Joost van Heusden Advisory

Benelux Data & AI Hiring Pulse

Mid-September 2026 — Free Edition

A data-driven look at who’s hiring, what tools they need, and where the Benelux data & AI market is heading.

Preview of the Benelux Data & AI Hiring Pulse report

1,523 job postings analyzed across Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg

  • 12 vendor categories (Cloud, Data Platform, AI/LLM, BI, ...)
  • Role distribution, seniority, work arrangement trends
  • Key insight: Azure leads at 39%, Databricks dominates data platforms

No spam. Just data insights.

What’s Inside

Cloud Platform

Azure 39%

AWS 19% · GCP 15%

AI Dev Tools

GitHub Copilot leads

3.3% of postings name it explicitly

Market Structure

28% Data Engineers

40% hybrid work arrangement