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Infrastructure as Code freelance projects in Germany 2026

2.3% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Infrastructure as Code – 1,217 projects, rank 40 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 2.3% (−0.4 percentage points from the month before). Infrastructure as Code is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 51% of the engineering projects with Infrastructure as Code.

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

Is Infrastructure as Code required or nice to have?

69% of the listings with Infrastructure as Code name it as a required skill. That is about the median of the skills of this overview (69%). 16% name it as nice to have, 15% without a clear mark.

Infrastructure as Code demand by month

Share of listings with Infrastructure as Code 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 2026217 of 7,653 projects2.8%
  2. July 2026222 of 9,884 projects2.2%
  3. August 2026170 of 10,216 projects1.7%
  4. September 2026291 of 10,958 projects2.7%
  5. October 2026295 of 13,054 projects2.3%

Skills asked for together with Infrastructure as Code

The 15 skills that listings with Infrastructure as Code name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Infrastructure as Code, 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%65%
  2. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%52%
  3. Terraformall projects 2.6%46%
  4. AWSall projects 4.1%32%
  5. Monitoringall projects 4.6%31%
  6. Pythonall projects 6.9%30%
  7. Azureall projects 4%29%
  8. DevOpsall projects 4%28%
  9. Dockerall projects 4.8%23%
  10. Automationall projects 4.5%22%
  11. GitOpsall projects 1.2%22%
  12. Grafanaall projects 2.2%21%
  13. Linuxall projects 4.7%19%
  14. Observabilityall projects 1.3%19%
  15. GitLab CI/CDall projects 2.5%19%

Typical for Infrastructure as Code – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Terraform (46%), GitOps (22%), Observability (19%), Grafana (21%), AWS (32%), GitLab CI/CD (19%).

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

Roles asking for Infrastructure as Code

91% of the projects with Infrastructure as Code are engineering projects (1,106 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; 4.1% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Infrastructure as Code, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 28% of the role's projects · required 76%51%
  2. Cloud Solution Architectin 33% of the role's projects · required 86%13%
  3. Data Engineerin 6.5% of the role's projects · required 54%7.5%
  4. ML / AI Engineerin 7.7% of the role's projects · required 57%6.1%
  5. Java Backend Developerin 4.3% of the role's projects · required 39%4.9%
  6. Security Engineerin 5.1% of the role's projects · required 79%4.7%
  7. Java Fullstack Developerin 4% of the role's projects · required 69%2.9%
  8. Python Developerin 6.2% of the role's projects · required 52%2.1%

Skills related to Infrastructure as Code

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

How to use the data

If Infrastructure as Code 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 Infrastructure as Code 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.