Every advert on this site is in English and none of them requires German. Some still say German would help. This page counts how often that happens, place by place.
Across the whole site
Of 3,889 adverts listed tonight, 651 (16.7%) name German as an advantage. The other 83.3% do not ask for German at all — and 56 of those go further and say English is the working language.
| Country | German helps |
|---|---|
| Germany | 596 of 3,430 (17.4%) |
| Austria | 18 of 120 (15.0%) |
| Switzerland | 37 of 339 (10.9%) |
City by city
Every place with 20 listings or more, highest share first. Below 20, a single advert moves the figure by five points or more, so a percentage there would be noise.
| Place | German helps |
|---|---|
| Cologne | 25 of 87 (28.7%) mostly one employer |
| Munich | 233 of 949 (24.6%) |
| Karlsruhe | 5 of 22 (22.7%) mostly one employer |
| Düsseldorf | 22 of 107 (20.6%) |
| Frankfurt | 16 of 79 (20.3%) |
| Stuttgart | 11 of 55 (20.0%) mostly one employer |
| Basel | 6 of 31 (19.4%) mostly one employer |
| Aachen | 5 of 30 (16.7%) mostly one employer |
| Vienna | 16 of 102 (15.7%) |
| Berlin | 206 of 1,390 (14.8%) |
| Zurich | 29 of 272 (10.7%) |
| Hamburg | 20 of 192 (10.4%) |
| Augsburg | 4 of 49 (8.2%) mostly one employer |
| Remote (Germany) | 15 of 291 (5.2%) |
| Darmstadt | 1 of 30 (3.3%) |
| Zug | 0 of 21 (0.0%) |
"Mostly one employer" means more than half of that place's "German helps" adverts come from a single company. The figure then says more about how that company writes its adverts than about the city. Where it appears, read the number with that in mind.
35 smaller places with fewer than 20 listings are left out of the table but not off the site — they are all on the full list of places, and every listing carries its label.
What this page does not tell you
- How many adverts require German. An advert that asks for German as a requirement, at any level, is never listed here, so we cannot count it on this page. In every one of these cities, most jobs are advertised in German and never reach this site at all.
- How much German the job really needs. We read the advert, not the job. "German is a plus" in an advert may matter more or less once you are in the team. The labels page explains how the three labels are decided.
- Why a city is high or low. A city's figure depends on which employers advertise there in English. A few large employers can move it a long way, which is why the flag above exists.
How it is counted
The same list as every other page, after the same screens, rebuilt every night. Each advert carries one of three labels, read from its own text: English is the working language, no German asked for, or English works and German helps. This page counts the third. The same labels are shown on every listing and on each city page. The whole list is counted on the numbers, and kept month by month on the job market, month by month.
You are welcome to quote these figures or link to this page. Please give the date they were counted — 16 October 2026 — because they change every night.