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Go freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

1% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Go – 546 projects, rank 103 of the 150 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 0.9% (0.0 percentage points from the month before). Go is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 45% of the engineering projects with Go.

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

Is Go required or nice to have?

62% of the listings with Go name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 28% name it as nice to have, 10% without a clear mark.

Go demand by month

Share of listings with Go 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 202656 of 7,653 projects0.7%
  2. July 2026141 of 9,884 projects1.4%
  3. August 2026126 of 10,216 projects1.2%
  4. September 202696 of 10,958 projects0.9%
  5. October 2026115 of 13,054 projects0.9%

Skills asked for together with Go

The 15 skills that listings with Go name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Go, 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%61%
  2. Pythonall projects 6.9%49%
  3. CI/CDall projects 9.2%41%
  4. Javaall projects 6.6%25%
  5. Terraformall projects 2.6%24%
  6. Linuxall projects 4.7%24%
  7. AWSall projects 4.1%23%
  8. Infrastructure as Codeall projects 2.3%23%
  9. DevOpsall projects 4%22%
  10. Grafanaall projects 2.2%21%
  11. Dockerall projects 4.8%21%
  12. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%18%
  13. GitLaball projects 2.7%18%
  14. Monitoringall projects 4.6%17%
  15. GitOpsall projects 1.2%17%

Typical for Go – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are GitOps (17%), Infrastructure as Code (23%), Grafana (21%), Terraform (24%), Kubernetes (61%), Python (49%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Agile Methods (18%).

Roles asking for Go

95% of the projects with Go are engineering projects (521 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; 22% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Go, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 11% of the role's projects · required 60%45%
  2. Java Backend Developerin 2.6% of the role's projects · required 39%6.3%
  3. ML / AI Engineerin 3% of the role's projects · required 44%5.2%
  4. Security Engineerin 2% of the role's projects · required 88%4.6%
  5. Test Engineerin 1.3% of the role's projects · required 32%3.6%
  6. Java Fullstack Developerin 1.7% of the role's projects · required 0%2.7%
  7. Embedded C/C++ Developerin 1.3% of the role's projects · required 85%2.5%
  8. Cloud Solution Architectin 2.4% of the role's projects · required 64%2.1%

Skills related to Go

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

How to use the data

If Go 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 Go 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 Go 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.