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Oracle freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

1.4% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Oracle – 716 projects, rank 77 of the 100 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 1.5% (+0.3 percentage points from the month before). Oracle is asked for most often in Java Backend Developer projects: they make up 29% of the engineering projects with Oracle.

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

Is Oracle required or nice to have?

59% of the listings with Oracle name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 23% name it as nice to have, 18% without a clear mark.

Oracle demand by month

Share of listings with Oracle 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 2026146 of 7,653 projects1.9%
  2. July 2026131 of 9,884 projects1.3%
  3. August 2026103 of 10,216 projects1%
  4. September 2026134 of 10,958 projects1.2%
  5. October 2026199 of 13,054 projects1.5%

Skills asked for together with Oracle

The 15 skills that listings with Oracle name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Oracle, 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%42%
  2. REST APIsall projects 7.3%36%
  3. SQLall projects 4.8%34%
  4. PostgreSQLall projects 2.9%32%
  5. Scrumall projects 8.1%32%
  6. Gitall projects 5.1%31%
  7. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%26%
  8. Linuxall projects 4.7%26%
  9. Dockerall projects 4.8%24%
  10. CI/CDall projects 9.2%24%
  11. Spring Bootall projects 3.7%22%
  12. Jiraall projects 8.5%22%
  13. SQL Serverall projects 1.4%21%
  14. Angularall projects 2.6%20%
  15. Microservicesall projects 2.9%20%

Typical for Oracle – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are SQL Server (21%), PostgreSQL (32%), Angular (20%), SQL (34%), Microservices (20%), Java (42%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: CI/CD (24%), Jira (22%).

Roles asking for Oracle

71% of the projects with Oracle are engineering projects (507 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; 11% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Oracle, and how often as required.

  1. Java Backend Developerin 12% of the role's projects · required 66%29%
  2. Java Fullstack Developerin 10% of the role's projects · required 79%17%
  3. Data Engineerin 5.4% of the role's projects · required 45%15%
  4. C# / .NET Developerin 5.4% of the role's projects · required 62%6.7%
  5. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 1.6% of the role's projects · required 52%6.5%
  6. Angular Developerin 5.2% of the role's projects · required 50%4.3%
  7. Test Engineerin 1% of the role's projects · required 50%2.8%
  8. Python Developerin 3.5% of the role's projects · required 92%2.6%

Skills related to Oracle

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

How to use the data

If Oracle 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 Oracle 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. How Oracle compares with its alternatives: PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server: databases in demand.

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.