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Ansible freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

2.1% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Ansible – 1,106 projects, rank 44 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 2.1% (−0.5 percentage points from the month before). Ansible is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 77% of the engineering projects with Ansible.

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

Is Ansible required or nice to have?

70% of the listings with Ansible name it as a required skill. That is about the median of the skills of this overview (69%). 21% name it as nice to have, 9.8% without a clear mark.

Ansible demand by month

Share of listings with Ansible 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 2026154 of 7,653 projects2%
  2. July 2026200 of 9,884 projects2%
  3. August 2026191 of 10,216 projects1.9%
  4. September 2026285 of 10,958 projects2.6%
  5. October 2026269 of 13,054 projects2.1%

Skills asked for together with Ansible

The 15 skills that listings with Ansible name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Ansible, 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. Linuxall projects 4.7%58%
  2. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%44%
  3. Terraformall projects 2.6%37%
  4. Pythonall projects 6.9%29%
  5. CI/CDall projects 9.2%28%
  6. Automationall projects 4.5%24%
  7. Dockerall projects 4.8%24%
  8. Monitoringall projects 4.6%23%
  9. Gitall projects 5.1%22%
  10. Bashall projects 1.4%21%
  11. Infrastructure as Codeall projects 2.3%20%
  12. Grafanaall projects 2.2%16%
  13. OpenShiftall projects 1.9%16%
  14. Networkingall projects 3.1%16%
  15. Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall projects 0.6%15%

Typical for Ansible – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Red Hat Enterprise Linux (15%), Bash (21%), Terraform (37%), Linux (58%), Infrastructure as Code (20%), OpenShift (16%).

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

Roles asking for Ansible

65% of the projects with Ansible are engineering projects (719 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; 3.1% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Ansible, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 27% of the role's projects · required 74%77%
  2. Security Engineerin 4.4% of the role's projects · required 67%6.3%
  3. Angular Developerin 5% of the role's projects · required 57%2.9%
  4. Cloud Solution Architectin 4.8% of the role's projects · required 67%2.9%
  5. Low-Code Platform Developerin 2.2% of the role's projects · required 89%2.6%
  6. Python Developerin 3.5% of the role's projects · required 46%1.8%

Skills related to Ansible

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

How to use the data

If Ansible 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 Ansible projects or try it now.

All skills compared: Most in-demand IT skills in German freelance projects. Which skills form clusters: Which skills belong together? Which skills are in particular demand in Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt and other cities: IT freelance projects by city.

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.