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Grafana freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

2.2% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Grafana – 1,155 projects, rank 42 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 2.2% (0.0 percentage points from the month before). Grafana is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 52% of the engineering projects with Grafana.

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

Is Grafana required or nice to have?

48% of the listings with Grafana name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 41% name it as nice to have, 11% without a clear mark.

Grafana demand by month

Share of listings with Grafana 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 2026146 of 7,653 projects1.9%
  2. July 2026238 of 9,884 projects2.4%
  3. August 2026224 of 10,216 projects2.2%
  4. September 2026242 of 10,958 projects2.2%
  5. October 2026285 of 13,054 projects2.2%

Skills asked for together with Grafana

The 15 skills that listings with Grafana name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Grafana, 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%73%
  2. Prometheusall projects 1.4%58%
  3. CI/CDall projects 9.2%48%
  4. Monitoringall projects 4.6%41%
  5. Dockerall projects 4.8%37%
  6. AWSall projects 4.1%35%
  7. Javaall projects 6.6%31%
  8. GitLab CI/CDall projects 2.5%30%
  9. Terraformall projects 2.6%26%
  10. Jiraall projects 8.5%26%
  11. Spring Bootall projects 3.7%26%
  12. Helmall projects 1.7%25%
  13. Microservicesall projects 2.9%24%
  14. REST APIsall projects 7.3%24%
  15. Pythonall projects 6.9%23%

Typical for Grafana – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Prometheus (58%), Helm (25%), GitLab CI/CD (30%), Kubernetes (73%), Terraform (26%), Monitoring (41%).

All of the most frequent companion skills are typical for this skill.

Roles asking for Grafana

87% of the projects with Grafana are engineering projects (1,000 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; 2.3% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Grafana, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 26% of the role's projects · required 65%52%
  2. Java Backend Developerin 13% of the role's projects · required 11%16%
  3. Java Fullstack Developerin 10% of the role's projects · required 21%8.2%
  4. Test Engineerin 4% of the role's projects · required 59%5.4%
  5. Security Engineerin 2.7% of the role's projects · required 52%2.7%
  6. ML / AI Engineerin 2.7% of the role's projects · required 46%2.4%
  7. Cloud Solution Architectin 5.3% of the role's projects · required 52%2.3%
  8. React Developerin 4.8% of the role's projects · required 25%2%

Skills related to Grafana

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

How to use the data

If Grafana 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 Grafana 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.