How many tradespeople are Polish companies hiring?

The index

Every figure below is a count of publicly advertised roles and the distinct companies advertising them. Trades are grouped as the source classifies them.

Combining both driver categories gives 2,419 open roles across 1,237 distinct companies, which makes driving the largest single trade in the index once security is set aside.

Reading the ratios

Volume tells you how big a trade is. Roles per company tells you what kind of sale it is.

Security runs at 3.5 roles per hiring company, the highest in the index. Those are site contracts, sold to operations directors, and won on continuity. Welding runs at 1.8, and those are individual placements sold on speed and skill verification.

An agency covering both is really running two businesses. The pitch, the buyer and the sales cycle differ, even though the data sits in one table.

Where the Polish market is different

Poland exports labour and imports it at the same time. Companies compete for the same tradespeople against German and Dutch employers paying more, which keeps domestic vacancies open longer than the raw counts suggest.

That has a direct consequence for agencies. A Polish manufacturer advertising welders is often not competing with the firm down the road but with a wage in another currency. Agencies that can source from Ukraine, Belarus or Moldova and handle the paperwork are solving a different problem from a local recruiter, and should sell it that way.

The legal position also differs from Germany. Poland regulates unsolicited commercial email through UśUDE alongside GDPR, so outreach into this market needs its own consent posture rather than a translated German one.

What this dataset is not

These are public advertisements on one date, not a measure of employment. Roles filled through agencies or referral never appear, and companies that advertise only on their own site are missing.

Trade labels come from the source classification, so a role that spans two trades sits in one bucket. Treat the totals as a floor and the ratios as directional.

Turning a trade into a pipeline

Pick one trade before picking a market. An agency that places welders and an agency that staffs security sites need different lists, different contacts and different first lines.

From there the work is filtering to companies you can actually serve, prioritising roles that have stayed open, and reaching the operations owner rather than HR. We build that list, verify the contacts and open the conversation in the client's name.