Contact Centre Salespersons: Jobs in Demand in Europe (2025)

Contact Centre Salespersons is an official occupation group (ISCO-08 code 5244) used by the International Labour Organization and Eurostat.

  • Call centre salesperson
  • Customer contact centre salesperson
  • Internet salesperson
  • Telemarketer
  • Telemarketing salesperson
6European countries report a shortage (EURES 2025)
5countries report a surplus
369open job ads right now in Germany and Sweden
5244ISCO-08 occupation code
Short answerIn the 2025 EURES report on labour shortages, 6 European countries reported a shortage of contact centre salespersons: Czechia, Finland, Greece, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. 5 reported a surplus: Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania. Finland appears in both lists, which usually means shortages in some regions and surpluses in others.

Latest contact centre salespersons 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

106 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

263 open ads

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

Where contact centre salespersons are needed in Europe

CountryEURES 2025Average gross pay, all service and sales workers (2022)1-bed rent in the capital
CzechiaShortage€1,124 a monthPrague: €1,250
GreeceShortage€1,166 a month *Athens: €1,150
NetherlandsShortage€2,491 a monthNot yet verified
NorwayShortage€3,853 a monthOslo: €2,000
SwedenShortage€2,906 a month *Stockholm: €2,100
FinlandShortage and surplus€2,706 a month *Helsinki: €1,150
AustriaSurplus€2,397 a month *Vienna: €1,250
BulgariaSurplus€510 a monthSofia: €650
LatviaSurplus€928 a monthRiga: €870
LithuaniaSurplus€1,166 a monthVilnius: €830

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

What contact centre salespersons do

Contact centre salespersons contact existing and prospective customers, using the telephone or other electronic communications media, to promote goods and services, obtain sales and arrange sales visits. They may work from a customer contact centre or from non-centralised premises.

Typical tasks

  • Promoting goods and services by telephone or electronic mail, following scripts and working from lists of contacts
  • Creating interest in goods and services, and seeking a sale or agreement to see sales representatives
  • Arranging processing and despatch of goods and services, information kits and brochures to customers
  • Arranging appointments for sales representatives
  • Recording notes for follow-up action and updating marketing databases to reflect changes to the status of each customer
  • Reporting competitor activities and issues raised by contacts for attention by managers
  • Maintaining statistics of calls made and successes achieved
  • Submitting periodic reports on telemarketing activities and results

Finding contact centre salespersons jobs in Europe

  • EURES is the official job portal of the EU public employment services. The search above looks for "Telemarketer".
  • 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:

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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