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Microsoft Fabric freelance projects in Germany 2026

0.7% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Microsoft Fabric – 340 projects, rank 149 of the 150 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 0.7% (−0.1 percentage points from the month before). Microsoft Fabric is asked for most often in Data Engineer projects: they make up 79% of the engineering projects with Microsoft Fabric.

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

Is Microsoft Fabric required or nice to have?

70% of the listings with Microsoft Fabric name it as a required skill. That is about the median of the skills of this overview (69%). 24% name it as nice to have, 5.9% without a clear mark.

Microsoft Fabric demand by month

Share of listings with Microsoft Fabric 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 202660 of 7,653 projects0.8%
  2. July 202643 of 9,884 projects0.4%
  3. August 202669 of 10,216 projects0.7%
  4. September 202680 of 10,958 projects0.7%
  5. October 202686 of 13,054 projects0.7%

Skills asked for together with Microsoft Fabric

The 15 skills that listings with Microsoft Fabric name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Microsoft Fabric, 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. Power BIall projects 1.9%61%
  2. SQLall projects 4.8%44%
  3. Data Modelingall projects 3.6%41%
  4. Azureall projects 4%36%
  5. Pythonall projects 6.9%34%
  6. ETLall projects 1.4%28%
  7. Data Engineeringall projects 1.3%25%
  8. DAXall projects 0.3%25%
  9. Databricksall projects 1.3%21%
  10. Data Analyticsall projects 1.9%19%
  11. Data Lakehouse Architectureall projects 0.4%18%
  12. CI/CDall projects 9.2%17%
  13. PySparkall projects 0.5%16%
  14. Data Architectureall projects 0.9%14%
  15. Data Integrationall projects 0.9%14%

Typical for Microsoft Fabric – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are DAX (25%), Data Lakehouse Architecture (18%), Power BI (61%), PySpark (16%), Data Engineering (25%), ETL (28%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: CI/CD (17%).

Roles asking for Microsoft Fabric

85% of the projects with Microsoft Fabric are engineering projects (289 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; 0% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Microsoft Fabric, and how often as required.

  1. Data Engineerin 16% of the role's projects · required 82%79%
  2. Low-Code Platform Developerin 2.2% of the role's projects · required 13%8%
  3. React Developerin 3.1% of the role's projects · required 15%4.5%
  4. ML / AI Engineerin 1.1% of the role's projects · required 70%3.5%

Skills related to Microsoft Fabric

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

How to use the data

If Microsoft Fabric 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 Fabric projects or try it now.

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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.