The number of job vacancies in the Netherlands for the year 2016 showed an increase of 26.5% compared to 2015, according to a report from Jobfeed, a Big Data tool for vacancies for recruitment technology firm Textkernel.

The report, ‘The online job market in the Netherlands in 2016’, showed that the Trade sector had the largest increase in job vacancies with a 20.2% increase, despite a decline of 1.7% in market share.

The most in-demand profession was customer service, which was also the same in 2015.