Defend 🇪🇺. Defend Democracy.
The world is changing — fast. Europe needs sharp minds and steady hands to stay safe. Discover high-impact careers in the defence sector across the EU.
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The European defence ecosystem
Funding, hackathons and internships — the rest of the way into European defence.
Faculty
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There are 2,094 defence jobs open across 21 European countries as of August 2026. We track roles from the whole defence industry — established primes, government agencies and venture-backed defence-tech scaleups — so you can search the entire European defence sector in one place and filter by country, sector, security clearance and salary.
Whether you're looking for defence industry jobs, defence sector roles, or openings at a specific defence company, start from the board above, or jump straight into a sector, country or clearance below.
Defence jobs are roles at the companies, agencies and startups that build technology and services for national security and the armed forces — from aerospace, land, naval and space systems to cybersecurity, drones, AI and intelligence. Defence Jobs EU aggregates open roles from across the European defence industry in one place.
They mean much the same thing — jobs across the defence sector, which spans the primes, government agencies, suppliers and defence-tech scaleups that make up Europe's defence industrial base. On Defence Jobs EU you can filter every role by sector (aerospace, cyber, land systems and more), country and security clearance.
Hiring is currently strongest in Germany, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Spain. Browse defence jobs by country to see live openings in each market.
Many do — NATO, EU or national clearances are common for roles that touch classified programmes — but plenty of defence and dual-use roles need no clearance to start, and employers often sponsor it. See our clearance guide and filter roles by the clearance they require.
Pay varies by role, seniority, country and clearance. The Defence Jobs EU Salary Explorer breaks down advertised and community-shared defence salaries by role, level and country.
