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ITIL freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

3.3% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name ITIL – 1,738 projects, rank 25 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 3.1% (−0.2 percentage points from the month before). ITIL is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 39% of the engineering projects with ITIL.

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

Is ITIL required or nice to have?

64% of the listings with ITIL 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, 8.5% without a clear mark.

ITIL demand by month

Share of listings with ITIL 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 2026271 of 7,653 projects3.5%
  2. July 2026404 of 9,884 projects4.1%
  3. August 2026292 of 10,216 projects2.9%
  4. September 2026358 of 10,958 projects3.3%
  5. October 2026401 of 13,054 projects3.1%

Skills asked for together with ITIL

The 15 skills that listings with ITIL name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for ITIL, 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. IT Service Managementall projects 1.9%25%
  2. Project Managementall projects 15%23%
  3. Incident Managementall projects 3%22%
  4. Change Managementall projects 4.9%22%
  5. Jiraall projects 8.5%20%
  6. Stakeholder Managementall projects 12%19%
  7. Scrumall projects 8.1%17%
  8. ServiceNowall projects 2%15%
  9. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%14%
  10. Linuxall projects 4.7%14%
  11. Confluenceall projects 5.9%14%
  12. Monitoringall projects 4.6%12%
  13. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%12%
  14. Problem Managementall projects 0.9%11%
  15. Release Managementall projects 1.8%10%

Typical for ITIL – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are IT Service Management (25%), Problem Management (11%), ServiceNow (15%), Incident Management (22%), Release Management (10%), Change Management (22%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Project Management (23%), Jira (20%), Stakeholder Management (19%), Scrum (17%), Agile Methods (14%), Confluence (14%).

Roles asking for ITIL

20% of the projects with ITIL are engineering projects (349 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; 6.9% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name ITIL, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 6.7% of the role's projects · required 56%39%
  2. Low-Code Platform Developerin 7% of the role's projects · required 74%17%
  3. Security Engineerin 3.6% of the role's projects · required 22%11%
  4. Test Engineerin 1.3% of the role's projects · required 56%5.2%
  5. Java Backend Developerin 1.2% of the role's projects · required 33%4.3%
  6. C# / .NET Developerin 2.1% of the role's projects · required 46%3.7%
  7. ML / AI Engineerin 1.5% of the role's projects · required 38%3.7%

Skills related to ITIL

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

How to use the data

If ITIL 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 ITIL 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.