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Poultry Producers: Jobs in Demand in Europe (2025)

Poultry Producers is an official occupation group (ISCO-08 code 6122) used by the International Labour Organization and Eurostat.

  • Poultry breeder
  • Poultry farmer
  • Poultry tender
8European countries report a shortage (EURES 2025)
2countries report a surplus
199open job ads right now in Germany and Sweden
6122ISCO-08 occupation code
Short answerIn the 2025 EURES report on labour shortages, 8 European countries reported a shortage of poultry producers: Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia. 2 reported a surplus: Austria and Bulgaria. Bulgaria appears in both lists, which usually means shortages in some regions and surpluses in others.

Latest poultry producers job ads

Real vacancies from the official public employment services, updated daily. Job titles are translated into English automatically; the full ad opens on the official site in German or Swedish (your browser's translate button turns it into English).

Germany

179 open ads

Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (German Federal Employment Agency). Ads are written by employers; Placeivo does not check them. See all ads in Germany

Sweden

20 open ads

Source: Arbetsförmedlingen (Swedish Public Employment Service). Ads are written by employers; Placeivo does not check them. See all ads in Sweden

Where poultry producers are needed in Europe

CountryEURES 2025Average gross pay, all skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers (2022)1-bed rent in the capital
CzechiaShortageNot yet verifiedPrague: €1,250
HungaryShortageNot yet verifiedBudapest: €910
ItalyShortageNot yet verifiedRome: €1,300
LatviaShortageNot yet verifiedRiga: €870
LithuaniaShortageNot yet verifiedVilnius: €830
RomaniaShortage€754 a month *Not yet verified
SlovakiaShortageNot yet verifiedBratislava: €910
BulgariaShortage and surplusNot yet verifiedSofia: €650
AustriaSurplusNot yet verifiedVienna: €1,250

Pay: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey 2022, mean gross monthly earnings of all skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers in each country, in euros. This is the average for the whole occupation group, not for poultry producers alone, and before tax. * Firms with 10 or more employees only. Rent: Eurostat, good-quality 1-bedroom flat in the capital, 2025.

What poultry producers do

Poultry producers plan, organize and perform farming operations to breed and raise chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks and other poultry to produce meat, eggs and breeding stock for sale or delivery to wholesale buyers, marketing organizations or at markets.

Typical tasks

  • Monitoring market activity, planning and coordinating production accordingly, maintaining and evaluating records of farming activities
  • Growing and purchasing feed and other supplies needed to maintain appropriate nutritional levels and condition of poultry
  • Monitoring and examining poultry to detect illness, injury, or disease and to check physical condition, such as rate of weight gain, and removing weak, ill and dead poultry from flock
  • Mixing feed and feed additives and filling feed and water containers
  • Vaccinating poultry via drinking water, injection or dusting of air
  • Collecting and storing eggs and packaging them for sale or delivery to market
  • Determining sex of chicks and facilitating breeding, artificial insemination and hatching of eggs
  • Renting or investing in, and maintaining and cleaning, farm buildings, machinery, equipment and structures
  • Slaughtering and dressing poultry for sale or delivery to market
  • Storing and carrying out some processing of produce
  • Arranging the sale, purchase and transportation stock, produce and supplies
  • Training and supervising workers in poultry production procedures, maintenance duties and health and safety precautions, and hiring and discharging workers and contractors

Finding poultry producers jobs in Europe

Search all EU vacancies on EURES Check if your job is regulated
  • EURES is the official job portal of the EU public employment services. The search above looks for "Poultry farmer".
  • Some jobs are regulated professions: before you can work, your qualification may need to be recognised in the new country.
  • If you are not an EU/EEA citizen you will usually need a work permit or a visa such as the EU Blue Card. Check the rules of the country's immigration authority.

Cost of living where the jobs are

Take-home pay needed to rent a good 1-bedroom flat in the capitals of countries reporting a shortage:

PragueBudapestRomeRigaVilniusBratislavaSofia

About this data

  • Shortage and surplus: European Labour Authority, EURES Report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annex table 21 (published 2026). Each country's public employment service reports which occupations it finds hard to fill or in oversupply. Countries not listed did not report this occupation as either.
  • Definition, tasks and job titles: International Labour Organization, ISCO-08 structure and definitions.
  • Pay: Eurostat, Structure of Earnings Survey 2022 (earn_ses22_48), by occupation group.
  • Job ads: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Germany) and Arbetsförmedlingen (Sweden), refreshed about once a day.

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