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Azure DevOps freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

1.9% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Azure DevOps – 997 projects, rank 50 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 1.7% (−0.4 percentage points from the month before). Azure DevOps is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 19% of the engineering projects with Azure DevOps.

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

Is Azure DevOps required or nice to have?

55% of the listings with Azure DevOps name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 31% name it as nice to have, 14% without a clear mark.

Azure DevOps demand by month

Share of listings with Azure DevOps 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 2026211 of 7,653 projects2.8%
  2. July 2026189 of 9,884 projects1.9%
  3. August 2026141 of 10,216 projects1.4%
  4. September 2026232 of 10,958 projects2.1%
  5. October 2026218 of 13,054 projects1.7%

Skills asked for together with Azure DevOps

The 15 skills that listings with Azure DevOps name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Azure DevOps, 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%50%
  2. Azureall projects 4%37%
  3. Pythonall projects 6.9%25%
  4. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%25%
  5. REST APIsall projects 7.3%24%
  6. Gitall projects 5.1%23%
  7. C#all projects 2.1%22%
  8. Scrumall projects 8.1%22%
  9. Jiraall projects 8.5%21%
  10. .NETall projects 1.6%21%
  11. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%20%
  12. Terraformall projects 2.6%20%
  13. Dockerall projects 4.8%18%
  14. Monitoringall projects 4.6%16%
  15. Test Automationall projects 5%15%

Typical for Azure DevOps – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are .NET (21%), C# (22%), Azure (37%), Terraform (20%), CI/CD (50%), Git (23%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Agile Methods (25%), Scrum (22%), Jira (21%), Kubernetes (20%).

Roles asking for Azure DevOps

77% of the projects with Azure DevOps are engineering projects (763 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; 2.5% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Azure DevOps, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 7.2% of the role's projects · required 67%19%
  2. C# / .NET Developerin 23% of the role's projects · required 51%19%
  3. Test Engineerin 5.3% of the role's projects · required 54%9.4%
  4. Data Engineerin 5% of the role's projects · required 58%8.4%
  5. Low-Code Platform Developerin 6.1% of the role's projects · required 66%6.9%
  6. ML / AI Engineerin 5.8% of the role's projects · required 55%6.7%
  7. Cloud Solution Architectin 12% of the role's projects · required 68%6.6%
  8. Python Developerin 10% of the role's projects · required 34%5%

Skills related to Azure DevOps

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

How to use the data

If Azure DevOps 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 Azure DevOps 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.