How many jobs in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland don't ask for German?

That is the whole question this site exists to answer, and the honest version of the answer is a number with a boundary around it. What follows is everything we can count, and a plain account of what it does not cover.

Today

Advertised by 470 employers, across 51 places including remote. We have been counting since 29 Aug 2026.

Where the work is

A city appears here only if somebody is advertising in it today, so this list is shorter than the list of cities we watch — and it changes nightly.

How often the adverts in each place name German as an advantage is on German as an advantage, city by city.

What kind of work

Other is not a category. It is where a listing goes when neither the team name the board sent nor the job title says what kind of work it is — we would rather say we could not tell than guess.

Contracts other than a plain full-time job

Read from the advert's own title, which is the only place a contract kind is written down. There is no "full time" line: almost no advert says it, so a count would be a count of who bothered to type it.

Who is advertising

470 employers have at least one listing here today, and 334 of them have enough for a page of their own. The ten largest:

The third column counts the adverts labelled English is the working language or No German asked for. It describes the adverts these employers wrote, not the companies — the table is ordered by how many listings each one has, and never by that share.

Where the listings come from

Every listing is read from the recruiting software the employer publishes their own vacancies through — the same public address their careers page uses. Nothing is taken from a job board.

What these numbers are not

This is the part that decides whether the rest is worth quoting.

• It is not the German labour market. It is 470 employers we follow, all of whom publish their vacancies in a form that can be read with permission. There are hundreds of thousands of jobs in these three countries; almost all of them are advertised in German and none of those reach this site.
• It is not "jobs for English speakers in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland". It is adverts written in English whose text does not ask for German. A job can still turn out to need German in the room even when the advert never said so — that is the limit of reading adverts, and it is why the labels describe the advert and never the job.
• The employers here are not a random sample. Companies that publish through international recruiting software are disproportionately the ones hiring internationally, which is exactly why we can read them. The mix of industries above follows from that, and not from anything about Germany.
• "First seen" is not "posted". When an employer is added, everything they currently have open arrives at once and is new here, not new in the world. That is why there is no chart of postings per day on this page: the biggest spikes would be the days we added employers.

How it is counted

Once a night, every employer's board is read, every advert is put through the language screen described on the labels page, and the pages you are reading are rebuilt from scratch. A listing that stops appearing on its employer's board is retired after fourteen days. Repeated postings of the same role by the same employer in the same city are counted once. Talent pools, speculative-application forms and adverts announcing that they are closed are not counted at all.

The screens in that paragraph are counted, one by one and every night, on how this list is made — including how many adverts each of them left off last night. More about how and why on the about page, and the employer side of it on for employers.

Using these figures

These figures are tonight's. The same count, kept month by month and compared with the month before, is on the job market, month by month.

You are welcome to quote them or link to this page. Please give the date they were counted — 16 October 2026 for the ones above — because every one of them will have changed by next week. If you want a figure this page does not show, ask: info@jobswithoutgerman.de.