IT contract jobs in insurance & health insurance 2026
813 of 44,305 analysed IT freelance listings name an end client at insurers and health insurers (1.8%) – rank 9 of the 13 industries. Clearly more in demand than across all projects: Data Engineer and Java Fullstack Developer; typical skills: Java, Agile Methods, Jira.
- Projects: 813 of 44,305 (1.8%), rank 9 of 13 industries
- Fully remote: 32% of the projects stating a share (all projects: 39%)
- German required: 56% (all projects: 52%)
- Leasing and employment: 31% (all projects: 16%)
- Top role: Data Engineer (21% of the engineering projects)
- Typical skills: Java, Agile Methods, Jira
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IT projects at insurers and health insurers compared
The key shares of the projects at insurers and health insurers next to those of all analysed projects of the same months.
| Insurance & health insurers | All projects | |
|---|---|---|
| Fully remote (of the projects stating a share) | 32% | 39% |
| Fully or partly remote (of the projects stating a share) | 99% | 93% |
| No remote share stated | 24% | 34% |
| German required | 56% | 52% |
| Explicitly no German needed | 4.2% | 6% |
| Freelance | 60% | 71% |
| Employee leasing (ANÜ) | 23% | 13% |
| Leasing, fixed-term or permanent employment | 31% | 16% |
| Engineering projects (of the classified) | 44% | 30% |
Remote, hybrid or on site: IT projects at insurers and health insurers
32% of the projects at insurers and health insurers that state a remote share are fully remote – fewer than across all projects (39%). At least partly remote: 99% of them (all projects: 93%). 24% 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 at insurers and health insurers
56% of the listings at insurers and health insurers require German – about as often as all projects (52%). 4.2% explicitly need no German (all projects: 6%); 40% name no language.
60% of the projects at insurers and health insurers are freelance projects (all projects: 71%). Employment – employee leasing (23%) or fixed-term and permanent positions – makes up 31%, more than across all projects (16%). 9.8% state no contract type. More: Freelance vs employee leasing in Germany.
In-demand developer roles at insurers and health insurers
44% of the classified projects at insurers and health insurers are engineering projects (356 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 industry's engineering projects; the tick marks the share across all projects.
Clearly more frequent than across all projects: Data Engineer (21%; all projects 8.1%), Java Fullstack Developer (14%; all projects 5%) and Java Backend Developer (15%; all projects 7.6%). Clearly less frequent: DevOps / Platform Engineer (7%; all projects 13%), PLC / Automation Programmer (0%; all projects 4.5%), Low-Code Platform Developer (1.4%; all projects 5.6%), Test Engineer (4.5%; all projects 8.7%), SAP Developer (3.1%; all projects 6.9%) and Embedded C/C++ Developer (2%; all projects 5.6%).
Most in-demand IT skills at insurers and health insurers
The technologies and methods listings at insurers and health insurers name most often, as a share of the projects with skills. Blue: typical for the industry, 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 at insurers and health insurers
Listings at insurers and health insurers ask for these clearly more often than all projects: Java (18%; all projects 6.2%), Agile Methods (18%; all projects 8.3%), Jira (17%; all projects 8.2%), Business Analysis (11%; all projects 2.3%), Life Insurance (8.3%; all projects 0.2%) and Confluence (14%; all projects 5.7%). Listings at insurers and health insurers name 15.4 skills on average, all listings 15.1; that difference alone does not make a skill typical.
IT recruitment agencies posting projects at insurers and health insurers
76% of the projects at insurers and health insurers name the posting company, mostly an IT staffing agency or project broker. The most frequent: emagine (10%). The bars show the companies with the most projects at insurers and health insurers as a share of the projects naming a company. More: IT recruitment agencies in Germany.
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More industries: Energy & utilities · Transport & logistics · Public sector · Banking & finance · Manufacturing · Healthcare & pharma · Aerospace & defence · Automotive · Retail, e-commerce & consumer goods.
All industries compared: IT freelance projects by industry. By location: IT freelance projects by city. How remote IT projects are: How remote are IT freelance projects? Without German: English-speaking IT contracts in Germany.
Method
We count the end client's industry when a listing states it – e.g. “for a client in the energy sector” or “at a public authority” –, never the agency's and never inferred from the technologies asked for; an AI model reads it from each project description. 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 industry analysis.