29 agencies, 3 freelancers. The Dutch pool is overwhelmingly agency-based. Three freelancers is a short list for small, fixed jobs, so if you need one person rather than a team, read those three profiles first.
Amsterdam leads. Eindhoven, Haarlem and Zoetermeer follow, with a spread of other towns behind them. Proximity rarely decides a Shopify project; portfolio and fit do.
English, Dutch, and German as a bonus. Nine experts list German, which helps if Germany is your next market and you want someone who can review German product pages rather than just paste them in. If that's the plan, international expansion experts are worth a look too. Four list Spanish and two list French.
A strategy-heavy pool. All 32 list Store Setup & Management and 27 list Shopify Development. Consulting & Strategy comes next with 23, ahead of Marketing & Growth on 21. Design, UX & Branding (15), Copywriting & Content (11) and Finance, Taxes & Compliance (5) are thinner. With consulting that common, don't be surprised if a quote opens with a discovery phase.
What that means for choosing. If your store already exists and the question is what to do next, that consulting depth works in your favour. If you have a finished design and only need it built, say so in your brief, or you may pay for strategy you don't need.
How the listing runs. Experts based in the Netherlands appear first. Further down are experts based in other countries who already work with European merchants.