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Excel freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

3.5% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Excel – 1,814 projects, rank 24 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 4.1% (+0.7 percentage points from the month before). Excel is asked for most often in Data Engineer projects: they make up 21% of the engineering projects with Excel.

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

Is Excel required or nice to have?

84% of the listings with Excel name it as a required skill. That is more often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 6.3% name it as nice to have, 10% without a clear mark.

Excel demand by month

Share of listings with Excel 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 2026312 of 7,653 projects4.1%
  2. July 2026276 of 9,884 projects2.8%
  3. August 2026307 of 10,216 projects3%
  4. September 2026373 of 10,958 projects3.4%
  5. October 2026539 of 13,054 projects4.1%

Skills asked for together with Excel

The 15 skills that listings with Excel name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Excel, 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. MS Officeall projects 5.4%33%
  2. Project Managementall projects 15%26%
  3. PowerPointall projects 1.1%25%
  4. Reportingall projects 6%22%
  5. SAPall projects 7%18%
  6. Stakeholder Managementall projects 12%17%
  7. Jiraall projects 8.5%13%
  8. Controllingall projects 1.5%12%
  9. Financial Accountingall projects 2.1%11%
  10. Forecastingall projects 1%11%
  11. Power BIall projects 1.9%11%
  12. Risk Managementall projects 5.5%10%
  13. Budget Planningall projects 2%9.5%
  14. Confluenceall projects 5.9%9.3%
  15. ERP Systemsall projects 2.2%8.7%

Typical for Excel – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are PowerPoint (25%), Forecasting (11%), Controlling (12%), MS Office (33%), Power BI (11%), Financial Accounting (11%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Project Management (26%), SAP (18%), Stakeholder Management (17%), Jira (13%), Risk Management (10%), Confluence (9.3%).

Roles asking for Excel

5.8% of the projects with Excel are engineering projects (106 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; 20% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Excel, and how often as required.

  1. Data Engineerin 1.7% of the role's projects · required 55%21%
  2. Low-Code Platform Developerin 1.8% of the role's projects · required 25%15%
  3. SAP Developerin 1.6% of the role's projects · required 56%15%

Skills related to Excel

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

How to use the data

If Excel 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 Excel 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.