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Frontrunners Research
Group research team
The group research team turns signals from all four specialist desks into benchmarks, reports and the Talent Index.
- Salary benchmarks
- Hiring data
- Market reports
Latest insights
Talent
Specialists beat generalists — and the gap is widening
Hiring is a market problem before it is a process problem. Whoever knows the market best wins the search.
TalentThe Dutch labour market in numbers: Q2 2026
Vacancies fell again in Q2 2026, yet with 95 vacancies per 100 unemployed hiring in the Netherlands is still close to balance.
TalentTightness by province: hiring is a regional problem
Overijssel, Utrecht and Drenthe are the tightest hiring regions in the Netherlands; Groningen, South Holland and Flevoland the loosest.