IT freelance & contract jobs in Stuttgart 2026
1,114 of 44,305 analysed IT freelance listings name Stuttgart as their location (2.5%) – rank 7 of the 15 largest project cities. Clearly more in demand than across all projects: Embedded C/C++ Developer and React Developer; typical skills: Public Sector, IT Service Management, PRINCE2.
- Projects: 1,114 of 44,305 (2.5%), rank 7 of 15 cities
- Fully remote: 31% of the projects stating a share (all projects: 39%)
- German required: 54% (all projects: 52%)
- Leasing and employment: 17% (all projects: 16%)
- Top role: Embedded C/C++ Developer (13% of the engineering projects)
- Typical skills: Public Sector, IT Service Management, PRINCE2
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IT projects in Stuttgart compared
The key shares of the projects in Stuttgart next to those of all analysed projects of the same months.
| Stuttgart | All projects | |
|---|---|---|
| Fully remote (of the projects stating a share) | 31% | 39% |
| Fully or partly remote (of the projects stating a share) | 95% | 93% |
| No remote share stated | 23% | 34% |
| German required | 54% | 52% |
| Explicitly no German needed | 6.9% | 6% |
| Freelance | 78% | 71% |
| Employee leasing (ANÜ) | 14% | 13% |
| Leasing, fixed-term or permanent employment | 17% | 16% |
| Engineering projects (of the classified) | 28% | 30% |
Remote, hybrid or on site: IT projects in Stuttgart
31% of the projects in Stuttgart that state a remote share are fully remote – fewer than across all projects (39%). At least partly remote: 95% of them (all projects: 93%). 23% 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 Stuttgart
54% of the listings in Stuttgart require German – about as often as all projects (52%). 6.9% explicitly need no German (all projects: 6%); 39% name no language.
78% of the projects in Stuttgart are freelance projects (all projects: 71%). Employment – employee leasing (14%) or fixed-term and permanent positions – makes up 17%, about as much as across all projects (16%). 4.7% state no contract type.
In-demand developer roles in Stuttgart
28% of the classified projects in Stuttgart are engineering projects (310 projects) – about as many as 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: Embedded C/C++ Developer (13%; all projects 5.6%) and React Developer (8.1%; all projects 2.3%). Clearly less frequent: SAP Developer (3.2%; all projects 6.9%) and Java Backend Developer (4.5%; all projects 7.6%).
Most in-demand IT skills in Stuttgart
The technologies and methods listings in Stuttgart name most often, as a share of the projects with skills. Blue: typical for Stuttgart, 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 Stuttgart
Listings in Stuttgart ask for these clearly more often than all projects: Public Sector (6.6%; all projects 2.8%), IT Service Management (4.5%; all projects 1.9%), PRINCE2 (3.2%; all projects 1.1%), Automotive (3.8%; all projects 1.7%), IT Security (5.3%; all projects 3.4%) and Risk Analysis (3.4%; all projects 1.7%). Listings in Stuttgart name 15.4 skills on average, all listings 15.1; that difference alone does not make a skill typical.
IT recruitment agencies posting projects in Stuttgart
83% of the projects in Stuttgart name the posting company, mostly an IT staffing agency or project broker. The most frequent: SThree (4.7%). The bars show the companies with the most projects in Stuttgart 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.