Where skilled workers want to go in 2026

Live figures from the Workuro register, counted 01 October 2026 at 21:39 UTC. Free to quote with a link to this page (CC BY 4.0).

Where they come from

Active profiles by country of origin. A profile is one person who created it themselves and confirmed their email; there is no scraping and no bought data.

Where they want to work in Europe

Countries named by workers as where they would go. One person can name several, so these add up to more than the number of profiles.

What they do

Professions grouped into trade families so that a TIG welder and a pipe welder count together.

Sign-ups per week

Method

Every number on this page is a count of active profiles in the Workuro register at the time shown at the top. Country of origin and target countries are as the worker typed them, mapped to ISO codes; free text that could not be mapped is left out rather than guessed. Trade families are keyword groups over the profession field. The register is free for workers; employers search it and pay only to open a profile. No figure here is a projection, a survey answer or an industry estimate.

Press and researchers: quote freely with a link. For a CSV of the current counts or a comment, write to hello@workuro.com.

The other side of the same question, who is hiring, is counted monthly from the public job registers: the demand reports.