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GCP freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

1.3% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name GCP – 679 projects, rank 83 of the 100 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 1.1% (+0.1 percentage points from the month before). GCP is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 20% of the engineering projects with GCP.

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

Is GCP required or nice to have?

59% of the listings with GCP name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 32% name it as nice to have, 9.6% without a clear mark.

GCP demand by month

Share of listings with GCP 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 2026110 of 7,653 projects1.4%
  2. July 2026170 of 9,884 projects1.7%
  3. August 2026135 of 10,216 projects1.3%
  4. September 2026112 of 10,958 projects1%
  5. October 2026146 of 13,054 projects1.1%

Skills asked for together with GCP

The 15 skills that listings with GCP name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for GCP, 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. AWSall projects 4.1%49%
  2. Azureall projects 4%44%
  3. CI/CDall projects 9.2%40%
  4. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%36%
  5. Pythonall projects 6.9%33%
  6. Dockerall projects 4.8%26%
  7. Terraformall projects 2.6%26%
  8. DevOpsall projects 4%19%
  9. Javaall projects 6.6%17%
  10. Infrastructure as Codeall projects 2.3%16%
  11. REST APIsall projects 7.3%16%
  12. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%14%
  13. Monitoringall projects 4.6%14%
  14. Machine Learningall projects 1.1%14%
  15. Data Engineeringall projects 1.3%13%

Typical for GCP – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Machine Learning (14%), AWS (49%), Azure (44%), Data Engineering (13%), Terraform (26%), Infrastructure as Code (16%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Java (17%), REST APIs (16%), Agile Methods (14%).

Roles asking for GCP

80% of the projects with GCP are engineering projects (540 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; 5.4% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name GCP, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 5.2% of the role's projects · required 63%20%
  2. ML / AI Engineerin 9.8% of the role's projects · required 70%16%
  3. Data Engineerin 5.7% of the role's projects · required 69%15%
  4. Cloud Solution Architectin 14% of the role's projects · required 81%11%
  5. Security Engineerin 4.8% of the role's projects · required 72%11%
  6. Java Fullstack Developerin 3.8% of the role's projects · required 45%5.7%
  7. Java Backend Developerin 1.5% of the role's projects · required 74%3.5%
  8. React Developerin 4.5% of the role's projects · required 21%3.5%

Skills related to GCP

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

How to use the data

If GCP 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 GCP 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 GCP compares with its alternatives: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud: cloud providers 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.