Rarely	Yes	Work	Alliander N.V.	34108286	Unclear	Grid operators are hiring hard through the energy transition and are absent from the set, which lists only Vattenfall, Eneco and TenneT. Rated Rarely honestly: this is Dutch-language work in practice.
54	Arcadis	Engineering consultancy	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Arcadis Global B.V.	57602255	Unclear	ARCADIS N.V. and ARCADIS Nederland B.V. both appear in the IND public register of recognised sponsors, which covers the main Dutch operating company and not just a subsidiary.
55	Brunel	Engineering secondment and staffing	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Brunel Energy Europe B.V.	34186664	Sometimes	The set has no staffing or secondment firms, which is a real omission: for engineering and technical internationals, secondment firms are one of the most common routes into a first Dutch contract, and several are recognised sponsors in their own right.
56	Euronext	Exchange and market infrastructure	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Euronext Amsterdam N.V.	34138585	Unclear	Euronext's own careers page says it has two main hubs, in Paris and Porto, so the Amsterdam vacancy count is small at any one time even though Amsterdam is one of its markets. There is a VIE international mobility programme aimed at European graduates.
57	Just Eat Takeaway.com	Food delivery platform	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Takeaway.com European Operations B.V.	69769753	Unclear	Dutch roles sit in Amsterdam and Enschede, where the customer service hub is, and the local consumer brand is Thuisbezorgd.nl. Tech and global functions run in English while local commercial and customer-facing roles commonly need Dutch.
58	Kuehne+Nagel Netherlands	Freight forwarding and contract logistics	Veghel	Some	Yes	Work	Kuehne + Nagel Logistics B.V.	16024021	Unclear	The Dutch arm reports around 3,500 staff across 22 locations, with the contact address in Veghel, and the careers site is published in Dutch and English.
59	Fugro	Geo-data services	Leidschendam	Some	Yes	Work	Fugro Innovation & Technology B.V.	34048179	Unclear	Netherlands listings are a mix: the featured Dutch roles included one Dutch-titled vacancy and one English-titled vacancy, so language requirements vary by role.
60	Jumbo	Grocery retail	Veghel	Rarely	Yes	Work	Jumbo Supermarkt	16044409	Unclear	The careers site has an English toggle, but stores, the Veghel distribution centre and the head office all operate in Dutch.
61	Philips	Health technology	Eindhoven	Yes	Yes	Work	Philips Consumer Lifestyle B.V.	17066875	Unclear	The careers site runs in English at the /nl/en path and covers the Netherlands and Belgium together, so set the country filter before judging what is actually open in the Netherlands.
62	Delft University of Technology	Higher education	Delft	Yes	Yes	Work	Technische Universiteit Delft	27364265	Unclear	The official Working at TU Delft page sends all job search to careers.tudelft.nl. Master's teaching is in English, so research posts generally do not require Dutch, though support roles can.
63	Eindhoven University of Technology	Higher education	Eindhoven	Yes	Yes	Work	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven	51278871	Yes	The Working at TU/e section has a dedicated support page for international employees. Teaching is in English, so research roles generally do not require Dutch.
64	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Higher education	Rotterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam	24495550	Yes	Central vacancies are collected on this overview, which showed 10 openings at the time of checking, with filters by work area, job type and faculty. There is a job alert sign-up for new postings that match a profile.
65	Leiden University	Higher education	Leiden	Some	Yes	Work	Universiteit Leiden	27368929	Unclear	The university URL forwards to Leiden's separate careers portal and lands on an English language vacancies filter rather than the full vacancy list, so Dutch only roles will not appear there.
66	Maastricht University	Higher education	Maastricht	Yes	Yes	Work	Universiteit Maastricht	50169181	Yes	Working at UM is a landing page, not the vacancy list; openings sit on a separate portal at vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl. UM runs an International Staff Support Office and links to a Dual Career Services page for accompanying partners.
67	University of Amsterdam	Higher education	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Universiteit van Amsterdam	34370207	Yes	Academic vacancies are posted in English, while support and policy roles are more often Dutch only. The careers site has a dedicated practical information page for international employees.
68	University of Groningen	Higher education	Groningen	Some	Yes	Work	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen	01179037	Unclear	The rug.nl work with us page forwards here. Around 30 openings were listed at the time of checking, ranging from PhD posts to senior management.
69	University of Twente	Higher education	Enschede	Yes	Yes	Work	Universiteit Twente	50130536	Unclear	The utwente.nl careers link forwards to this separate careers domain, which is where applications start. Twente is a technical university with English taught master's programmes, so research roles generally do not need Dutch.
70	Utrecht University	Higher education	Utrecht	Some	Yes	Work	Universiteit Utrecht	30275924	Yes	The jobs page showed 32 openings at the time of checking, and the Working at Utrecht University section links to a page for international staff and guests. A pre-employment screening can form part of the application.
71	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Higher education	Amsterdam	Yes	Not found				Sometimes	You list 9 of the 14 research universities and omit one of the largest. Over 6,150 employees, and it posts vacancies in English.
72	Royal FloraHolland	Horticulture and flower auction	Aalsmeer	Some	Yes	Work	Coöperatie Royal FloraHolland U.A.	34284016	Unclear	Aalsmeer is the main site, with further operations at Naaldwijk and Rijnsburg. Some warehouse listings have appeared in English, so check the individual advert.
73	Capgemini Nederland	IT consulting	Utrecht	Some	Yes	Work	Capgemini Nederland B.V.	30053172	Unclear	The Netherlands careers site is Dutch only, with a vacancies section covering Capgemini, Capgemini Invent, Capgemini Engineering and Sogeti. Expect Dutch to weigh more here than at the global firm.
74	Canon Production Printing	Industrial printing	Venlo	Some	Yes	Work	Canon Production Printing Netherlands B.V.	12002662	Sometimes	The former Oce, a major R&D and manufacturing employer, and one of very few substantial technical employers in northern Limburg. Adds a region the set almost entirely skips.
75	Achmea	Insurance	Zeist	Rarely	Yes	Work	Achmea Interne Diensten N.V.	30124927	Unclear	The careers site is Dutch only, with about 39 vacancies across Zeist, Apeldoorn, Leiden, Leeuwarden and Tilburg. Listings such as Casemanager WIA and Schadebehandelaar Glastuinbouw show how much of the work is Dutch-language, though some data and BI engineering roles appear.
76	NN Group	Insurance	The Hague	Some	Yes	Work	NN Insurance Eurasia N.V.	52403424	Unclear	The careers page splits into a separate Netherlands portal and a global portal, so use the Netherlands one for The Hague and Rotterdam roles.
77	a.s.r. (ASR Nederland)	Insurance	Utrecht	Rarely	Yes	Work	ASR Nederland N.V.	30070695	Unclear	The careers site is Dutch only and covers Utrecht, Enschede and Heerlen. This is also where the former Aegon Nederland insurance jobs now sit, so a search for Dutch Aegon insurance work should start here.
78	International Criminal Court	International court	The Hague	Yes	Outside the scheme				Yes	Completes the international-organisation cluster. English and French working languages, and a genuinely global workforce.
79	Europol	Law enforcement agency	The Hague	Yes	Outside the scheme				Yes	Part of The Hague international-organisation cluster that the set omits entirely. Working language is English. Recruitment is generally limited to EU nationals, which should be stated plainly.
80	Thermo Fisher Scientific	Life sciences instruments	Eindhoven	Some	Yes	Work	Thermo Fisher Scientific B.V.	32059695	Unclear	Eleven Dutch sites and over 2,400 staff, with Eindhoven the largest at over 1,000 people working on electron microscopy.
81	Signify	Lighting	Eindhoven	Yes	Yes	Work	Signify Holding B.V.	17054234	Unclear	The careers site does not surface Dutch locations anywhere on the landing page and the only address in its footer is a United States office, so go straight to the job search location filter.
82	TomTom	Location technology	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	TomTom Global Content B.V.	16079560	Unclear	TomTom is an Amsterdam-registered company with engineering and shared services in the city, but the careers site spreads roles across more than 30 offices in over 20 countries. Vacancies sit behind the job overview page rather than on the careers homepage.
83	Vanderlande	Logistics automation	Veghel	Yes	Yes	Work	Vanderlande Industries B.V.	16017956	Yes	Vanderlande states that English is its official company language, and that it supports people relocating to the Netherlands with obtaining a work or residence permit, finding a home and settling in, including immediate family joining them.
84	Mendix	Low-code software	Rotterdam	Yes	Not found				Sometimes	Adds a genuine product-engineering employer to Rotterdam, which is currently represented mostly by banks, ports, energy and retail.
85	Boskalis	Marine construction and dredging	Papendrecht	Some	Yes	Work	Boskalis Subsea Cables B.V.	24387623	Unclear	The vacancy site has a separate 'Werken bij Boskalis Nederland' filter for Dutch-language roles, distinct from the international listings.
86	European Medicines Agency	Medicines regulation	Amsterdam	Yes	Outside the scheme				Yes	Relocated to Amsterdam and now a significant English-first employer with a large scientific and regulatory workforce. Same member-state nationality caveat as the other EU agencies.
87	Uber	Mobility and delivery platform	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Uber B.V.	56317441	Unclear	Uber's Amsterdam site hosts teams that serve the whole EMEA region, spanning engineering, product, data science and operations.
88	dsm-firmenich	Nutrition and ingredients	Maastricht	Yes	Yes	Work	DSM NL Services B.V.	14028072	Unclear	The careers landing page and the actual vacancy list are separate: openings sit on the portal at jobs.dsm-firmenich.com, reached from the 'View live roles' link.
89	Van Oord	Offshore energy and marine contracting	Rotterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Van Oord Personeels B.V.	11052639	Sometimes	The careers site has a dedicated expat package page for international staff and lists Offshore Energy, including offshore wind construction, as its own career category.
90	Picnic	Online grocery	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Picnic International B.V.	61510084	Yes	Picnic's relocation page says it often covers flights for the employee and direct family and connects new hires with a rental agency, and that a relocation team makes contact after the contract is signed. It also requires new employees to start in their office rather than remotely. Roles here are the Amsterdam tech and office jobs, not warehouse or driver work.
91	Catawiki	Online marketplace	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Catawiki B.V.	01131735	Sometimes	Catawiki states it offers relocation services for colleagues who need to work office based, and describes itself as a team of over 50 nationalities distributed across the world, so an Amsterdam desk is not automatic. Some roles require a specific European language, and several of the live vacancies were customer service jobs based in Portugal rather than the Netherlands.
92	Adyen	Payments	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Adyen N.V.	34259528	Unclear	The careers site runs entirely in English and sorts roles into Tech, Commercial, Product, Operational and Student programs. Amsterdam is the head office, but the vacancy list was showing zero openings when checked, so treat the count as volatile.
93	Mollie	Payments	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Mollie B.V.	30204462	Unclear	Amsterdam is the head office and Maastricht is a second Dutch site. The same board also carries roles in Milan, Paris, Lisbon, Ghent and Munich, so read the location line on each posting.
94	APG	Pensions and asset management	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	APG Asset Management N.V.	58476369	Unclear	APG runs an English careers portal with vacancies filterable by location, and Amsterdam and Heerlen are the two main sites. Investment work sits in Amsterdam while pension administration and customer contact sit in Heerlen and lean Dutch.
95	Johnson & Johnson	Pharmaceuticals	Leiden	Some	Yes	Work	Johnson & Johnson Medical BV	31016334	Unclear	The Netherlands careers page showed 54 openings on 9 August 2026 and features the Leiden site, which now sits under J&J Innovative Medicine.
96	Organon	Pharmaceuticals	Oss	Some	Yes	Work	Organon Pharma B.V.	75977958	Unclear	The Netherlands page is a landing page that hands off to Organon's global job portal, so expect to filter for Dutch roles yourself.
97	Port of Rotterdam Authority (Havenbedrijf Rotterdam)	Ports and logistics	Rotterdam	Rarely	Yes	Work	Havenbedrijf Rotterdam N.V.	24354561	Unclear	The recruitment site and the adverts on it are in Dutch only, with no English version offered, so assume Dutch is required.
98	PostNL	Postal and parcel logistics	The Hague	Rarely	Yes	Work	PostNL Holding B.V.	27168507	Unclear	Recruitment runs in Dutch. The careers pages could not be reached from outside the Netherlands during checking, so start at the main site and follow its Werken bij link.
99	Ecorys Nederland	Research and policy consulting	Rotterdam	Some	Yes	Work	ECORYS Nederland B.V.	24316726	Unclear	Vacancies sit on a separate careers subdomain, not on the main Ecorys site. At the time of checking the English vacancies page showed no live openings and only offered to register your interest for future roles.
100	Ahold Delhaize	Retail	Zaandam	Some	Yes	Work	Ahold Delhaize European Business Services B.V.	61640220	Unclear	The group careers page routes out to brand sites: Dutch store roles go through werk.ah.nl and werk.etos.nl in Dutch, while the international support office roles sit under Ahold Delhaize itself. Any sponsorship applies to the support office side, not to store or distribution work.
101	ASN Bank (formerly de Volksbank)	Retail banking	Utrecht	Rarely	Not found				Unclear	The group behind the SNS, ASN Bank, RegioBank and BLG Wonen retail brands now presents itself as ASN Bank. Careers content and vacancies are Dutch only, so this is a weak fit for someone who does not speak Dutch.
102	Elastic	Search and observability software	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	elasticsearch B.V.	54656230	Unclear	Elastic N.V. is incorporated in Amsterdam but hires as a distributed company across more than 40 countries, and its careers site never names the Netherlands. Filter openings by country before assuming a role is Dutch based.
103	ASM International	Semiconductor equipment	Almere	Yes	Yes	Work	ASM Europe BV	54004004	Unclear	ASM International N.V. appears in the IND public register of recognised sponsors, and the European vacancy filter carries an explicit netherlands-almere location.
104	ASML	Semiconductor equipment	Veldhoven	Yes	Yes	Work	ASML Holding N.V.	17085815	Yes	ASML says it supports relocation for international local hires and their spouse and children, covering immigration, travel, shipping of personal belongings, cultural awareness and language training, and tax advice.
105	BE Semiconductor Industries (Besi)	Semiconductor equipment	Duiven	Some	Yes	Work	Besi Netherlands B.V.	09065977	Sometimes	A listed Dutch semiconductor equipment maker in the same tier of relevance as ASM International, and it puts a pin in Gelderland.
106	NXP Semiconductors	Semiconductors	Eindhoven	Yes	Yes	Work	NXP Semiconductors N.V.	34253298	Unclear	NXP's Dutch sites are Eindhoven and Nijmegen. Worldwide openings are posted to a Workday board reached from the nxp.com site rather than listed on nxp.com itself.
107	Nexperia	Semiconductors	Nijmegen	Yes	Yes	Work	Nexperia B.V.	66264111	Sometimes	Broadens the semiconductor cluster beyond ASML, NXP and ASM International, and adds Nijmegen as a real industrial location rather than only a hospital city.
108	Damen Shipyards Group	Shipbuilding	Gorinchem	Some	Yes	Work	Damen Civil & Modular Constructions B.V.	80687628	Unclear	Damen Shipbuilding & Cooperation B.V. appears in the IND public register of recognised sponsors, so the highly skilled migrant route exists within the group, though it is tied to that entity rather than to every Damen company.
109	A.P. Moller - Maersk	Shipping and logistics	Rotterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Maersk Line Netherlands B.V.	24139123	Unclear	Rotterdam container work sits with APM Terminals Maasvlakte II, a Maersk company, and is posted through the group careers portal rather than under the terminal's own name, so search on Rotterdam and Maasvlakte.
110	Sendcloud	Shipping and logistics software	Eindhoven	Yes	Yes	Work	SendCloud B.V.	66572959	Unclear	The head office is in Eindhoven rather than the Randstad, and the board states a hybrid model of three or more days a week in the office. Other roles sit in Florence, Munich or remote in Croatia, Portugal and Spain, so check the location on each posting.
111	European Space Agency (ESTEC)	Space agency	Noordwijk	Yes	Outside the scheme				Yes	ESTEC is ESA's largest site and one of the most international technical workplaces in the Netherlands. Caveat to publish alongside it: recruitment is generally restricted to member state nationals, so this is a strong lead for EU readers and a dead end for others.
112	Nouryon	Specialty chemicals	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Nouryon Coöperatief U.A.	71189424	Unclear	Nouryon runs a separate Dutch-language careers section at nouryon.com/nl-nl/werken-bij-nouryon/, so check both entry points before concluding nothing is open.
113	Tata Steel Nederland	Steel	IJmuiden	Some	Yes	Work	Tata Steel IJmuiden B.V.	34040331	Sometimes	Roughly 9,000 employees and one of the largest single-site industrial employers in the country. Also adds the North Sea Canal area, which is absent.
114	Bain & Company	Strategy consulting	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Bain & Company Netherlands LLC	33293447	Unclear	Amsterdam appears in Bain's office directory but there is no Dutch careers page, so applications go through the global site.
115	Boston Consulting Group	Strategy consulting	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	The Boston Consulting Group B.V.	31040324	Unclear	The Netherlands page lists Amsterdam openings for Visiting Associate internships, (Senior) Associate and Consultant, plus non-consulting tracks such as data science, technology and finance. Listings are in English.
116	McKinsey & Company	Strategy consulting	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	McKinsey & Company Netherlands	33114342	Unclear	McKinsey recruits for its Amsterdam office through the firm's global careers site rather than a Dutch language portal.
117	Netflix	Streaming	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Netflix International B.V.	62266519	Unclear	The Amsterdam office in Oud-Zuid is Netflix's EMEA headquarters and houses content, legal, finance, global affairs, marketing and talent teams rather than core engineering.
118	Vopak	Tank storage and terminals	Rotterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Vopak Global IT B.V.	24146892	Unclear	Vopak runs careersatvopak.com in English alongside a separate Dutch-language site at werkenbijvopak.nl, which the region selector points to for the Netherlands, so check both.
119	Royal Vopak	Tank storage terminals	Rotterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Koninklijke Vopak N.V.	24295332	Unclear	The careers site runs in English with a separate Dutch section, so check which of the two a vacancy sits in before assuming the working language.
120	KPN	Telecom	Rotterdam	Rarely	Yes	Work	KPN	27124701	Unclear	Fills the empty telecom sector. Included deliberately with a Rarely rating: it is a major employer that mostly is not accessible without Dutch, which the set currently has almost no examples of.
121	VodafoneZiggo	Telecom	Utrecht	Rarely	Yes	Work	VodafoneZiggo Employment B.V.	52444511	Unclear	Second telecom entry, again rated honestly low on English. Large headcount, but a realistic picture of what a non-Dutch speaker can reach there.
122	Da Vinci Trading	Trading	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Da Vinci Derivatives B.V.	63796473	Yes	The careers page offers expats a relocation package and Dutch classes for Amsterdam staff, but says nothing about sponsoring visas. The Amsterdam office is at Hildegard von Bingenstraat 12, with further offices in Hong Kong, Miami and Mumbai.
123	Flow Traders	Trading	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Flow Traders Amsterdam Services B.V.	98525085	Yes	The careers FAQ states Flow Traders is open to providing visa sponsorship to international candidates and their partner or children, and assists with flights, visa applications and accommodation at the start of employment. Sponsorship is not offered for interns.
124	IMC Trading	Trading	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	IMC Trading B.V.	33223419	Unclear	Amsterdam is IMC's global headquarters. The EU benefits page offers language training for expats, but IMC publishes nothing about sponsoring visas or paying relocation costs.
125	Optiver	Trading	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Optiver Holding B.V.	33186961	Unclear	Amsterdam is one of 12 Optiver offices and carries live openings across trading, engineering and operations, for example Software engineer - Real-Time Pricing and Procurement Operations Manager. All listings are in English.
126	Booking.com	Travel technology	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes	Work	Booking.com Holding	57987823	Yes	Amsterdam is the global head office and hiring spans engineering, product, data and commercial functions. The Amsterdam careers page states that Booking.com's Expat Partner Relocation Programme supports the partners of new employees relocating to the Netherlands.
127	Wageningen University & Research	University and life sciences research	Wageningen	Some	Yes	Work	Wageningen Universiteit/ Wageningen University	09215846	Yes	WUR runs a settling-in programme for new international staff: an optional buddy, a dual career programme for partners, introduction activities, and house-hunting help through Welcome Center Food Valley. It does not cover immigration paperwork.
128	Rijk Zwaan	Vegetable seed breeding	De Lier	Yes	Yes	Work	Rijk Zwaan The Netherlands B.V.	64429334	Unclear	The careers site is English by default and De Lier is the head office, with research, production, quality and commercial roles listed there.
129	MSD Animal Health	Veterinary pharmaceuticals	Boxmeer	Some	Not found				Unclear	MSD Animal Health has three Dutch sites, Boxmeer, De Bilt and Oss, employing about 1,400 people in total. MSD calls Boxmeer the world's largest site for veterinary vaccine development and production. Roughly one in eight staff work in R&D and about half in production and quality control.
130	Van Lanschot Kempen	Wealth management	Amsterdam	Some	Yes	Work	Van Lanschot Kempen N.V.	16038212	Unclear	An independent wealth manager of about 2,300 people running private banking, investment management and investment banking, reporting more than 50 nationalities on staff. The careers portal has NL and EN versions.

Scroll the table sideways for the remaining columns. Every name links to that organisation’s own page.

Employers compiled and link-checked August 2026. Sponsorship matched against the IND Work and Research registers as published on 3 August 2026, which the IND updates monthly. These are independent companies and agencies with no relationship to Ankommo. Links change: if you find a dead one, tell us at hello@ankommo.de and we will fix it.

Before you start applying

Check the Register Before You Spend a Month Applying

A Dutch employer cannot hire you as a highly skilled migrant unless the IND has recognised it as a sponsor, and the employer applies for your permit, not you. So the single most useful thing you can do before applying anywhere is look the company up. If it is not recognised, the route does not exist for that job, however well the interview goes, unless the company is willing to get recognised first.

We matched every employer here against the register the IND publishes, and kept the legal entity and KVK number for each match rather than just a tick. That matters because the register lists entities and not brands: Rabobank is in there as Cooeperatieve Rabobank U.A., Elastic as elasticsearch B.V. A name that does not match is not evidence of anything, which is why six rows say Not found rather than No.

Two more things the register cannot tell you. The IND runs separate registers for work and for research, and most Dutch universities sit in the research one, so a university missing from the work list is normal rather than alarming. And the international organisations in The Hague, ESA, the EMA, Europol and the ICC, admit staff under host-state agreements entirely outside this system.

Questions People Actually Ask

What does "IND recognised sponsor" actually mean?

It means the IND has approved that organisation to bring in highly skilled migrants, and it is not optional: a kennismigrant permit can only be granted where the employer is a recognised sponsor. The employer applies, not you. The IND publishes the whole register, roughly ten thousand organisations, and updates it monthly. That is what makes the Netherlands different from almost everywhere else in Europe: the question of whether a company can hire you has a published answer rather than a guess, and this sheet carries the exact legal entity and KVK number behind every match so you can check it yourself.

What salary do I need to be a kennismigrant?

For 2026 the IND requires a gross monthly salary, excluding the 8 percent holiday allowance, of EUR 5,942 if you are 30 or over and EUR 4,357 if you are under 30. There is a reduced figure of EUR 3,122 for people coming off the orientation year or applying within three years of graduating from a Dutch institution, and that reduced rate follows you when you change employer. Clearing the number is necessary but not sufficient: the IND also requires the salary to be in line with the market rate for the job, and takes advice from the UWV on that.

A company I want is marked "Not found". Does that mean it cannot hire me?

No, and this is the one thing worth reading carefully. The register lists legal entities, not brands, so an employer can sit in it under a parent company, a subsidiary or a Dutch name that does not resemble its trading name. Rabobank appears as Cooeperatieve Rabobank U.A., Elastic as elasticsearch B.V., KLM as Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. Six rows here say Not found, which means only that we could not match a name with confidence. Search the register yourself before you draw a conclusion, and if the employer is serious about hiring you they can also apply to become recognised.

Can I come to look for work first?

If you graduated from a Dutch institution or a top-200 university abroad, yes: the orientation year gives you twelve months with completely free access to the labour market, no work permit needed by the employer, and no salary threshold beyond the statutory minimum. It cannot be extended. The payoff comes afterwards, because finding a kennismigrant job during it or within three years of graduating puts you on the reduced salary criterion of EUR 3,122 rather than EUR 4,357 or EUR 5,942, and that follows you between employers. Worth knowing: the orientation year counts as temporary residence, so it does not build towards naturalisation.

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