Income requirement for Highly Skilled Migrant for someone older than 30 isn't that high. According to: https://ind.nl/en/individuals/employee/costs-income-requ

Income requirement for Highly Skilled Migrant for someone older than 30 isn't that high. According to: https://ind.nl/en/individuals/employee/costs-income-requirements/Income-requirements https://ind.nl/en/individuals/employee/costs-income-requirem... You should earn €4189 per month. It's not a lot of money if you are good software developer. Booking in Amsterdam pay more than this! From my personal experience (I don't have degree), I can say that companies like Booking, Amazon, Facebook, Google etc don't care about your degree. If someone is handsome with algorithms and scalable architecture, then he/she can easily get more than €4K in Amsterdam.