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Databricks freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

1.3% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Databricks – 673 projects, rank 84 of the 100 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 1.5% (+0.1 percentage points from the month before). Databricks is asked for most often in Data Engineer projects: they make up 62% of the engineering projects with Databricks.

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

Is Databricks required or nice to have?

70% of the listings with Databricks name it as a required skill. That is about the median of the skills of this overview (69%). 23% name it as nice to have, 7.1% without a clear mark.

Databricks demand by month

Share of listings with Databricks 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 202696 of 7,653 projects1.3%
  2. July 2026117 of 9,884 projects1.2%
  3. August 2026101 of 10,216 projects1%
  4. September 2026158 of 10,958 projects1.4%
  5. October 2026200 of 13,054 projects1.5%

Skills asked for together with Databricks

The 15 skills that listings with Databricks name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Databricks, 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. Azureall projects 4%52%
  2. Pythonall projects 6.9%51%
  3. SQLall projects 4.8%46%
  4. Data Modelingall projects 3.6%36%
  5. CI/CDall projects 9.2%34%
  6. Data Engineeringall projects 1.3%30%
  7. ETLall projects 1.4%25%
  8. PySparkall projects 0.5%24%
  9. Apache Sparkall projects 0.6%22%
  10. Terraformall projects 2.6%19%
  11. Delta Lakeall projects 0.3%19%
  12. Data Lakehouse Architectureall projects 0.4%19%
  13. Gitall projects 5.1%18%
  14. Power BIall projects 1.9%18%
  15. Infrastructure as Codeall projects 2.3%17%

Typical for Databricks – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Delta Lake (19%), Data Lakehouse Architecture (19%), PySpark (24%), Apache Spark (22%), Data Engineering (30%), ETL (25%).

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

Roles asking for Databricks

87% of the projects with Databricks are engineering projects (584 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; 0.9% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Databricks, and how often as required.

  1. Data Engineerin 26% of the role's projects · required 79%62%
  2. ML / AI Engineerin 13% of the role's projects · required 75%21%
  3. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 1.8% of the role's projects · required 64%6.7%
  4. Cloud Solution Architectin 4.2% of the role's projects · required 68%3.3%
  5. C# / .NET Developerin 2.1% of the role's projects · required 0%2.2%

Skills related to Databricks

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

How to use the data

If Databricks 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 Databricks 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 Databricks compares with its alternatives: PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server: databases 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.