Setlwork for Europe
For Europeans building careers across the UK and EU.
Setlwork turns evidence of what you have actually done into a structured skills and capability profile, then reads that profile against recognised UK and European skills standards, real occupations and current labour-market demand.
Build it once. Use it to understand which roles you are closest to, what stands between you and becoming competitive, and what to try and do about it.
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Vacancies by country
The map shows where current opportunities are being advertised across Europe, using vacancy data from EURES, the European Job Mobility Portal.
2,037,430 advertised vacancies across 31 countries.
Hover a country to see its volume
Vacancy volumes are a dated snapshot from EURES. As at 29 August 2026.
How it works
Different countries describe work differently.
At the individual user level, Setlwork provides a single, evidence-based profile and links it to standards, roles, and demand.
Setlwork reads evidence from individual CVs and the contextual data provided about their work, study and experience. It identifies the skills and capabilities demonstrated in that evidence rather than asking you to simply select skills from a list and rate yourself.
Your profile is mapped against recognised skills standards. For European roles, Setlwork uses the published crosswalk between the UK Standard Skills Classification and ESCO, the European Commission's classification of skills and occupations.
Setlwork compares your existing evidence with the requirements of different occupations. You can see what your experience already supports, where the gaps are, and which skills and capabilities are most important to focus on.
You may have the skills and capabilities for a desired role, but there may not be the opportunities in the market you are considering. Setlwork places the role alongside current advertised demand across 31 European countries, so readiness and opportunity can be considered together.
The Setlwork 5
Countries may classify occupations and skills differently.
The human capabilities that allow people to learn, adapt and perform travel more readily.
Setlwork measures five underlying foundational capabilities from evidence of what a person has actually done.
The metacognitive capability to notice and learn from one's own performance.
The relational capability to understand emotions in oneself and with others.
The adaptive capability to persist through challenging times and keep moving.
The agentic capability to believe in yourself and act with confidence under uncertainty.
Beyond simple communication skills, understanding the importance of body language, tone, facial expressions, timing, and knowing how to say things in the best way in different situations and environments.
Skills describe what you can technically do today. Capability helps show how well you will do things now and how ready you are for what comes next.
See how this is measuredHow scoring works
Our bespoke AI-powered skills engine, underpinned by academic research, interprets the evidence you provide and identifies the capabilities demonstrated within it.
Once the evidence has been structured, scoring follows deterministic rules. The same evidence produces the same calculation, and the result can be traced back to how it was reached.
Either market
The UK and EU use different systems to describe occupations and skills.
Setlwork connects them through the published crosswalk between the UK standard and ESCO, allowing the same underlying profile to be read against either market.
For EU citizens moving within the EU, sponsorship is generally not the central question.
What matters is whether your qualifications, experience, skills and capabilities fit the role, where that role is in demand, and what other requirements may affect your ability to move into it.
Setlwork shows:
Moving from the EU into the UK introduces a different constraint.
It is no longer enough to know whether an employer holds a sponsor licence. The individual role also needs to be capable of meeting the requirements for sponsorship.
Setlwork brings three things together:
The Home Office maintains the official register of licensed sponsors. Setlwork adds the job-level intelligence: which employers are actually recruiting and whether a specific vacancy appears capable of sponsorship.
Both readings run on the same profile you build once, because a published crosswalk links the UK and EU standards. Setlwork is aligned to and interoperable with both. Neither publisher endorses us.
See an example
The same engine also serves the authorities who plan the skills system. Pick who you are.
I am studying in the UK. What does my capability look like in Europe?
Amara, MSc Data Science, University of Leeds, graduating this year.
Amara's profile, built once
Her profile is first expressed through the UK Standard Skills Classification.
The same role in Europe
The same underlying evidence is then mapped through the published crosswalk to ESCO and read against European occupations.
What data analyst asks for
28 essential skills on this role in ESCO.
Nothing about Amara's evidence changes. The classification does.
The UK Standard Skills Classification ships a published crosswalk to ESCO, the European Commission's skills and occupations standard. All 3,350 UK skills carry an ESCO match, which is what lets one profile be read on both sides. Setlwork is aligned to and interoperable with both standards. Neither publisher endorses Setlwork.
1,214 vacancies in Europe
3,125 vacancies in Europe
7,528 vacancies in Europe
This view shows how much of her existing skills and capabilities carry over into other labour markets, which occupations sit closest to it, and where demand for those occupations exists.
Amara is an illustrative profile. The ESCO occupations, occupation requirements and EURES vacancy volumes shown are real.
Compare a field
Select a field and compare what the opportunity looks like across Europe and the UK.
The European view shows where that occupation is currently being advertised.
The UK view shows the vacancies held in Setlwork's index and, where relevant, which are currently classified as capable of sponsoring a visa.
They answer two different questions: Where is the work? Where could I realistically be hired?
In ESCO this is nurse responsible for general care. The same occupation, read on both sides.
Europe
Hover over a country
42,327
advertised vacancies for this occupation
1,747
jobs in Setlwork's UK index
5% of the UK jobs we hold for this field are currently classified as sponsoring.
European figures from EURES, the European Job Mobility Portal (European Commission). UK figures from Setlwork's own UK index, which holds 9,319 jobs of which 289 are currently classified as sponsoring. Both as at 29 August 2026.
Build your profile once. Read it against European roles, UK roles, or both.
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