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Microservices freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

2.9% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Microservices – 1,509 projects, rank 29 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 2.3% (−0.2 percentage points from the month before). Microservices is asked for most often in Java Backend Developer projects: they make up 35% of the engineering projects with Microservices.

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

Is Microservices required or nice to have?

73% of the listings with Microservices name it as a required skill. That is about the median of the skills of this overview (69%). 11% name it as nice to have, 16% without a clear mark.

Microservices demand by month

Share of listings with Microservices 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 2026292 of 7,653 projects3.8%
  2. July 2026308 of 9,884 projects3.1%
  3. August 2026290 of 10,216 projects2.8%
  4. September 2026282 of 10,958 projects2.6%
  5. October 2026306 of 13,054 projects2.3%

Skills asked for together with Microservices

The 15 skills that listings with Microservices name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Microservices, 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. Javaall projects 6.6%57%
  2. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%53%
  3. CI/CDall projects 9.2%50%
  4. REST APIsall projects 7.3%50%
  5. Spring Bootall projects 3.7%47%
  6. Dockerall projects 4.8%43%
  7. Scrumall projects 8.1%35%
  8. AWSall projects 4.1%29%
  9. PostgreSQLall projects 2.9%27%
  10. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%26%
  11. DevOpsall projects 4%25%
  12. TypeScriptall projects 4.3%25%
  13. Gitall projects 5.1%25%
  14. Test Automationall projects 5%25%
  15. Kafkaall projects 2%23%

Typical for Microservices – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Spring Boot (47%), Kafka (23%), PostgreSQL (27%), Docker (43%), Java (57%), Kubernetes (53%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Agile Methods (26%).

Roles asking for Microservices

84% of the projects with Microservices are engineering projects (1,269 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; 6.5% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Microservices, and how often as required.

  1. Java Backend Developerin 35% of the role's projects · required 82%35%
  2. Java Fullstack Developerin 34% of the role's projects · required 84%22%
  3. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 6.2% of the role's projects · required 63%9.9%
  4. C# / .NET Developerin 14% of the role's projects · required 59%6.7%
  5. Test Engineerin 4.2% of the role's projects · required 64%4.4%
  6. React Developerin 10% of the role's projects · required 52%3.3%
  7. Cloud Solution Architectin 9.4% of the role's projects · required 59%3.2%
  8. Python Developerin 9.7% of the role's projects · required 81%2.8%

Skills related to Microservices

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

How to use the data

If Microservices 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 Microservices 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.