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C freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

0.7% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name C – 359 projects, rank 143 of the 150 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 0.7% (+0.2 percentage points from the month before). C is asked for most often in Embedded C/C++ Developer projects: they make up 71% of the engineering projects with C.

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

Is C required or nice to have?

76% of the listings with C name it as a required skill. That is more often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 16% name it as nice to have, 7.8% without a clear mark.

C demand by month

Share of listings with C 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 202654 of 7,653 projects0.7%
  2. July 202685 of 9,884 projects0.9%
  3. August 202683 of 10,216 projects0.8%
  4. September 202644 of 10,958 projects0.4%
  5. October 202685 of 13,054 projects0.7%

Skills asked for together with C

The 15 skills that listings with C name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for C, 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. C++all projects 1.5%69%
  2. Embedded Software Developmentall projects 0.8%44%
  3. Pythonall projects 6.9%41%
  4. Linuxall projects 4.7%24%
  5. Gitall projects 5.1%23%
  6. Embedded Linuxall projects 0.4%20%
  7. C#all projects 2.1%15%
  8. Debuggingall projects 1.6%14%
  9. CI/CDall projects 9.2%14%
  10. Microcontrollerall projects 0.2%13%
  11. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%13%
  12. Electrical Engineeringall projects 4.6%12%
  13. Test Automationall projects 5%12%
  14. Testingall projects 4.7%12%
  15. Embedded Systemsall projects 0.3%11%

Typical for C – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Microcontroller (13%), Embedded Software Development (44%), Embedded Linux (20%), C++ (69%), Embedded Systems (11%), Debugging (14%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: CI/CD (14%), Agile Methods (13%), Electrical Engineering (12%), Test Automation (12%), Testing (12%).

Roles asking for C

97% of the projects with C are engineering projects (350 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; 6.9% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name C, and how often as required.

  1. Embedded C/C++ Developerin 26% of the role's projects · required 91%71%
  2. Test Engineerin 1.9% of the role's projects · required 59%7.7%
  3. C# / .NET Developerin 2.2% of the role's projects · required 43%4%

Skills related to C

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

How to use the data

If C 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 C 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. How C compares with its alternatives: Python, Java, SQL: programming languages in demand.

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.