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Visa Sponsorship Jobs in Spain — 2026

Spanish employers hiring internationally on highly-qualified and general work permits, mostly in Barcelona and Madrid. Refreshed daily.

Updated today
279visa-sponsored roles
59hiring companies
61added this week

Companies that sponsor visas

1Celonis32
2Perk31
3Preply17
4SumUp17
5CrowdStrike16
6Elastic14
7n2613
8Monzo11

Most in-demand skills

artificial intelligence184strategy112security105coaching89cross functional88pipeline78saas68ai driven67problem solving67mentoring65python62analytics59

Aggregated from the live descriptions of all 279 visa-sponsored roles in this category — not just the ones listed above, and not a curated set.

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Two cities, and they are not the same market

Sponsored hiring in Spain splits between Barcelona and Madrid, and the split is not cosmetic. Barcelona's share leans toward product companies and consumer marketplaces that grew up there or moved in for the talent pool; Madrid's leans toward fintech, enterprise software and the Spanish headquarters of companies operating across Latin America. A search that treats "Spain" as one place will keep surfacing roles in the wrong half of it.

What both halves share is that the sponsoring employers are overwhelmingly scale-ups rather than large incumbents — which is visible in the employer list on this page, and which is why the roles skew toward people who can operate without much structure around them.

The highly-qualified route is newer than most of Europe's

Spain rebuilt its route for skilled foreign hires comparatively recently, creating a highly-qualified professional permit handled by a dedicated national unit rather than through provincial immigration offices. In practice that means decisions on qualifying roles come back materially faster than the general regime, and employers who have used it once tend to keep using it.

That is worth knowing because it changes what a good signal looks like. An employer that has sponsored before is not just willing in principle — they have a process, and the difference between the two is usually months.

English-speaking jobs in Spain, and where Spanish still matters

Nearly every sponsored role on this page is advertised in English, which is the clearest signal available of what language the team runs on — a company writes the ad in the language it expects to interview in. For the product and engineering roles that dominate both the Barcelona and Madrid lists, that is usually English.

Spanish matters more as you move toward commercial, operations and customer-facing work, and for life outside the office it matters a great deal. Where the job itself needs it, the description says so.

Common questions

It means the employer is willing to act as your sponsor so you can legally work in Spain as a foreign national — handling the paperwork, and in most cases paying the associated fees. Without it, an employer can only hire candidates who already hold the right to work there.

Every listing on this page was flagged by JobGlance's detection pipeline, which reads the full job description for explicit sponsorship language — including relocation assistance and relocation packages, which usually accompany a sponsored move. Listings are re-checked continuously and expired roles are removed within 24 hours.

Usually not. Roles that offer sponsorship are specifically open to candidates applying from abroad — that is the point of sponsoring. Some employers do prefer candidates who can attend interviews in person, which the job description will normally say.

Yes. Browsing and applying is free, with no card required. A free JobGlance account additionally scores every role against your CV and ranks your search results by fit, so you can see which ones you are genuinely competitive for before you spend time applying.

Daily. New listings are ingested each evening and roles that have closed are removed within 24 hours, so what you see here reflects openings that were live today rather than a stale archive.

Almost all of them. Nearly every sponsored role listed here is advertised in English, which is the most reliable signal available of the language a team actually works in — an employer writes the ad in the language it expects to interview in. Where Spanish is a genuine requirement the job description says so, so read it before you apply.

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