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Shortage occupations in Belgium,region by region

Consult the occupations directly by Brussels, Wallonia and Flanders. LEXPAT Connect regional database updated continuously.

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Brussels-Capital Region

Brussels-Capital Region

The Brussels list is published by Actiris. It is a useful operational reference point, even though it is not the only practical reading used in Brussels.

84 occupations

Retail, sales and large distribution

  • Technical Sales Advisor
  • Technical Advisor for Customer Support
  • Food Department Manager

Accounting, finance, insurance, legal and real estate

  • Financial Analyst
  • Chief Accountant
  • Accountant
  • Insurance Advisor
  • Chartered Accountant
  • Property Manager

Construction and public works

  • Building Technical Researcher
  • Site Manager
  • Formwork carpenter / steel fixer
  • Construction Site Supervisor
  • Tower crane operator
  • Mobile crane operator
  • Construction equipment operator
  • Pitched roof roofer
  • Flat roof roofer
  • Industrial electrician installer
  • Residential electrician installer

Construction

  • Communications network technician
  • Bricklayer
  • Exterior construction carpenter
  • Interior construction carpenter
  • Quantity Surveyor
  • Road construction worker
  • Building and Infrastructure Maintenance Manager
  • Heating system maintenance technician
  • Heating systems maintenance technician

Education and training

  • Educational coordinator
  • Educator in a school
  • Secondary school teacher
  • Nursery or primary school teacher
  • Adult trainer
  • Driving instructor

Hospitality

  • Hotel and restaurant management assistant

IT and telecommunications

  • ICT analyst-developer
  • ICT business analyst
  • IT Department Manager

Administrative roles

  • Executive Assistant
  • Human Resources Manager

Technical and industrial occupations

  • Electrical and electronic design draughtsperson
  • Mechanical design draughtsperson
  • Maintenance electrician
  • Safety, health and environment expert
  • Compliance inspector
  • Elevator installer
  • Maintenance mechanic
  • Quality control manager in industry
  • Industrial maintenance manager
  • Production Methods and Industrialisation Manager
  • Production Planning and Management Manager
  • Elevator maintenance technician
  • Industrial equipment maintenance technician
  • Industrial automation technician
  • Refrigeration and air-conditioning technician
  • Safety, health and environment technician

Healthcare and social care

  • Healthcare assistant
  • Paramedic
  • Social worker
  • Employment advisor
  • Social welfare advisor
  • Educator-accompanist
  • Occupational therapist
  • Nurse
  • Head nurse
  • Social nurse
  • Operating theatre nurse
  • Paediatric nurse
  • Speech therapist
  • Doctor
  • Instructor-facilitator in the social economy
  • Pharmacist
  • Childcare worker
  • Daycare manager
  • Medical laboratory technologist
  • Medical imaging technologist

Personal services, security, cleaning and recycling

  • Security guard
  • Public security officer

Transport and logistics

  • Purchaser
  • Bus driver
  • Truck driver with trailer
  • Multi-skip truck driver
  • Head of procurement
Wallonia

Wallonia

Wallonia publishes a direct and operational list, especially useful for field occupations, industry, healthcare and logistics.

56 occupations

Regional list

  • Property Manager
  • Quantity Surveyor
  • Construction Site Supervisor
  • Chef / Cheffe de chantier
  • Heavy steel structure assembler
  • Residential electrician installer
  • Industrial electrician installer
  • Sanitary installer (plumber)
  • Central heating installer
  • Exterior construction carpenter
  • Interior construction carpenter
  • Tiler
  • Pitched roof roofer
  • Formwork carpenter / steel fixer
  • Ouvrier / Ouvrière de voirie
  • Qualified bricklayer / mason
  • Water pipe layer
  • Chef de partie
  • Technical Sales Advisor
  • Production process and methods technician
  • Chemical plant operator
  • Textile manufacturing machine operator
  • Production team leader
  • Industrial sheet metal worker
  • CNC machine tool setter-operator
  • Conventional machine tool setter-operator
  • Metal structure assembler
  • TIG welder
  • Pipe fitter
  • Industrial maintenance manager
  • Technicien / Technicienne en automatisation industrielle
  • Industrial maintenance electromechanic
  • Industrial electronics maintenance technician
  • Refrigeration and air-conditioning technician
  • Communication networks and security systems technician
  • Heating systems maintenance technician
  • Maintenance electrician
  • Maintenance mechanic
  • Construction, agricultural and lifting equipment maintenance mechanic
  • Heavy truck and commercial vehicle mechanic (+3.5T)
  • Car and light vehicle mechanic (-3.5T)
  • Automotive technician
  • Bodywork sheet metal worker
  • Bodywork preparer
  • Bodywork painter
  • Healthcare assistant
  • Social worker
  • Moniteur / Monitrice d’auto-école
  • Accountant
  • Inland waterways sailor (deckhand)
  • Heavy truck driver - Category C license
  • Heavy truck driver - Category CE license (skip loader / multi-skip)
  • Heavy truck driver - Category CE license
  • Conducteur / Conductrice d’autobus
  • Coach driver
  • Teacher (within the shortage occupation list for teaching established by the French Community)
Flanders

Flanders

Flanders presents shortage occupations through functional families. It is particularly useful for technical, industrial and care profiles.

228 occupations
✦ Full labour market test exemption— Ministerial Decree 1 Dec. 2025 · 21 occupations● 9-week labour market test required (VDAB + EURES)

Agriculture, horticulture, forestry and fishing

  • Agricultural worker
  • Horticulture worker
  • Garden and green space worker
  • Garden and green space supervisor

Construction — design, site management and coordination

  • Soil surveyor
  • Architectural draughtsperson
  • Construction estimator✦ Full exemption
  • Building design and advisory engineer
  • Land surveyor
  • Construction and public works project manager
  • Safety coordinator
  • Construction site manager

Construction — shell and finishing works

  • Formwork setter and concrete worker✦ Full exemption
  • Roof carpenter
  • Roofer✦ Full exemption
  • Shell construction worker
  • Bricklayer / Mason✦ Full exemption
  • Timber frame carpenter
  • Screed floor layer
  • Glazier
  • Interior builder
  • Natural stone worker
  • Interior joinery installer
  • Exterior joinery installer
  • Painter-decorator
  • Plasterer
  • Floor and tile layer

Construction — maintenance, installations and infrastructure

  • Asbestos remover✦ Full exemption
  • Burner technician
  • Façade renovator / concrete restorer
  • Building installation technician
  • Security systems technician
  • Data communication and network technician✦ Full exemption
  • Electrotechnical installer
  • Energy management systems installer
  • Installation technician (HVAC / plumbing)✦ Full exemption
  • Above and underground pipe installer
  • Renewable energy technician
  • Sewer pipe layer
  • Road construction worker
  • Water, sewage and heating network connector
  • Utilities installer
  • Scaffolder
  • Earthmoving machine operator✦ Full exemption
  • Horizontal drilling machine operator
  • Vertical drilling machine operator
  • Concrete and asphalt machine operator
  • Crane operator✦ Full exemption
  • Tower crane operator

Industrial professions — supervisors and technicians

  • Production department supervisor
  • Production manager
  • Engineering project manager
  • Production team leader
  • Industrial maintenance supervisor
  • Quality control supervisor
  • R&D supervisor
  • Production process and methods expert
  • Production planner
  • Work preparation engineer✦ Full exemption
  • Industrial laboratory technician
  • Industrial electromechanic✦ Full exemption
  • Lift technician
  • Industrial automation designer✦ Full exemption
  • Electrical and electronics technician✦ Full exemption
  • Electronic installations technician✦ Full exemption
  • Refrigeration technician✦ Full exemption
  • Climate control technician
  • Industrial maintenance technician✦ Full exemption
  • Industrial automation maintenance technician✦ Full exemption
  • Electrical and electronic design draughtsperson
  • Mechanical design draughtsperson

Industrial professions — production, food and textiles

  • Food industry process operator
  • Food industry production operator
  • Bread and pastry baker
  • Chocolatier and ice cream maker
  • Slaughterer
  • Butcher
  • Meat cutter / deboner
  • Textile production line operator
  • Textile machine operator
  • Textile production line worker
  • Polyvalent sewing machine operator
  • Print operator
  • Print finishing operator
  • CNC woodworking machine operator
  • Wood production operator
  • Cabinet maker / furniture maker
  • Workshop carpenter / joiner

Industrial professions — metal, chemicals and other

  • Foundry operator
  • Assembly operator
  • Manual welder
  • Die / mould maker
  • Sheet metal machine setter-operator✦ Full exemption
  • Machining setter-operator (turning / milling)✦ Full exemption
  • Machine builder
  • Steel structure assembler
  • Pipe fitter✦ Full exemption
  • Rigger and assembler
  • Panel builder / electrical machine assembler
  • Electrotechnician✦ Full exemption
  • Industrial electrician
  • Pharma and biotech operator
  • Chemical industry process operator✦ Full exemption
  • Energy and petrochemical industry process operator
  • Plastics production operator and machine regulator
  • Plastics processing worker
  • Paper or cardboard machine operator
  • Packaging operator
  • Industrial painter
  • Works at height specialist
  • Diamond cutter / processor✦ Full exemption

Industrial professions — vehicles and machinery

  • OBD technician — passenger cars and light vehicles✦ Full exemption
  • OBD technician — heavy commercial vehicles
  • Moped and motorcycle technician
  • Garden, park and forestry machinery technician
  • Construction, agricultural and lifting machinery technician✦ Full exemption
  • Aircraft technician
  • Marine engineer
  • Bicycle mechanic
  • Maintenance mechanic — passenger cars and light vehicles
  • Maintenance mechanic — heavy commercial vehicles✦ Full exemption
  • Bodywork assembly / disassembly technician
  • Bodywork panel beater✦ Full exemption
  • Bodywork painter / sprayer
  • Bodywork preparer✦ Full exemption

Transport and logistics professions

  • Freight dispatcher
  • Customs declarant
  • Freight forwarder
  • Logistics supervisor
  • Forklift driver
  • Warehouse worker
  • Reach truck driver
  • Removal worker
  • Bus driver
  • Coach driver
  • Taxi and private transport driver
  • Truck driver
  • Train driver
  • Railway worker
  • Inland waterways sailor✦ Full exemption

Commercial and sales professions

  • Optician
  • Shop sales assistant
  • Technical customer support advisor
  • Shop assistant
  • Assistant store manager
  • Store manager
  • B2B sales representative

Hospitality and catering professions

  • Hotel receptionist
  • Hotel room attendant
  • Polyvalent hotel employee
  • Chef de partie
  • Large-scale kitchen chef
  • Commis chef
  • Large-scale kitchen assistant chef
  • Kitchen worker
  • Cook / Chef
  • Fast food worker
  • Bartender
  • Assistant waiter
  • Waiter
  • Maître d’hôtel
  • Hospitality manager

Leisure and artistic professions

  • Polyvalent stage technician
  • Senior lifeguard

Organisational support and knowledge professions

  • Sales engineer
  • Inside sales representative
  • Contact centre agent
  • Payroll advisor
  • Accountant
  • ICT manager
  • Management assistant
  • Technical-administrative employee
  • Data manager
  • Data scientist
  • ICT architect
  • ICT security specialist
  • ICT integration expert
  • Software analyst
  • Network administrator
  • System administrator
  • Data engineer
  • Software developer
  • Software tester
  • ICT support technician

Service professions

  • Employment agency consultant / job coach
  • Social worker
  • Hairdresser
  • Beauty specialist
  • Textile care worker
  • Funeral assistant
  • Investment advisor
  • Credit advisor
  • Insurance advisor
  • Insurance administrator
  • Property manager / syndic assistant
  • Security guard
  • Police officer
  • Soldier / sailor in defence
  • Domestic and cleaning helper
  • Window cleaner
  • Industrial cleaner

Medical, paramedical and care professions

  • Medical doctor
  • Veterinarian
  • Hospital pharmacist
  • Physiotherapist
  • Audiologist and hearing aid specialist
  • Ergotherapeut
  • Optometrist
  • Orthopaedic technologist
  • Medical imaging technologist
  • Head nurse
  • Nurse
  • Personal assistant (care)
  • Home carer✦ Full exemption
  • Nursing aide✦ Full exemption
  • Dental technician
  • Paramedic / ambulance worker

Educational and pedagogical professions

  • Special secondary education teacher
  • Nursery school teacher
  • Primary school teacher
  • Secondary school teacher
  • School director
  • Driving instructor
  • Kinderbegeleider baby’s en peuters
  • Childcare worker (school-age children)
  • Instructor-coach in the social economy
  • Educational support worker
  • Childcare supervisor

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