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Jenkins freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

2% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Jenkins – 1,020 projects, rank 48 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 1.4% (−0.6 percentage points from the month before). Jenkins is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 23% of the engineering projects with Jenkins.

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

Is Jenkins required or nice to have?

64% of the listings with Jenkins name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 19% name it as nice to have, 17% without a clear mark.

Jenkins demand by month

Share of listings with Jenkins 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 2026220 of 7,653 projects2.9%
  2. July 2026206 of 9,884 projects2.1%
  3. August 2026171 of 10,216 projects1.7%
  4. September 2026218 of 10,958 projects2%
  5. October 2026186 of 13,054 projects1.4%

Skills asked for together with Jenkins

The 15 skills that listings with Jenkins name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Jenkins, 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%60%
  2. Javaall projects 6.6%47%
  3. Dockerall projects 4.8%47%
  4. Gitall projects 5.1%45%
  5. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%42%
  6. REST APIsall projects 7.3%37%
  7. Jiraall projects 8.5%35%
  8. Mavenall projects 1.3%31%
  9. Test Automationall projects 5%31%
  10. Spring Bootall projects 3.7%30%
  11. Linuxall projects 4.7%29%
  12. Scrumall projects 8.1%28%
  13. Confluenceall projects 5.9%27%
  14. GitLab CI/CDall projects 2.5%26%
  15. Microservicesall projects 2.9%25%

Typical for Jenkins – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Maven (31%), GitLab CI/CD (26%), Docker (47%), Git (45%), Microservices (25%), Spring Boot (30%).

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

Roles asking for Jenkins

95% of the projects with Jenkins are engineering projects (965 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; 5.7% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Jenkins, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 11% of the role's projects · required 78%23%
  2. Java Backend Developerin 17% of the role's projects · required 65%22%
  3. Java Fullstack Developerin 21% of the role's projects · required 62%18%
  4. Test Engineerin 8.8% of the role's projects · required 54%12%
  5. Angular Developerin 14% of the role's projects · required 71%6.1%
  6. Security Engineerin 2.6% of the role's projects · required 73%2.7%
  7. React Developerin 5.2% of the role's projects · required 86%2.3%
  8. Embedded C/C++ Developerin 2.2% of the role's projects · required 28%1.9%

Skills related to Jenkins

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

How to use the data

If Jenkins 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 Jenkins 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.