Working as a plumber in the Netherlands
What official sources say about working as a plumber in the Netherlands: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In the Netherlands, the occupation group "Craft and related trades workers", which includes plumbers, earns ≈ 4,509 EUR/month (gross, 2024). Plumber is not a regulated profession in the Netherlands. Foreign qualifications go through: No profession-wide foreign-professional recognition application is required for the title where the Dutch RegProf catalogue does not list it. Optional IDW diploma valuation compares an academic credential but is not a practice licence. In the Netherlands, plumbers are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Craft and related trades workers"
- ≈ 4,509 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Not marked regulated
- Recognition route
- No profession-wide foreign-professional recognition application is required for the title where the Dutch RegProf catalogue does not list it. Optional IDW diploma valuation compares an academic credential but is not a practice licence.
- Shortage list
- Listed
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Craft and related trades workers" in the Netherlands: ≈ 4,509 EUR/month (gross, 2024), from ILO. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of plumbers alone.
Regulation and recognition
Plumber is not a regulated profession in the Netherlands.
- Recognition route
- No profession-wide foreign-professional recognition application is required for the title where the Dutch RegProf catalogue does not list it. Optional IDW diploma valuation compares an academic credential but is not a practice licence.
- Recognition authority
- No profession-specific recognition authority applies to the broad title when it is not listed as regulated; an optional academic credential evaluation can be requested through IDW/Nuffic/SBB.
- Language requirement
- No professional-recognition language threshold applies to this broad title where the Dutch catalogue does not list it; employer language and language rules for particular reserved activities are separate.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for plumber in Netherlands: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Plumber in the Netherlands: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version c21fee9db9c239565c478e6116918c8d]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/plumber/netherlands/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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