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FastAPI freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

0.5% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name FastAPI – 271 projects, rank 188 of the 200 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 0.6% (0.0 percentage points from the month before). FastAPI is asked for most often in Python Developer projects: they make up 41% of the engineering projects with FastAPI.

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

Is FastAPI required or nice to have?

68% of the listings with FastAPI name it as a required skill. That is about the median of the skills of this overview (69%). 22% name it as nice to have, 10% without a clear mark.

FastAPI demand by month

Share of listings with FastAPI 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 202642 of 7,653 projects0.5%
  2. July 202643 of 9,884 projects0.4%
  3. August 202646 of 10,216 projects0.5%
  4. September 202662 of 10,958 projects0.6%
  5. October 202676 of 13,054 projects0.6%

Skills asked for together with FastAPI

The 15 skills that listings with FastAPI name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for FastAPI, 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. Pythonall projects 6.9%93%
  2. CI/CDall projects 9.2%51%
  3. Dockerall projects 4.8%48%
  4. REST APIsall projects 7.3%43%
  5. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%34%
  6. PostgreSQLall projects 2.9%33%
  7. TypeScriptall projects 4.3%30%
  8. SQLall projects 4.8%30%
  9. Reactall projects 2.2%25%
  10. AWSall projects 4.1%23%
  11. Angularall projects 2.6%20%
  12. Scrumall projects 8.1%20%
  13. Gitall projects 5.1%19%
  14. LLMall projects 1.6%18%
  15. Helmall projects 1.7%18%

Typical for FastAPI – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Python (93%), LLM (18%), PostgreSQL (33%), React (25%), Helm (18%), Docker (48%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Scrum (20%).

Roles asking for FastAPI

100% of the projects with FastAPI are engineering projects (271 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; 1.5% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name FastAPI, and how often as required.

  1. Python Developerin 30% of the role's projects · required 74%41%
  2. ML / AI Engineerin 5.5% of the role's projects · required 84%18%
  3. Data Engineerin 3.4% of the role's projects · required 33%18%
  4. Angular Developerin 8.3% of the role's projects · required 89%13%
  5. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 0.5% of the role's projects · required 60%3.7%

Skills related to FastAPI

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

How to use the data

If FastAPI 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 FastAPI 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 FastAPI compares with its alternatives: Python, Java, SQL: programming languages 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.