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AWS freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

4.1% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name AWS – 2,113 projects, rank 19 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 3.6% (−0.2 percentage points from the month before). AWS is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 23% of the engineering projects with AWS.

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

Is AWS required or nice to have?

66% of the listings with AWS name it as a required skill. That is about the median of the skills of this overview (69%). 24% name it as nice to have, 10% without a clear mark.

AWS demand by month

Share of listings with AWS 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 2026349 of 7,653 projects4.6%
  2. July 2026515 of 9,884 projects5.2%
  3. August 2026340 of 10,216 projects3.3%
  4. September 2026417 of 10,958 projects3.8%
  5. October 2026472 of 13,054 projects3.6%

Skills asked for together with AWS

The 15 skills that listings with AWS name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for AWS, 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. CI/CDall projects 9.2%46%
  2. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%41%
  3. Dockerall projects 4.8%31%
  4. Pythonall projects 6.9%29%
  5. Javaall projects 6.6%26%
  6. Azureall projects 4%25%
  7. TypeScriptall projects 4.3%24%
  8. Scrumall projects 8.1%23%
  9. Spring Bootall projects 3.7%23%
  10. REST APIsall projects 7.3%21%
  11. Terraformall projects 2.6%21%
  12. Microservicesall projects 2.9%21%
  13. DevOpsall projects 4%21%
  14. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%20%
  15. GitLab CI/CDall projects 2.5%20%

Typical for AWS – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Terraform (21%), GitLab CI/CD (20%), Microservices (21%), Docker (31%), Azure (25%), Spring Boot (23%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Scrum (23%), REST APIs (21%), Agile Methods (20%).

Roles asking for AWS

85% of the projects with AWS are engineering projects (1,793 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; 7.8% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name AWS, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 20% of the role's projects · required 78%23%
  2. Java Backend Developerin 23% of the role's projects · required 49%16%
  3. Data Engineerin 13% of the role's projects · required 81%9.3%
  4. Cloud Solution Architectin 38% of the role's projects · required 82%9.2%
  5. ML / AI Engineerin 17% of the role's projects · required 73%8.5%
  6. Java Fullstack Developerin 14% of the role's projects · required 77%6.5%
  7. Security Engineerin 9.1% of the role's projects · required 76%5.2%
  8. React Developerin 17% of the role's projects · required 50%3.9%

Skills related to AWS

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

How to use the data

If AWS 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 AWS 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.