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Data Engineer
Windmill Data, Utrecht, Netherlands, hybrid. Permanent, 40 hours a week. Posted .
Visa Fit result
Netherlands Visa FitAdd a profile to your profile before this job can be checked against a route.
Recommended pathway: Highly Skilled Migrant, Netherlands (standard threshold). Too little job or profile data to check the route.
- Thresholds are gross per month excluding the 8% holiday allowance, so compare the monthly figure on the contract.
- The employer must be an IND recognised sponsor; the register is public.
Top facts
- Offered salary
- €55,000 to €62,000
- Required salary
- €71,304
- Sponsor register
- Listed: Windmill Data B.V.
- Role evidence
- Strong
Eligibility gates
Legal compatibility (the first four) is kept separate from employer willingness (the last). A licence proves capability, not intent.
Listed in the demo register as Windmill Data B.V.
A recognised sponsor can apply for the permit. Recognition is capability, not a promise for this role.
No occupation list on this route
The salary criterion is the test. The job must be at graduate level in practice, which the salary threshold is designed to capture.
€55,000 is below the €71,304 threshold
Basis: standard threshold of €5,942 a month (€71,304 a year) excluding holiday allowance.
Profile needed
Add a profile so age, degree and graduation date can be checked against this route.
Vacancy offers sponsorship
Direct role-level evidence. Get it confirmed in writing before you rely on it. Vacancy text: “We are a recognised sponsor with the IND and arrange the highly skilled migrant permit and relocation.”
Career match
Whether the job is worth wanting, which is a different question from whether the route works. Nothing here changes the Visa Fit result above.
A career match needs to know what you are looking for. Add a profile and this becomes a score out of 100 across role, level, location, pay and how recently the vacancy was posted.
What is missing
- Profile needed
What would change the result
Completing your profile lets the check apply the right threshold to this job.
Ask the recruiter
Polite, specific, and written so the answer maps straight onto a gate above.
- Could you confirm in writing that the sponsorship offer applies to this role at the advertised salary?
Evidence and assumptions
Rule sources
- Skilled Worker visa: overview
- Skilled Worker visa: your job and salary
- Skilled Worker visa: when you can be paid less
- Skilled Worker visa: eligible occupations and codes
- Skilled Worker visa: going rates for eligible occupation codes
- Skilled Worker visa: knowledge of English
- Immigration Rules: Appendix Skilled Worker
- Register of licensed sponsors: workers
Terms used
- Sponsor licence
- Permission an employer holds from the Home Office to sponsor workers. It shows capability, not a promise for any particular role.
- Occupation code
- The SOC code the employer puts on the Certificate of Sponsorship. It decides whether the job is eligible and which going rate applies.
- Going rate
- The salary floor for that occupation code. The job must pay the general threshold or the going rate, whichever is higher.
- New entrant
- A lower salary rate, 70% of the going rate and at least £33,400, if you are under 26, on a Student visa at bachelor’s level or above or a Graduate visa now or in the last two years, or working towards a recognised qualification, registration or chartered status in the job. Limited to four years in total, Graduate visa time included.
Vacancy text
Windmill Data runs analytics for wind-farm operators across the North Sea. We need a Data Engineer in Utrecht to own our Spark pipelines and the dbt warehouse, working with four engineers and a small research team. €55,000 to €62,000 a year, 40 hours a week, permanent, hybrid. We are a recognised sponsor with the IND and arrange the highly skilled migrant permit and relocation.