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Kanban freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

2.8% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Kanban – 1,479 projects, rank 30 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 3.1% (+0.3 percentage points from the month before). Kanban is asked for most often in Java Backend Developer projects: they make up 17% of the engineering projects with Kanban.

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

Is Kanban required or nice to have?

60% of the listings with Kanban name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 24% name it as nice to have, 17% without a clear mark.

Kanban demand by month

Share of listings with Kanban 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 2026314 of 7,653 projects4.1%
  2. July 2026239 of 9,884 projects2.4%
  3. August 2026188 of 10,216 projects1.8%
  4. September 2026313 of 10,958 projects2.9%
  5. October 2026410 of 13,054 projects3.1%

Skills asked for together with Kanban

The 15 skills that listings with Kanban name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Kanban, 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. Scrumall projects 8.1%93%
  2. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%44%
  3. Jiraall projects 8.5%40%
  4. CI/CDall projects 9.2%30%
  5. Confluenceall projects 5.9%30%
  6. Javaall projects 6.6%26%
  7. Gitall projects 5.1%25%
  8. REST APIsall projects 7.3%24%
  9. SAFeall projects 4%23%
  10. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%21%
  11. TypeScriptall projects 4.3%18%
  12. Stakeholder Managementall projects 12%17%
  13. DevOpsall projects 4%16%
  14. Test Automationall projects 5%16%
  15. JavaScriptall projects 2.9%14%

Typical for Kanban – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Scrum (93%), SAFe (23%), Confluence (30%), Git (25%), JavaScript (14%), Agile Methods (44%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Kubernetes (21%), Stakeholder Management (17%).

Roles asking for Kanban

57% of the projects with Kanban are engineering projects (844 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; 9.1% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Kanban, and how often as required.

  1. Java Backend Developerin 11% of the role's projects · required 44%17%
  2. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 6.6% of the role's projects · required 49%16%
  3. Java Fullstack Developerin 12% of the role's projects · required 71%12%
  4. Test Engineerin 6.5% of the role's projects · required 54%10%
  5. Low-Code Platform Developerin 6.1% of the role's projects · required 30%6.3%
  6. SAP Developerin 4.2% of the role's projects · required 35%5.1%
  7. Angular Developerin 10% of the role's projects · required 45%5%
  8. Data Engineerin 3.2% of the role's projects · required 56%4.9%

Skills related to Kanban

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

How to use the data

If Kanban 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 Kanban 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.