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
Three hundred days of sun a year, swimming into October, and a winter that is a mild grey fortnight rather than a season. That is the part that changes your life. The timing is the rest of it: 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, and Vodafone a €225 million research hub. 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
Hiring nowMálagaOn-site
NorwegianCustomer advisor
Norwegian-speaking Customer Service Representative
The Norwegian desk on the Costa del Sol, inside one of the biggest multilingual offices in the south of Spain. Several hundred Nordic and Dutch speakers already work this floor, so you will not be the only Norwegian in the building, which matters far more in month three than you would guess. Málaga around it has become one of Europe's most talked-about cities: Google built its largest cybersecurity centre in Europe on the seafront, the tech and finance money keeps arriving, and a young international crowd has come with it. And then the everyday reason people stay: three hundred days of sun, the beach a tram ride from your desk, and Oslo two and a half hours away for whenever you need it.
300 days of sun · a Nordic community already on site
Permanent · Rolling intakes
Hiring nowAlicanteOn-site
DutchCustomer advisor
Dutch-speaking Customer Expert, Telecoms
A Dutch telecoms brand you already know runs its customer desk from Alicante, on the Costa Blanca. You work in your own language for a company you grew up with, on a permanent Spanish contract, in a city with one of the kindest climates in Europe and none of the price tags of the busier coasts. The Explanada palms and the beach are ten minutes from the office, the old town fills up on a Thursday night, and the rest of the Costa Blanca is a short drive when the weekend comes.
Costa Blanca · a Dutch brand you know, a Spanish contract
Permanent · Rolling intakes
Hiring nowMálagaHybrid
DutchCustomer advisor
Dutch-speaking Customer Support Agent
The opposite of a call-centre floor. A small, deliberately un-corporate team looks after the Dutch-speaking customers of product-led European tech companies, the kind of firms people actually enjoy using, from an office right on Málaga harbour. You are on a permanent indefinido contract from your first day, not after a probation gauntlet, and the week is hybrid, so the sea is a five-minute walk when you are in the office and your own sofa when you are not. The whole south of Spain is on the rise and Málaga is leading it: Google put its largest cybersecurity centre in Europe on this seafront, tech and finance firms keep arriving, and a young international crowd has come with them, so you land somewhere that is growing rather than somewhere already settled. And around it sits the everyday part: three hundred days of sun a year, a swim before your shift, and dinner on a terrace for the price of a coffee back home.
Swim before work · permanent from day one
Permanent · Rolling intakes
Hiring nowMálagaHybrid
DanishCustomer advisor
Danish-speaking Customer Support Agent
The opposite of a call-centre floor. A small, deliberately un-corporate team looks after the Danish-speaking customers of product-led European tech companies, the kind of firms people actually enjoy using, from an office right on Málaga harbour. You are on a permanent indefinido contract from your first day, not after a probation gauntlet, and the week is hybrid, so the sea is a five-minute walk when you are in the office and your own sofa when you are not. The whole south of Spain is on the rise and Málaga is leading it: Google put its largest cybersecurity centre in Europe on this seafront, tech and finance firms keep arriving behind it, and a young international crowd has come with them, so you land somewhere that is growing rather than somewhere already settled. But what you actually feel is the smaller stuff: three hundred days of sun a year, a swim before your shift, and dinner on a terrace for what a coffee costs in Copenhagen.
Swim before work · permanent from day one
Permanent · Rolling intakes
Hiring nowMálagaHybrid
NorwegianCustomer advisor
Norwegian-speaking Customer Support Agent
The Norwegian seat on a small, un-corporate support team based right on Málaga harbour, looking after the customers of product-led European tech companies. You are on a permanent indefinido contract from your first day, and the week is hybrid, so you are by the water when you are in the office and home when you are not, with Oslo two and a half hours away for whenever you need it. The whole south of Spain is on the rise and Málaga is leading it: Google's largest cybersecurity centre in Europe sits on this seafront, tech and finance firms keep arriving, and a young international crowd has come with them, so you arrive somewhere that is growing rather than somewhere already settled. And it trades the Norwegian winter for three hundred days of sun, a coast you can swim off before work, and a cost of living that lets a Spanish salary stretch in a way a Norwegian one never had to.
Swap the winter · permanent from day one
Permanent · Rolling intakes
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