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Elasticsearch freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

0.4% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Elasticsearch – 230 projects, rank 220 of the 250 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 0.5% (+0.1 percentage points from the month before). Elasticsearch is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 49% of the engineering projects with Elasticsearch.

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

Is Elasticsearch required or nice to have?

49% of the listings with Elasticsearch name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 38% name it as nice to have, 13% without a clear mark.

Elasticsearch demand by month

Share of listings with Elasticsearch 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 202623 of 7,653 projects0.3%
  2. July 202665 of 9,884 projects0.7%
  3. August 202636 of 10,216 projects0.4%
  4. September 202641 of 10,958 projects0.4%
  5. October 202664 of 13,054 projects0.5%

Skills asked for together with Elasticsearch

The 15 skills that listings with Elasticsearch name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Elasticsearch, 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. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%49%
  2. Ansibleall projects 2.1%32%
  3. Linuxall projects 4.7%31%
  4. PostgreSQLall projects 2.9%30%
  5. CI/CDall projects 9.2%26%
  6. OpenShiftall projects 1.9%25%
  7. Grafanaall projects 2.2%25%
  8. ArgoCDall projects 1.2%24%
  9. Gitall projects 5.1%24%
  10. Terraformall projects 2.6%24%
  11. Dockerall projects 4.8%23%
  12. Monitoringall projects 4.6%23%
  13. Pythonall projects 6.9%23%
  14. Azureall projects 4%22%
  15. Javaall projects 6.6%22%

Typical for Elasticsearch – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are ArgoCD (24%), Ansible (32%), OpenShift (25%), Grafana (25%), PostgreSQL (30%), Terraform (24%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: CI/CD (26%).

Roles asking for Elasticsearch

80% of the projects with Elasticsearch are engineering projects (184 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; 13% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Elasticsearch, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 4.3% of the role's projects · required 54%49%
  2. Security Engineerin 1.8% of the role's projects · required 55%12%
  3. Java Backend Developerin 1.5% of the role's projects · required 26%10%
  4. Java Fullstack Developerin 1.4% of the role's projects · required 82%6%

Skills related to Elasticsearch

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

How to use the data

If Elasticsearch 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 Elasticsearch 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 Elasticsearch 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.