No fewer than 728,144 unique job vacancies were posted online in the Netherlands during the first quarter of 2019, according to an analysis by Jobfeed, Textkernel's Big Data tool for vacancies. Among the sectors, Trade remained the sector with the largest market share of online vacancies.

Unique job vacancies refer to the number of job vacancies that remain after deduplication. Jobfeed’s data showed that 4,162,645 total job vacancies were posted online in the Netherlands in Q1 2019.

The top three sectors were Trade, Healthcare, Industrial & technology, which together added up to 46% of all online job openings.

The largest professional class in Q1 2019 was Sales & Trade with a market share of 9.3%.

Among the provinces, South Holland had the largest share of job vacancies, despite a 1.1% fall in market share.

The gap with number two province, North Holland, had narrowed slightly with the difference in market share from South and North Holland standing at 2.3% in the first quarter of 2018, while in the first quarter of 2019 it decreased to a difference of 1.4%. Taken together, the three largest provinces, South, North Holland and North Brabant, accounted for 54.4% of all online vacancies, this was compared to a combined market share of 56% in Q1 2018.

Data from Eurostat showed that the Dutch unemployment rate stood at 3.4% in February 2019.