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.NET freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

1.6% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name .NET – 854 projects, rank 60 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 1.5% (0.0 percentage points from the month before). .NET is asked for most often in C# / .NET Developer projects: they make up 65% of the engineering projects with .NET.

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

Is .NET required or nice to have?

75% of the listings with .NET name it as a required skill. That is more often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 10% name it as nice to have, 15% without a clear mark.

.NET demand by month

Share of listings with .NET 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 2026190 of 7,653 projects2.5%
  2. July 2026158 of 9,884 projects1.6%
  3. August 2026116 of 10,216 projects1.1%
  4. September 2026171 of 10,958 projects1.6%
  5. October 2026199 of 13,054 projects1.5%

Skills asked for together with .NET

The 15 skills that listings with .NET name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for .NET, 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 2.1%79%
  2. REST APIsall projects 7.3%38%
  3. CI/CDall projects 9.2%31%
  4. Azureall projects 4%26%
  5. Azure DevOpsall projects 1.9%24%
  6. Gitall projects 5.1%22%
  7. SQL Serverall projects 1.4%22%
  8. Scrumall projects 8.1%20%
  9. Software Architectureall projects 4%19%
  10. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%17%
  11. Angularall projects 2.6%16%
  12. TypeScriptall projects 4.3%16%
  13. ASP.NET Coreall projects 0.4%15%
  14. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%15%
  15. Entity Framework Coreall projects 0.3%14%

Typical for .NET – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Entity Framework Core (14%), ASP.NET Core (15%), C# (79%), SQL Server (22%), Azure DevOps (24%), Azure (26%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Scrum (20%), Kubernetes (17%), Agile Methods (15%).

Roles asking for .NET

89% of the projects with .NET are engineering projects (762 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; 3% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name .NET, and how often as required.

  1. C# / .NET Developerin 80% of the role's projects · required 86%65%
  2. Low-Code Platform Developerin 5.7% of the role's projects · required 86%6.6%
  3. Cloud Solution Architectin 7.8% of the role's projects · required 71%4.5%
  4. Test Engineerin 1.8% of the role's projects · required 58%3.1%
  5. Angular Developerin 5.2% of the role's projects · required 18%2.9%
  6. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 1% of the role's projects · required 43%2.8%
  7. ML / AI Engineerin 2.3% of the role's projects · required 90%2.6%
  8. Security Engineerin 1.9% of the role's projects · required 47%2.5%

Skills related to .NET

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

How to use the data

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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.