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GitLab freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

2.7% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name GitLab – 1,430 projects, rank 32 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 1.9% (−0.7 percentage points from the month before). GitLab is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 24% of the engineering projects with GitLab.

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

Is GitLab required or nice to have?

60% of the listings with GitLab name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 25% name it as nice to have, 15% without a clear mark.

GitLab demand by month

Share of listings with GitLab 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 2026314 of 7,653 projects4.1%
  2. July 2026306 of 9,884 projects3.1%
  3. August 2026251 of 10,216 projects2.5%
  4. September 2026289 of 10,958 projects2.6%
  5. October 2026251 of 13,054 projects1.9%

Skills asked for together with GitLab

The 15 skills that listings with GitLab name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for GitLab, 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. CI/CDall projects 9.2%54%
  2. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%37%
  3. Javaall projects 6.6%34%
  4. Scrumall projects 8.1%29%
  5. Dockerall projects 4.8%28%
  6. Jiraall projects 8.5%28%
  7. Spring Bootall projects 3.7%26%
  8. Test Automationall projects 5%25%
  9. Gitall projects 5.1%25%
  10. REST APIsall projects 7.3%24%
  11. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%23%
  12. Pythonall projects 6.9%23%
  13. Confluenceall projects 5.9%20%
  14. DevOpsall projects 4%18%
  15. TypeScriptall projects 4.3%18%

Typical for GitLab – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Spring Boot (26%), CI/CD (54%), Docker (28%), Kubernetes (37%), Java (34%), Test Automation (25%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Agile Methods (23%).

Roles asking for GitLab

88% of the projects with GitLab are engineering projects (1,256 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; 6.1% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name GitLab, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 15% of the role's projects · required 75%24%
  2. Java Backend Developerin 20% of the role's projects · required 57%20%
  3. Test Engineerin 12% of the role's projects · required 44%13%
  4. Java Fullstack Developerin 9.1% of the role's projects · required 65%5.9%
  5. Data Engineerin 5.3% of the role's projects · required 74%5.4%
  6. Angular Developerin 15% of the role's projects · required 43%5.2%
  7. Embedded C/C++ Developerin 5.4% of the role's projects · required 62%3.6%
  8. C# / .NET Developerin 6.9% of the role's projects · required 70%3.4%

Skills related to GitLab

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

How to use the data

If GitLab 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 GitLab 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.

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.