Angular vs React in Germany: the frontend frameworks IT contracts ask for
Listings name Angular (35%) most often, followed by React (30%). Vue.js (12%) is third. Overall, 18% of the developer and engineering contracts in Germany ask for a frontend framework or for frontend development explicitly – most recently 569 new listings a month. This analysis covers 52,306 listings, broken down by framework, developer role and month.
Which frontend framework is most in demand in Germany?
The chart compares the frameworks with each other: each framework's share of all mentions of a frontend framework, 100% together. A listing naming two frameworks counts for both.
How many contracts ask for Angular, React or Vue?
The second chart shows how big the topic is overall: the share of all developer and engineering contracts naming the framework. These shares do not add up to 100%, because most contracts name no frontend framework at all, and some name several.
7.5% of the developer and engineering contracts name Angular (1,298 listings), 6.5% name React (1,128) and 2.6% name Vue.js (447). Together, 3,166 of 17,318 contracts name at least one frontend framework or frontend development explicitly, which is 18%.
Angular or React: what should a contractor in Germany know?
What counts for contract work is what the German project boards list: Listings name Angular (35%) most often, followed by React (30%). Together the two most named frameworks account for 66% of the framework mentions.
Demand by month and the skills most often named with each framework are on the pages for Angular and React, remote share, contract length and typical contracts on the role pages Angular developer, React developer and Java full-stack developer. What full-stack contracts pay is on the page Java full-stack developer hourly rate.
How much demand is there for Vue.js, SAPUI5, Next.js and Flutter?
Besides Angular and React, listings name Vue.js (12%), SAPUI5 (8.6%), Next.js (4.2%) and Flutter (2.8%). SAPUI5 is a special case: it is SAP's own UI framework and belongs to the SAP market, like ABAP and SAP BTP. Next.js builds on React; it counts here only when a listing names it.
Flutter and React Native (1.2%) are frameworks for mobile apps with one shared code base. Svelte has 7 listings in the whole period.
Which frameworks are gaining, which are losing?
Gained share from May–July 2026 to August–October 2026: SAPUI5 (+5.1). Lost share: React (−3.4) (in percentage points). The comparison is between the shares among the frameworks in the latest three months (August–October 2026) and the three months before (May–July 2026).
| Framework | May–July 2026 | August–October 2026 | Change (percentage points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angular | 36% | 35% | −0.1 |
| React | 32% | 29% | −3.4 |
| Vue.js | 12% | 12% | +0.3 |
| SAPUI5 | 5.9% | 11% | +5.1 |
| Next.js | 4% | 4.5% | +0.5 |
| Flutter | 2.9% | 2.7% | −0.2 |
| Web Components | 1.4% | 1.7% | +0.2 |
| Blazor | 1.7% | 0.9% | −0.8 |
| React Native | 0.8% | 1.5% | +0.8 |
| jQuery | 1.6% | 0.3% | −1.3 |
Grey: a change within the variation this number of listings produces by chance.
The share of frontend contracts among the developer and engineering contracts fell from 22.7% (May–July 2026) to 15.7% (August–October 2026). This article compares shares, not absolute numbers, because the number of analysed listings varies from month to month.
Which roles ask for frontend skills?
Frontend frameworks are not only named in listings for pure frontend developers. Most frontend contracts fall to the role Java Fullstack Developer (22%), followed by React Developer (13%). The chart shows how the frontend contracts are spread over the developer roles; under each role is the share of its own listings that are frontend contracts. Contracts without one of the listed roles are missing, so the bars do not add up to 100%.
What defines each role is covered in the analysis of the most in-demand developer roles.
Frontend contracts month by month
The table shows, per month, the developer and engineering contracts, how many of them are frontend contracts, their share, and the listings of the three most named frameworks.
| Month | Developer and engineering contracts | Frontend contracts | Share | Angular | React | Vue.js |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | 178 | 78 | 44% | 53 | 25 | 11 |
| June 2026 | 2,646 | 677 | 26% | 326 | 279 | 73 |
| July 2026 | 3,594 | 703 | 20% | 264 | 280 | 133 |
| August 2026 | 3,364 | 545 | 16% | 227 | 197 | 73 |
| September 2026 | 3,602 | 528 | 15% | 181 | 210 | 89 |
| October 2026 | 3,934 | 635 | 16% | 310 | 177 | 86 |
How to find frontend developer contracts in Germany
- Filter by your framework: Projectmatch shows the current projects with Angular, React or Vue.js from five project boards.
- Name the backend you bring in your profile as well: many frontend listings also ask for a backend.
- Have new projects matched against your profile automatically instead of searching every board – try it now.
See also: The most in-demand IT skills, The most in-demand developer roles, The most in-demand programming languages, Which skills are asked for together and Hourly and day rates of IT contractors.
Frequently asked questions
Which frontend framework is most in demand in German IT freelance contracts?
Listings name Angular (35%) most often, followed by React (30%). Vue.js (12%) is third. The percentages are shares of all mentions of a frontend framework in 52,306 listings (May 2026 – October 2026).
Angular or React: which is asked for more often in Germany?
7.5% of the developer and engineering contracts name Angular, 6.5% name React. Gained share from May–July 2026 to August–October 2026: SAPUI5 (+5.1). Lost share: React (−3.4) (in percentage points).
How many IT freelance contracts in Germany ask for a frontend framework?
18% of the developer and engineering contracts name a frontend framework or frontend development explicitly, most recently 569 new listings a month.
How much demand is there for Vue.js and Flutter?
2.6% of the developer and engineering contracts name Vue.js (447 listings), 0.5% name Flutter (95).
Method
An AI model reads every project description and records the skills it asks for. Different spellings are merged into one name (“ReactJS” counts as React). A framework counts for a listing when the listing names it or a library that clearly belongs to it: Angular Material and NgRx count for Angular, Redux for React, Vuex and Pinia for Vue.js. Every listing counts at most once per framework.
A frontend contract is a listing naming at least one frontend framework or frontend development explicitly. HTML, CSS, JavaScript or TypeScript alone are not enough, because they are asked for far beyond frontend work. Developer and engineering contracts are the listings assigned to a technical role of the developer roles analysis; listings for project management, consulting or operations are not among them. Frameworks with fewer than 30 listings are summed in the charts, and roles with fewer than 30 frontend listings are left out. The first month, May 2026, is only partly covered.
A change counts as a gain or a loss only when it is at least one percentage point and larger than the variation this number of listings produces by chance. The figures refer to the projects first listed in a month and are updated monthly. They are published under the CC BY 4.0 licence: you may use them freely, also commercially, crediting “Projectmatch (projectmatch.io)” and, online, linking to this page.