Luxembourg Job Market Report 2026

1. 8,107 open positions from 1,547 direct employers and 178 recruitment agencies.
2. 44.7 % mention German or Luxembourgish or are advertised in German. That is 3,621 positions.
3. In the east of the country, every second ad is in German (50.8 %). In the south, 70.7 % of ads are in French.
4. Finance is the largest field with 1,301 open positions. 68.6 % of these ads are in English, yet 41.0 % mention German.
5. In care and health, 76.9 % of the 503 open positions mention German, more than in any other field.
6. 867 open positions (10.7 %) have been advertised in at least three separate waves since 2020. For fund accountants, this applies to one position in four.
7. Recruitment agencies publish 18.9 % of positions. In finance and in skilled trades and engineering it is one in four, in care and health 2.6 %.
8. Only 5.4 % of ads by direct employers give a figure in the salary field. Among recruitment agencies it is 25.0 %.

49.7 % of ads are written in French, 39.3 % in English and 10.9 % in German. In finance, 68.6 % of ads are in English, in IT 55.6 %.

Of the 3,621 positions that mention German, only 24.5 % are advertised in German. Anyone who reads only German ads sees just one in four of the jobs where German counts. 2,734 ads in French or English mention German or Luxembourgish.

In the eastern cantons of Grevenmacher, Echternach and Remich, 50.8 % of the 311 open positions are advertised in German, and 77.8 % mention German. In the north, 79.8 % of the 332 positions mention German. In the canton of Esch in the south, 70.7 % of the 809 positions are written in French. Around the capital, almost every second ad is in English (46.0 %).

Finance is the largest field with 1,301 open positions, 16.0 % of the market. It is followed by IT with 855 and technical roles with 606 positions. Electrical, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), mechanical, construction and technical roles together account for 1,528 positions (18.8 %). 31.7 % of positions cannot be assigned to one field, such as project managers or business analysts.

Care and health is the field where German counts most often. 76.9 % of its 503 open positions mention German or Luxembourgish. Almost all come from direct employers such as Stëftung Hëllef Doheem and Hôpitaux Robert Schuman. In finance, 41.0 % of positions mention German, although only 3.8 % of the ads are written in German. As in skilled trades and engineering, recruitment agencies publish about one finance position in four.

An advertising wave covers all ads for a position without a break of more than 45 days. 867 open positions are in at least their third wave since 2020. Fund accountants are hit hardest in relative terms, with 26 % of their open positions, followed by cooks with 21 % and care assistants with 17 %.

9.1 % of all ads give a figure in the job board’s salary field. Among direct employers it is 5.4 %, among recruitment agencies 25.0 % and among ads in German 2.0 %.

EU Directive 2023/970 on pay transparency requires that applicants learn the pay range before the job interview at the latest. The transposition deadline ended on 7 June 2026. As of 8 November 2026, Luxembourg had not yet transposed the directive into national law.

The most distinct open job titles come from Amazon (99), EY (75), Stëftung Hëllef Doheem (73), Losch (66) and CACEIS (63), followed by Merbag (55), Hôpitaux Robert Schuman (53) and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (52). The market remains fragmented. Every second direct employer has exactly one open position.

On LinkedIn, the source with the most consistent coverage, 29,208 new positions appeared from January to October 2026, 2.4 % more than in the same period last year. Finance roles fell by 11.6 %. Skilled trades and engineering grew by 21.7 %, probably in part because more companies now advertise on LinkedIn. Ads in French rose by 17.1 %.

The analysis covers 8,107 positions based in Luxembourg that were advertised on public job boards and career pages between 9 October and 8 November 2026. Sources are LinkedIn, Careerjet, EURES with the vacancies of ADEM, HelloWork, XING and career pages on systems such as Personio, SmartRecruiters, Teamtailor and Workday. The data supplier is Techmap. Jobs that luxsearch® knows only from its own monitoring of selected companies are left out, so every employer is covered the same way. The trend is based on 150,387 positions first published between November 2023 and October 2026.

Duplicates across job boards and reposts of the same ad were removed. A position is one employer with one job title in one place. Field and language come from the title and the ad text. “Mentions German” means the ad is written in German or mentions German or Luxembourgish, as a requirement or as an asset. Recruitment agencies were identified by company name and by phrases such as “for our client”.

• Small employers who advertise only on Moovijob, jobs.lu, Indeed or with the German Federal Employment Agency are underrepresented.
• Ads in Luxembourgish and jobs without a public ad are missing.
• Name variants of the same employer can raise the number of positions by up to 5 %.
• Salaries that appear only in the ad text are not counted.
• Ads that give only “Luxembourg” as location count towards the Centre region.
• The total number of new positions is not suitable for comparisons over several years, because job boards such as Careerjet and Monster dropped out of the data feed over time.

luxsearch® is a recruitment agency for Luxembourg in engineering, skilled trades, construction, IT and finance. Journalists can request the tables by region, field and language from Vincent Lüders at vincent@luxsearch.eu. If you use the figures, please name luxsearch® as the source and link to this page.