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C# freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

2.1% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name C# – 1,092 projects, rank 45 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 1.4% (−0.5 percentage points from the month before). C# is asked for most often in C# / .NET Developer projects: they make up 58% 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?

71% of the listings with C# name it as a required skill. That is about the median of the skills of this overview (69%). 13% name it as nice to have, 16% 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 2026243 of 7,653 projects3.2%
  2. July 2026239 of 9,884 projects2.4%
  3. August 2026178 of 10,216 projects1.7%
  4. September 2026215 of 10,958 projects2%
  5. October 2026189 of 13,054 projects1.4%

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. .NETall projects 1.6%62%
  2. REST APIsall projects 7.3%30%
  3. CI/CDall projects 9.2%29%
  4. Gitall projects 5.1%22%
  5. Azure DevOpsall projects 1.9%20%
  6. Pythonall projects 6.9%20%
  7. Azureall projects 4%19%
  8. SQL Serverall projects 1.4%18%
  9. TypeScriptall projects 4.3%17%
  10. Scrumall projects 8.1%17%
  11. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%16%
  12. Software Architectureall projects 4%15%
  13. Test Automationall projects 5%15%
  14. Javaall projects 6.6%13%
  15. SQLall projects 4.8%13%

Typical for C# – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are .NET (62%), SQL Server (18%), Azure DevOps (20%), Azure (19%), Git (22%), REST APIs (30%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Python (20%), Scrum (17%), Agile Methods (16%), Test Automation (15%), Java (13%), SQL (13%).

Roles asking for C#

91% of the projects with C# are engineering projects (999 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; 6.1% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name C#, and how often as required.

  1. C# / .NET Developerin 93% of the role's projects · required 86%58%
  2. Test Engineerin 6.2% of the role's projects · required 58%8.4%
  3. Low-Code Platform Developerin 8.5% of the role's projects · required 82%7.4%
  4. Embedded C/C++ Developerin 6% of the role's projects · required 50%5%
  5. ML / AI Engineerin 4.3% of the role's projects · required 58%3.8%
  6. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 1% of the role's projects · required 40%2%
  7. Angular Developerin 4.3% of the role's projects · required 56%1.8%
  8. Security Engineerin 1.6% of the role's projects · required 69%1.6%

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.

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.