Explore the latest list of bottleneck professions in Belgium, highlighting the most in-demand jobs and sectors facing labor shortages, and discover opportunities for employment and career growth.

The minister draws up a list of occupations with structural shortages every two years, which is published in a Ministerial Decree. These are defined as bottleneck professions. The new list of middle-skilled bottleneck occupations open to migration will take effect on 1 September 2023.

This list is adapted to the current economic reality and labor market situation and contains 29 positions among the following:

• Drilling and Pile Driver

• Car Bus Driver

• Car Coach Driver

• Refrigeration technician

• Industrial Sheet Metal Worker

• Plasterer-iron fixer

• Bricklayer

• Floor tiler/placer of wall and loor coverings

• Construction calculator and quality controller of mechanical and metal structures 

Note, that the following positions are no longer on the list: 

• Chef

• Installer of data communication works

• Rigger-mounting engineer (rigger-monteerder)