Jobs in Germany for English speakers

Looking for work in Germany with English and little or no German? Here is what to expect, and what this site can and cannot tell you about a job.

"English-speaking job" means three different things

It is the phrase almost everybody types, and people type it looking for one of three quite different things.

1. An advert written in English. Common, easy to find, and on its own it promises nothing. Plenty of companies advertise in English and run in German.
2. A job where English is the working language. The employer says so, in writing, in the advert.
3. A job where your whole working life happens in English — the interview, the contract, the team's chat, the HR system, the Christmas party.

This site can help you with the first two. Nothing can promise you the third, and any job board that implies it is guessing on your behalf.

Why you will never see a listing here called "English-speaking"

We read the advert. We do not know the job.

Calling a listing English-speaking would be a claim about the work itself — about what happens in a building we have never been in. What we can honestly pass on is what the employer chose to write down, so every listing here carries a label about the advert, never about the job.^[1] How we label German explains each one and what it does not promise.

That is also why this page is titled the way it is. It is about the people reading it — English speakers looking for work in Germany — and not a promise about any particular vacancy.

Where to start, strongest first

English is the working language — the employer has answered the question themselves, in the advert. This is the strongest thing this site can show you, and it is the smallest of the three lists.^[1][2]

No German asked for — the advert is in English and never asks for German, but never says which language the work happens in either. Silence is not a promise, and it is most of the site.^[2]

English works, German helps — English is named as the working language and German as an advantage.^[1] You can apply without it; the employer mentioned it for a reason.

By place, see the city sections below, or remote. By role: software engineer, product manager, consultant, account executive and sales, supply chain and procurement.

"English-speaking jobs" city by city — what the adverts say

The same question, one city at a time. Each section below is counted from tonight's listings, by the same rules as every label on this site, and recounted every night.^[2] It tells you what the adverts in that city say about German — never what the jobs are like inside.^[1]

Jobs in Berlin for English speakers

1,390 adverts in Berlin are on the site tonight, all written in English. 1,153 adverts don't ask for German; 206 name German as an advantage; 31 say English is the working language. The biggest kinds of work: Engineering & IT (660), Product & Design (152) and Sales & Business Development (105).

All Berlin listings · only those that don't ask for German

Jobs in Munich for English speakers

949 adverts in Munich are on the site tonight, all written in English. 711 adverts don't ask for German; 233 name German as an advantage; 5 say English is the working language. The biggest kinds of work: Engineering & IT (539), Operations & Logistics (112) and Sales & Business Development (65).

All Munich listings · only those that don't ask for German

Jobs in Hamburg for English speakers

192 adverts in Hamburg are on the site tonight, all written in English. 162 adverts don't ask for German; 20 name German as an advantage; 10 say English is the working language. The biggest kinds of work: Engineering & IT (81), Sales & Business Development (17) and Data & Analytics (16).

All Hamburg listings · only those that don't ask for German

Jobs in Düsseldorf for English speakers

107 adverts in Düsseldorf are on the site tonight, all written in English. 84 adverts don't ask for German; 22 name German as an advantage; 1 says English is the working language. The biggest kinds of work: Engineering & IT (29), Operations & Logistics (24) and Data & Analytics (13).

All Düsseldorf listings · only those that don't ask for German

Jobs in Cologne for English speakers

87 adverts in Cologne are on the site tonight, all written in English. 62 adverts don't ask for German; 25 name German as an advantage. The biggest kinds of work: Engineering & IT (33), Finance & Legal (15) and Warehouse & Field (5).

All Cologne listings · only those that don't ask for German

Jobs in Frankfurt for English speakers

79 adverts in Frankfurt are on the site tonight, all written in English. 63 adverts don't ask for German; 16 name German as an advantage. The biggest kinds of work: Engineering & IT (20), Sales & Business Development (8) and Operations & Logistics (7).

All Frankfurt listings · only those that don't ask for German

Jobs in Stuttgart for English speakers

55 adverts in Stuttgart are on the site tonight, all written in English. 43 adverts don't ask for German; 11 name German as an advantage; 1 says English is the working language. The biggest kinds of work: Engineering & IT (28), Operations & Logistics (8) and Sales & Business Development (4).

All Stuttgart listings · only those that don't ask for German

Jobs in Leipzig for English speakers

18 adverts in Leipzig are on the site tonight, all written in English. 15 adverts don't ask for German; 3 name German as an advantage. The biggest kinds of work: Engineering & IT (6), Marketing & Communications (4) and Operations & Logistics (2).

All Leipzig listings · only those that don't ask for German

Jobs in Karlsruhe for English speakers

22 adverts in Karlsruhe are on the site tonight, all written in English. 16 adverts don't ask for German; 5 name German as an advantage; 1 says English is the working language. The biggest kinds of work: Engineering & IT (13), Product & Design (3) and Sales & Business Development (2).

All Karlsruhe listings · only those that don't ask for German

Jobs in Wiesbaden for English speakers

3 adverts in Wiesbaden are on the site tonight, all written in English. The biggest kinds of work: Engineering & IT (2) and Science & Healthcare (1).

All Wiesbaden listings · only those that don't ask for German

Jobs in Regensburg for English speakers

5 adverts in Regensburg are on the site tonight, all written in English. 3 adverts don't ask for German; 2 name German as an advantage. Filed under: Engineering & IT (5).

All Regensburg listings · only those that don't ask for German

Jobs in Vienna for English speakers

102 adverts in Vienna are on the site tonight, all written in English. 86 adverts don't ask for German; 16 name German as an advantage. The biggest kinds of work: Engineering & IT (39), Operations & Logistics (13) and Product & Design (13).

All Vienna listings · only those that don't ask for German

Jobs in Zurich for English speakers

272 adverts in Zurich are on the site tonight, all written in English. 243 adverts don't ask for German; 29 name German as an advantage. The biggest kinds of work: Engineering & IT (159), Sales & Business Development (24) and Operations & Logistics (18).

All Zurich listings · only those that don't ask for German

Which industries actually hire in English

The short version: software, startups, research, logistics at the big international employers, and anything with a head office outside Germany. The long version, with the cities and the company types, is in where the jobs are.

Four questions worth asking before you accept

An advert is the beginning of the conversation, not the end of it. Every one of these is a fair thing to ask a recruiter, and the answers vary enormously between two companies on the same street.

1. What language are the interviews in? Including the ones later in the process, with people outside the hiring team.
2. What language is the employment contract in? No rule says it must be in German, and a German contract is not a red flag — but you should know before it arrives, and it is fair to ask for it to be explained.^[3]
3. What language does the team actually write in day to day? Not the official policy. The tickets, the chat, the documents.
4. What language do HR, payroll and the internal systems run in? This is the one people forget, and it is the one that follows you for years.

More on the application itself — CVs, cover letters, what a German interview is like — in applying in Germany.

What English will not be enough for

A job in English does not make the rest of the country English, and it is kinder to say so plainly.

The Anmeldung, the tax office, health insurance, most landlords, most doctors' receptionists, and a good deal of officialdom will be in German.^[4] Some of it has English forms; much of it does not. People manage this every day, with translation apps, patient friends and a phrasebook — but they manage it, they do not avoid it. After you arrive walks through the first few weeks, and visas and work permits covers the paperwork that comes before them.

If a listing here asks for German

That is a mistake, and we want to know about it. Every listing links out to the employer's own advert, so you can always check the original — and the excerpt here is a fragment, so read the full advert before you apply.^[1]

Tell us at info@jobswithoutgerman.de, or use the report a listing page.

Auf Deutsch

Wenn Sie lieber auf Deutsch lesen: Jobs in Deutschland ohne Deutschkenntnisse erklärt dieselbe Seite in einer Seite — was hier steht, woher es kommt und was die drei Kennzeichnungen bedeuten.