No fewer than 4.19 million job vacancy ads were placed online in the Netherlands during the third quarter of this year, according to data from Jobfeed, Textkernel's big data tool for online vacancies.

A total of 4,195,156 vacancy ads were placed online in the Netherlands. Broken down by region South Holland had the largest share with 20.1%, closely followed by Noord-Holland (19.4%). Together these provinces account for a market share of 39.5%, up from 38.9% in Q3 2017. North Brabant and Utrecht followed and together, the four provinces accounted for 66.5% of all online vacancies, up from 65.9% last year.

Meanwhile, sales & trade last quarter was the occupation with the most online vacancies.

According to Eurostat, the Dutch unemployment rate stood at 3.9% in August.