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Microsoft 365 freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

2.4% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Microsoft 365 – 1,243 projects, rank 39 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 2.2% (−0.4 percentage points from the month before). Microsoft 365 is asked for most often in Low-Code Platform Developer projects: they make up 37% of the engineering projects with Microsoft 365.

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

Is Microsoft 365 required or nice to have?

80% of the listings with Microsoft 365 name it as a required skill. That is more often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 8.9% name it as nice to have, 11% without a clear mark.

Microsoft 365 demand by month

Share of listings with Microsoft 365 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 2026192 of 7,653 projects2.5%
  2. July 2026253 of 9,884 projects2.6%
  3. August 2026228 of 10,216 projects2.2%
  4. September 2026283 of 10,958 projects2.6%
  5. October 2026282 of 13,054 projects2.2%

Skills asked for together with Microsoft 365

The 15 skills that listings with Microsoft 365 name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Microsoft 365, 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. SharePointall projects 1.8%24%
  2. Microsoft Teamsall projects 1.2%20%
  3. Active Directoryall projects 2.4%20%
  4. Entra IDall projects 1.1%19%
  5. Project Managementall projects 15%19%
  6. Azureall projects 4%18%
  7. Microsoft Intuneall projects 0.6%18%
  8. Stakeholder Managementall projects 12%18%
  9. IT Supportall projects 2.5%15%
  10. Documentationall projects 10%14%
  11. Exchange Onlineall projects 0.5%14%
  12. Jiraall projects 8.5%13%
  13. 2nd Level Supportall projects 1.7%12%
  14. Windowsall projects 1.8%11%
  15. IT Securityall projects 3.5%10%

Typical for Microsoft 365 – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Microsoft Intune (18%), Exchange Online (14%), Entra ID (19%), Microsoft Teams (20%), SharePoint (24%), Active Directory (20%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Project Management (19%), Stakeholder Management (18%), Documentation (14%), Jira (13%), IT Security (10%).

Roles asking for Microsoft 365

12% of the projects with Microsoft 365 are engineering projects (150 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; 3.3% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Microsoft 365, and how often as required.

  1. Low-Code Platform Developerin 6.3% of the role's projects · required 73%37%
  2. Security Engineerin 2.5% of the role's projects · required 92%17%
  3. Cloud Solution Architectin 3% of the role's projects · required 92%8.7%
  4. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 0.6% of the role's projects · required 42%8%
  5. ML / AI Engineerin 1.4% of the role's projects · required 50%8%
  6. Data Engineerin 0.9% of the role's projects · required 64%7.3%

Skills related to Microsoft 365

Skills of this overview that are asked for together with Microsoft 365 much more often than chance would predict.

How to use the data

If Microsoft 365 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 Microsoft 365 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.