Customer Support Advisor — Dutch speaking
Supporting Dutch-market customers by phone, email and chat for a consumer electronics brand. • Rotating shifts, Monday to Friday, no weekends • Three days in the office, two from home after training •…
Jobs in Barcelona
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Barcelona has the strongest startup and tech scene in Spain and a very large international workforce. It is the other obvious destination alongside Madrid, with a noticeably different job market: smaller companies, more product work, more remote-friendly employers, and Catalan alongside Spanish.
Latest jobs in Barcelona
All 2 →Secondary Maths Teacher — British curriculum
St. George International School
Teaching Maths to Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level in an established British international school. • September start, recruitment closing in March • Class sizes around 20 • Relocation support and help…
The job market in Barcelona
Tech and digital businesses dominate the international end of the market — product companies, agencies, gaming, and a steady flow of startups. Alongside that sits one of Europe's biggest tourism industries, a substantial logistics sector around the port, and pharma and chemicals in the wider region.
Competition is real: Barcelona is a place a lot of people want to live, and employers know it. Salaries for equivalent roles are often slightly below Madrid.
Main industries
Software and digital product, gaming, tourism and hospitality, logistics and shipping, pharmaceuticals and chemicals, automotive in the surrounding region, design and creative services, and a large education and research sector.
English-speaking work
English-language work is easier to find here than anywhere except Madrid, and the tech sector in particular runs in English day to day. Customer support hubs serving northern European markets hire continuously for language skills. Teaching English is a well-trodden route.
Catalan matters for public sector roles, education and anything customer-facing with locals; for international private-sector work it usually does not come up.
Typical salaries
Tech salaries are the highest in the local market but below London, Amsterdam or Berlin for the same role — that gap is the trade being made. Hospitality and tourism pay close to sector minimums set by the convenio. As everywhere in Spain, check whether an advertised figure is gross annual and over how many payments.
Cost of living
Rent is the highest in Spain and has risen sharply. This is the single biggest thing to research before accepting an offer: a salary that looks reasonable can be undone by the housing market. Everything else — transport, food, healthcare — is moderate.
Getting around
Metro, tram, bus and the FGC and Rodalies rail networks are dense and reliable. The city is compact enough that cycling is genuinely practical. Integrated travel cards cover the metropolitan zones, so living outside the city and commuting in is a normal arrangement.
Where people live
Gràcia, Poble-sec, Sant Antoni and Poblenou are popular with international arrivals. Eixample is central and expensive. Sants and Sant Andreu are better value and well connected. The nearer towns along the coast and the FGC lines are a common compromise.
Useful local resources
Catalunya runs its own employment service (SOC) in parallel with the national SEPE, with its own listings and training. Barcelona Activa, the city's economic development agency, runs free job-search and training programmes that are genuinely useful and open to residents.