IT freelance & contract jobs in Frankfurt 2026
5,630 of 44,305 analysed IT freelance listings name Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main) as their location (13%) – rank 1 of the 15 largest project cities. Clearly more in demand than across all projects: Java Backend Developer and Java Fullstack Developer; typical skills: Scrum, SAFe, Agile Methods.
- Projects: 5,630 of 44,305 (13%), rank 1 of 15 cities
- Fully remote: 39% of the projects stating a share (all projects: 39%)
- German required: 64% (all projects: 52%)
- Leasing and employment: 29% (all projects: 16%)
- Top role: Java Backend Developer (16% of the engineering projects)
- Typical skills: Scrum, SAFe, Agile Methods
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IT projects in Frankfurt compared
The key shares of the projects in Frankfurt next to those of all analysed projects of the same months.
| Frankfurt | All projects | |
|---|---|---|
| Fully remote (of the projects stating a share) | 39% | 39% |
| Fully or partly remote (of the projects stating a share) | 98% | 93% |
| No remote share stated | 14% | 34% |
| German required | 64% | 52% |
| Explicitly no German needed | 4.2% | 6% |
| Freelance | 67% | 71% |
| Employee leasing (ANÜ) | 22% | 13% |
| Leasing, fixed-term or permanent employment | 29% | 16% |
| Engineering projects (of the classified) | 46% | 30% |
Remote, hybrid or on site: IT projects in Frankfurt
39% of the projects in Frankfurt that state a remote share are fully remote – about as many as across all projects (39%). At least partly remote: 98% of them (all projects: 93%). 14% of the listings state no remote share.
Shares of the projects stating a remote share. Below each name: how many projects state a share at all.
German language and contract type: IT projects in Frankfurt
64% of the listings in Frankfurt require German – more often than all projects (52%). 4.2% explicitly need no German (all projects: 6%); 31% name no language.
67% of the projects in Frankfurt are freelance projects (all projects: 71%). Employment – employee leasing (22%) or fixed-term and permanent positions – makes up 29%, more than across all projects (16%). 4.3% state no contract type.
In-demand developer roles in Frankfurt
46% of the classified projects in Frankfurt are engineering projects (2,592 projects) – more than across all projects (30%). Engineering projects build software or technical systems; the others are e.g. consulting, project management, IT operations or projects outside IT. The bars show the roles with the most of those projects as a share of the city's engineering projects; the tick marks the share across all projects.
Clearly more frequent than across all projects: Java Backend Developer (16%; all projects 7.6%), Java Fullstack Developer (8.1%; all projects 5%) and Angular Developer (4.2%; all projects 2.1%). Clearly less frequent: Embedded C/C++ Developer (0.5%; all projects 5.6%), PLC / Automation Programmer (0.2%; all projects 4.5%), Security Engineer (3.8%; all projects 6.8%) and DevOps / Platform Engineer (11%; all projects 13%).
Most in-demand IT skills in Frankfurt
The technologies and methods listings in Frankfurt name most often, as a share of the projects with skills. Blue: typical for Frankfurt, i.e. asked for clearly more often than across all projects; the tick marks the share across all projects.
Under each name: its share in all projects.
Typical skills for IT projects in Frankfurt
Listings in Frankfurt ask for these clearly more often than all projects: Scrum (23%; all projects 7.5%), SAFe (17%; all projects 3.6%), Agile Methods (19%; all projects 8.3%), AWS (14%; all projects 4%), Jira (18%; all projects 8.2%) and CI/CD (18%; all projects 8.6%). Listings in Frankfurt name 17.7 skills on average, all listings 15.1; that difference alone does not make a skill typical.
IT recruitment agencies posting projects in Frankfurt
85% of the projects in Frankfurt name the posting company, mostly an IT staffing agency or project broker. The most frequent: Randstad (vorm. GULP; 12%). The bars show the companies with the most projects in Frankfurt as a share of the projects naming a company. More: IT recruitment agencies in Germany.
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Method
We count the location a listing names – the client's. An AI model reads the skills from each project description and assigns the role from its title and skills; a share counts as higher or lower only when its difference from the other projects is unlikely to be chance. The figures are updated monthly. Details: method of the city analysis.