Málaga
The main hub. Google, Vodafone, a rebuilt port full of restaurants, and La Malagueta beach a walk from the office. Most of our Nordic, Dutch and German desks are here.
🇪🇸 Destination
Working in Spain
Málaga spent the last decade turning from a beach town into the fastest-growing tech city in Spain. Google put its largest European cybersecurity centre here, on the seafront between the marina and La Malagueta beach. Vodafone put a €225 million research hub here. The city ran out of local candidates, which is exactly why it is hiring people like you.
- Where we place
- Málaga and Alicante
- Typical contract
- Permanent Spanish contract
- Working week
- 39 hours
- Paid holiday
- 23 days plus public holidays
- Healthcare
- Public system, plus private cover from the employer
- Language needed
- Your native language plus around B2 English
Why people go
What actually makes Spain worth the move
Not the brochure version. The things people who moved here bring up unprompted a year later.
01
You are moving somewhere that is going up
Google's biggest cybersecurity centre in Europe sits on the Málaga seafront. Vodafone is investing €225 million and more than 600 skilled jobs into its research hub here. People have started saying Málaga Valley without much irony. A service desk in this city is not a dead end, it is a foot in a place where international companies are arriving faster than they can staff.
02
The Costa del Sol already speaks your language
This stretch of coast has one of the densest concentrations of Nordic, Dutch and German speakers working anywhere in Europe, and several hundred of them are inside the hubs we place into. You will not be the only Dane in the building. That matters far more in month three than it does in week one.
03
Life runs slower here, and mostly outdoors
The rhythm takes adjusting to, in the best way. Evenings are long: dinner starts at nine, the terraces stay full past midnight, and most of life happens outside rather than behind a door. Your weekends fill up with the slow version of everything — a menú del día with the team, three courses for €12 to €15, or the beach after work. It takes about a month to stop rushing, and then you never want to go back.
04
Roughly 300 days of sun a year
That statistic gets quoted until it means nothing, so here is what it actually looks like. Swimming in October. Terraces in January. A winter that is a mild grey fortnight rather than a season. If you are coming from northern Europe, this is the part that changes your life, not the job title.
Real numbers
What a month in Spain actually costs
Current 2026 prices, not figures copied from a five-year-old guide. If anything here turns out to be wrong, tell us and we will fix it.
Alicante runs about 10% cheaper than Málaga across the board. Both sit well below Barcelona and Madrid, which is a large part of why the hubs are here rather than there.
- Room in a shared flat, Málaga
- €400 to €550
- Room in a shared flat, Alicante
- €350 to €450
- Studio or one-bed, outer Málaga
- €650 to €1,000
- Menú del día, three courses
- €12 to €15
- Caña of beer on a terrace
- €2 to €3
- Monthly transport pass
- Around €30
- Gym membership
- €25 to €40
- Comfortable month, sharing a flat
- €1,100 to €1,400
Where the roles are
The cities we place into in Spain
Alicante
Costa Blanca, around 10% cheaper than Málaga, and smaller in a way people either love or outgrow. The Explanada and the beach are both a short walk from the office.
Before you go
What living in Spain is actually like
The parts of the move nobody puts in the job advert.
Getting set up
You need a NIE number and a Spanish social security number. Employers who hire internationally walk you through both, and most book the appointments with you rather than handing you a form and wishing you luck. A bank account takes an afternoon once the NIE is through.
Finding somewhere to live
Most people land in a shared flat found through Idealista or a Facebook group, then move somewhere better after six months once they know which barrio they actually want. In Málaga: Soho and El Perchel are central and lively, Teatinos is cheaper and full of students, Pedregalejo is by the sea and quieter.
Weekends
Granada and the Alhambra are ninety minutes inland, Seville two and a half hours, Morocco a ferry from Tarifa. The white villages start half an hour from Málaga. The Sierra Nevada has skiing into April, so you can genuinely ski and swim in the same weekend.
Most commonly hired for
- Customer advisor
- Technical support
- Inside sales
- Back office
Hiring now
Open roles in Spain
MálagaOn-site
DanishCustomer advisor
Danish-speaking Customer Service Representative
Málaga is now the fastest-growing tech city in Spain: Google put its largest European cybersecurity centre on the seafront here and Vodafone put a €225 million research hub alongside it. This coast also holds one of the largest concentrations of Nordic and Dutch speakers working in Europe, several hundred of them in these two offices. You will not be the only Dane in the building, which matters more in month three than you would think.
Málaga Valley · a Nordic community already on site
Permanent · Rolling intakes
MálagaOn-site
NorwegianCustomer advisor
Norwegian-speaking Customer Service Representative
The Norwegian desk in Málaga. Same offices, same Nordic community, and a two-and-a-half hour flight home when you need it.
300 days of sun · a Nordic community already on site
Permanent · Rolling intakes
AlicanteOn-site
DutchCustomer advisor
Dutch-speaking Customer Expert, Telecoms
A Dutch telecoms brand runs its customer desk from Alicante, on the Costa Blanca. You work in Dutch for a company you already know, on a Spanish contract, with the Explanada and the beach ten minutes from the office.
Costa Blanca · a Dutch brand, a Spanish contract
Permanent · Rolling intakes
MálagaHybrid
DutchCustomer advisor
Dutch-speaking Customer Support Agent
The smallest employer we place with, and for a lot of people the best fit. A support team by Málaga harbour that works for product-led European companies, with hybrid working and a permanent indefinido contract from day one rather than after probation.
Hybrid · indefinido contract from the start
Permanent · Rolling intakes
MálagaHybrid
DanishCustomer advisor
Danish-speaking Customer Support Agent
A small, deliberately un-corporate support team by Málaga harbour, working for product-led European companies. Hybrid, permanent from day one, and close enough to the water to swim before work.
Hybrid · indefinido contract from the start
Permanent · Rolling intakes
MálagaHybrid
NorwegianCustomer advisor
Norwegian-speaking Customer Support Agent
The Norwegian seat on a small support team by Málaga harbour. Hybrid working, a permanent contract from the start, and a five-minute walk from the train station.
Hybrid · indefinido contract from the start
Permanent · Rolling intakes
The role is not the hard part. Deciding to go is.
Send your CV and we will come back to you with the roles that actually match, in the countries you actually want.