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DevOps freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

4% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name DevOps – 2,103 projects, rank 20 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 3.3% (−0.7 percentage points from the month before). DevOps is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 33% of the engineering projects with DevOps.

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

Is DevOps required or nice to have?

60% of the listings with DevOps name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 16% name it as nice to have, 24% without a clear mark.

DevOps demand by month

Share of listings with 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 2026448 of 7,653 projects5.9%
  2. July 2026406 of 9,884 projects4.1%
  3. August 2026322 of 10,216 projects3.2%
  4. September 2026440 of 10,958 projects4%
  5. October 2026436 of 13,054 projects3.3%

Skills asked for together with DevOps

The 15 skills that listings with DevOps name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for 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%56%
  2. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%39%
  3. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%29%
  4. Scrumall projects 8.1%28%
  5. Javaall projects 6.6%26%
  6. Dockerall projects 4.8%22%
  7. REST APIsall projects 7.3%21%
  8. AWSall projects 4.1%21%
  9. Spring Bootall projects 3.7%20%
  10. Pythonall projects 6.9%19%
  11. Microservicesall projects 2.9%18%
  12. Monitoringall projects 4.6%18%
  13. Test Automationall projects 5%17%
  14. TypeScriptall projects 4.3%16%
  15. Jiraall projects 8.5%16%

Typical for DevOps – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Microservices (18%), CI/CD (56%), Spring Boot (20%), Kubernetes (39%), AWS (21%), Docker (22%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: REST APIs (21%), Python (19%), Jira (16%).

Roles asking for DevOps

78% of the projects with DevOps are engineering projects (1,650 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; 7.2% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name DevOps, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 26% of the role's projects · required 77%33%
  2. Java Backend Developerin 18% of the role's projects · required 55%14%
  3. Java Fullstack Developerin 17% of the role's projects · required 73%8.2%
  4. Data Engineerin 6.7% of the role's projects · required 52%5.2%
  5. Security Engineerin 7% of the role's projects · required 55%4.3%
  6. Angular Developerin 17% of the role's projects · required 51%4.2%
  7. C# / .NET Developerin 11% of the role's projects · required 51%4.2%
  8. ML / AI Engineerin 7.4% of the role's projects · required 57%3.9%

Skills related to DevOps

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

How to use the data

If 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 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.