I see a lot of companies move away from fully remote to hybrid, 2-3 days a week at an office. have you considered that? it might bring more opportunities. Also

I see a lot of companies move away from fully remote to hybrid, 2-3 days a week at an office. have you considered that? it might bring more opportunities. Also, if you are a decent engineer as you say, perhaps drop the match of 80% down to like 40-50% - as long as it sounds appealing to work there of course. With your experience you can likely motivate easily that you can skill up on any new things quickly regarding the mismatches. Other then that, the market is down for a lot of EU companies, not much good investments so a lot of layoffs at least in my country. EU is trying to work towards a bit better investments appearently if I have to beleive the news, but this will take a lot of time. Where I'm at, a lot of the multi-tenant buildings which used to be bustling with devs and startups etc. are just empty now and rent prices through the roof (so harder to get up and running with new products/ideas etc. which is where often you can find a lot of job positions). Due to that, a lot of these devs now go to more established companies, filling all those jobs up. I'm no expert on this, but just my observations looking around me at empty offices and jobless dev friends. perhaps you can go for automation/integration type jobs, and skillup a bit outside of the dev domain so you can do dev-ish kind of work in another domain. cyber needs a lot of that kind of stuff (working a lot towards automating stuff / SOAR etc.) and devs often do well in analyst/engineering jobs there. not strictly dev jobs but having the skills is a big + there. it might match your profile less, but people will likely be happy with your profile anyway.