Home job demand index: what is the Netherlands asking for?
Figures calculated on 19 August 2026
From 22 July 2026 to 18 August 2026 we collected 529 public job requests from 223 Dutch towns, over 28 days. The most requested trade was garden and paving: 124 requests, 23.4% of the total. Next is odd jobs and assembly with 108. These are the requests we see on two public channels, not a nationally representative survey.
529
job requests counted
28
days measured
223
towns
18
trades
What these figures are and are not
- These are public job requests that people post themselves on Marktplaats and in Dutch home improvement groups on Facebook. We collect them, we do not invent them. Anyone who finds a tradesperson through a neighbour or another platform does not show up here.
- This is not a nationally representative survey. How the requests spread across trades partly depends on the search terms our collector uses, and each search term returns a limited number of adverts per run. A trade that runs far ahead of the rest can get capped as a result.
- The numbers are still small. With a few hundred observations, a percentage moves from week to week. Read the ranking and the direction, not the decimals.
- Slices with too few observations are left out rather than turned into a percentage. If you do not see a province or a town listed, there were too few job requests to say anything meaningful about it.
- Deduplication happens on the advert at the source. If someone posts the same job as two separate adverts, it counts twice and we cannot see that.
- There are no personal details in here. Contact details are stripped from the text on collection and this page only shows counts.
Which trades are asked for most?
All 529 job requests from 22 July 2026 to 18 August 2026, spread across the 19 trades on JouwPro. Each request gets one trade, based on the search term that found it and the text of the advert.
124 23.4%
108 20.4%
89 16.8%
55 10.4%
27 5.1%
21 4%
17 3.2%
15 2.8%
14 2.6%
13 2.5%
11Sun protection and window coverings
11 2.1%
10 1.9%
13Roofing
8 1.5%
14Moving
6 1.1%
15Window frames, windows and doors
5 0.9%
2 0.4%
17Glazing
2 0.4%
2 0.4%
Where does the demand come from?
Of the 529 job requests, we could assign 438 to a province with certainty. For the rest, the town name is ambiguous (the Netherlands has more than one Hengelo and more than one Rijswijk) or it is not on our list yet, and we would rather not guess. Provinces with fewer than 8 job requests are left out.
| Province | Job requests | Share | Most requested |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Holland | 100 | 22.8% | Odd jobs and assembly (29) |
| North Holland | 81 | 18.5% | Painting (17) |
| North Brabant | 61 | 13.9% | Garden and paving (16) |
| Overijssel | 35 | 8% | Garden and paving (12) |
| Gelderland | 34 | 7.8% | Garden and paving (8) |
| Utrecht | 33 | 7.5% | Odd jobs and assembly (8) |
| Limburg | 26 | 5.9% | Odd jobs and assembly (7) |
| Friesland | 17 | 3.9% | Garden and paving (7) |
| Flevoland | 17 | 3.9% | Garden and paving (6) |
| Drenthe | 14 | 3.2% | Garden and paving (5) |
| Groningen | 14 | 3.2% | too few to name |
Towns with the most job requests
The job requests came from 223 different towns. Below are the towns with at least 4 requests in this period. The rest is a long tail of one or two.
- Amsterdam40
- Rotterdam29
- Enschede12
- Almere11
- Utrecht10
- 's-Gravenhage9
- Maastricht9
- Den Haag8
- Hengelo8
- Breda7
- Zoetermeer7
- Arnhem6
- Eindhoven6
- Helmond6
- Leeuwarden6
- Nijmegen6
- Apeldoorn5
- Bergen op Zoom5
- Groningen5
- Oud-Beijerland5
- Roosendaal5
- Tilburg5
- Zutphen5
- Zwolle5
- Almelo4
- Emmen4
- Hilversum4
- Zaandam4
How does demand move from day to day?
Each bar is one complete day in the period from 22 July 2026 to 18 August 2026. The day we started collecting and today are left out: they are half days, and that would make the series dip at the edges for no real reason.
Per complete week
| Week | Period | Job requests |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-W31 | 27 Jul to 2 Aug | 101 |
| 2026-W32 | 3 Aug to 9 Aug | 150 |
| 2026-W33 | 10 Aug to 16 Aug | 193 |
How we measure this
JouwPro collects public job requests every day, posted by people themselves on Marktplaats and in Dutch home improvement groups on Facebook. A fixed list of searches picks up new adverts, after which a filter removes everything that is not a job request: tradespeople offering their services, job vacancies, and adverts selling something.
What remains gets a trade and, where the source provides it, a town and a date. Deduplication happens on the advert at the source, so the same advert seen today and tomorrow counts once.
The date that counts is the day the poster placed the request at the source, not the day we saw it. Otherwise the chart would mostly show how often our collector runs.
The measurement period runs from the first complete collection day up to and including yesterday, so it moves forward every day. Anything the filter threw out does not count. An advert that has since expired does count, because the demand was there even if the advert is gone.
Contact details are stripped from the text on collection. If someone asks for their job request to be removed, it disappears from these figures too.
- Measurement period
- 22 July 2026 to 18 August 2026
- Number of observations
- 529
- Split across sources
- Marktplaats: 383 · Facebook groups: 146
- Marked as urgent
- 22 job requests (4.2%)
- Figures calculated on
- 19 August 2026
You may reuse this
If you write about the home improvement market, you may use these figures and charts. The condition is attribution to JouwPro and a link to this page, so your reader can check where the number comes from. Formally: CC BY 4.0.
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Frequently asked questions
Where do these figures come from?
From public job requests that people post themselves on Marktplaats and in Dutch home improvement groups on Facebook. JouwPro collects them daily, filters out everything that is not a job request, and counts what remains. In the period 22 July 2026 to 18 August 2026 that comes to 529 job requests.
Is this representative of the whole of the Netherlands?
No. These are people who post their job publicly on two channels, and the split across trades partly depends on the search terms we collect with. Use it to see the ranking and the movement, not as a national market figure.
Which trade is requested most?
Garden and paving, with 124 of the 529 job requests in this period, or 23.4%. The full breakdown across all trades is on this page.
How often are the figures updated?
The page recalculates itself from the database every fifteen minutes. Not a single number is typed in by hand, so what you see is what is in there right now.
May I use these figures in an article?
Yes, with attribution to JouwPro and a link to this page (CC BY 4.0). If you need a slice that is not shown, email info@jouwpro.nl.
Does this contain personal data?
No. Contact details are stripped on collection and this page only shows counts. Anyone who has their job request removed disappears from these figures too.
How many towns are covered?
223 different Dutch towns in this period. Most of them have one or two job requests, so only the towns with enough observations are listed on this page.
Open job requests
The job requests behind these figures are still open. If you are a tradesperson, this is what is available right now.
What does that work cost?
Each trade has a price guide with indicative prices and the sources listed.
Got a job of your own?
Post it for free. Tradespeople respond with their own price and you choose. Your money stays safe until you approve the work.