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MS Office freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

5.4% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name MS Office – 2,815 projects, rank 11 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 5.3% (+0.1 percentage points from the month before).

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

Is MS Office required or nice to have?

85% of the listings with MS Office name it as a required skill. That is more often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 4.4% name it as nice to have, 10% without a clear mark.

MS Office demand by month

Share of listings with MS Office 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 2026440 of 7,653 projects5.7%
  2. July 2026573 of 9,884 projects5.8%
  3. August 2026528 of 10,216 projects5.2%
  4. September 2026567 of 10,958 projects5.2%
  5. October 2026692 of 13,054 projects5.3%

Skills asked for together with MS Office

The 15 skills that listings with MS Office name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for MS Office, 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. Project Managementall projects 15%31%
  2. Excelall projects 3.5%21%
  3. SAPall projects 7%17%
  4. Jiraall projects 8.5%14%
  5. Stakeholder Managementall projects 12%12%
  6. Civil Engineeringall projects 3.4%12%
  7. Reportingall projects 6%11%
  8. MS Projectall projects 1.3%11%
  9. Documentationall projects 10%11%
  10. PowerPointall projects 1.1%10%
  11. Construction Managementall projects 4.5%9.9%
  12. Electrical Engineeringall projects 4.6%9.9%
  13. Risk Managementall projects 5.5%9.6%
  14. Confluenceall projects 5.9%8.5%
  15. SharePointall projects 1.8%7.9%

Typical for MS Office – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are PowerPoint (10%), MS Project (11%), Excel (21%), SharePoint (7.9%), Civil Engineering (12%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Project Management (31%), SAP (17%), Jira (14%), Stakeholder Management (12%), Reporting (11%), Documentation (11%).

Roles asking for MS Office

3.4% of the projects with MS Office are engineering projects (97 projects) – too few to divide them among roles. The others are e.g. consulting, project management, IT operations or projects outside software development.

Skills related to MS Office

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

How to use the data

If MS Office 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 MS Office 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.