The Berlin job market,
measured.

Berlin's own desks, counted from our tracking bank as a conservative floor. These counts are taken once a night, not to the second, and the note under the table says exactly what is in them and what is not. No marketing math, no rounding up.

Which fields in Berlin are actually open in English?

"Tech is fine in English, the rest needs German" is the folk wisdom. Here is what our bank says about Berlin, field by field : how many roles are live, how many the listing itself opens to English speakers, and how long the ones in that field usually take to close.

We track 36,936 live Berlin roles in total ; this table reads the ones carrying a full job description, the only kind whose language and field we can verify.

This table describes BERLIN's own desks : roles located in Berlin, full stop. Remote roles are left out of these counts entirely : a remote posting tells you about a hiring market, not about a place, and blending them in made every city look more English than its offices are. They are still in our bank and in your matches. Counts come from last night's snapshot, not the second you are reading this. English-workable is the same floor as everywhere on this page : the listing itself confirms English is enough, and roles that state nothing are not counted. "Typical close" is the field's median age at closing over a rolling 21-day window, so a field whose roles close in seven weeks is not judged by the same clock as one that closes in four. "Long-open share" is the roles now sitting older than their own field's median ; the slice past that field's 90th percentile is the part that, in our records, usually dies unfilled. A field with fewer than 30 closings in the window leaves those two columns blank because we do not guess : a blank there means no history, never zero.

Left out of the ranking on purpose : 1,174 live roles whose title our classifier cannot place in any of these fields. It is usually the largest single bucket, and it is a bucket, not a field : ranking it first would make this table's headline finding a fact about our own classifier rather than about the market.

The ghost curve, the city table and the companies hiring in English live on the German job market, measured →

How long have these roles been sitting open?

A job board shows you a wall of "live" Berlin roles. Here is how old they actually are. The longer a role sits open, the likelier it is filled, frozen, or never real : the ghost-job pattern.

Berlin desks only, remote excluded, and only roles whose posting date we know : a conservative floor on both counts. Undated roles are left out rather than guessed into a bucket, so the real stale share can only be higher than what you see here.

Where can you actually work in English?

Berlin is the city this page measures, but it is not the only one we track. Here is how it sits against the rest of the German cities in our bank, on the same four numbers.

English-workable = the listing itself confirms English is enough (posting language, an explicit English-first line, or no other language required). Roles that state nothing are NOT counted as English-workable : the true number can only be higher than shown. Floors, not hype.

One honest caveat, and it cuts against Berlin : coverage differs by city. Berlin includes the full federal job-agency feed, so it carries the whole market including the German-language half ; the other cities mostly reflect the company career boards we track, which skew international. Berlin's lower English share is largely that difference, not a worse city for English speakers.

Companies hiring in English right now

The employers with the most Berlin roles open to English speakers this week. A starting point, not a ranking of quality : it is who has doors open in this city, by count of English-workable roles.

Berlin desks only, remote excluded. Counts English-workable roles from the company career boards we track : the federal feed and other aggregators are left out here, because this answers who is hiring, and a job board is not an employer. Numbers move as roles open and close.