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Active Directory freelance projects in Germany 2026

2.4% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Active Directory – 1,255 projects, rank 38 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 3.3% (+0.8 percentage points from the month before). Active Directory is asked for most often in Security Engineer projects: they make up 54% of the engineering projects with Active Directory.

By . Data: 52,106 listings on German IT freelance project boards, May 2026 – October 2026. Published , last updated .

Is Active Directory required or nice to have?

81% of the listings with Active Directory name it as a required skill. That is more often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 8.8% name it as nice to have, 11% without a clear mark.

Active Directory demand by month

Share of listings with Active Directory per month of first publication, with the number of projects under each month; months with fewer than 1,000 projects are left out. Single months fluctuate.

  1. June 2026172 of 7,653 projects2.2%
  2. July 2026197 of 9,884 projects2%
  3. August 2026157 of 10,216 projects1.5%
  4. September 2026284 of 10,958 projects2.6%
  5. October 2026437 of 13,054 projects3.3%

Skills asked for together with Active Directory

The 15 skills that listings with Active Directory name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Active Directory, i.e. asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall; the tick shows the share across all projects.

Under each skill: its share across all projects.

  1. Documentationall projects 10%31%
  2. IT Supportall projects 2.5%27%
  3. Windows Serverall projects 1.5%26%
  4. PowerShellall projects 1.3%20%
  5. Microsoft 365all projects 2.4%20%
  6. Windows 11 Migrationall projects 0.5%19%
  7. Entra IDall projects 1.1%18%
  8. Client Rolloutall projects 0.5%17%
  9. 2nd Level Supportall projects 1.7%16%
  10. IAMall projects 2.3%16%
  11. Linuxall projects 4.7%16%
  12. SCCMall projects 0.5%15%
  13. Windows 11all projects 0.6%15%
  14. Windowsall projects 1.8%14%
  15. Group Policiesall projects 0.4%13%

Typical for Active Directory – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Windows 11 Migration (19%), Client Rollout (17%), Group Policies (13%), SCCM (15%), Windows 11 (15%), Windows Server (26%).

All of the most frequent companion skills are typical for this skill.

Roles asking for Active Directory

20% of the projects with Active Directory are engineering projects (253 projects) – projects that build software or technical systems; the rest are e.g. consulting, project management or IT operations. The bars show the roles with the most of those projects and their share of them; 3.6% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Active Directory, and how often as required.

  1. Security Engineerin 13% of the role's projects · required 85%54%
  2. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 2.9% of the role's projects · required 50%23%
  3. Cloud Solution Architectin 3.5% of the role's projects · required 80%5.9%
  4. Java Backend Developerin 1% of the role's projects · required 42%4.7%
  5. C# / .NET Developerin 1.8% of the role's projects · required 55%4.3%

Skills related to Active Directory

Skills of this overview that are asked for together with Active Directory much more often than chance would predict.

How to use the data

If Active Directory is in your profile, the blue skills often belong with it – name them if you have them. Projectmatch automatically matches new projects against your profile and shows for each project which of the required skills your profile covers. Browse current Active Directory projects or try it now.

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Method

An AI model reads the requested skills from each project description, and a project's role from its title and skills; the figures are updated monthly. Details: method of the IT skills analysis.