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Power BI freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

1.9% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Power BI – 970 projects, rank 52 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 1.9% (+0.5 percentage points from the month before). Power BI is asked for most often in Data Engineer projects: they make up 72% of the engineering projects with Power BI.

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

Is Power BI required or nice to have?

60% of the listings with Power BI name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 28% name it as nice to have, 11% without a clear mark.

Power BI demand by month

Share of listings with Power BI 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 2026173 of 7,653 projects2.3%
  2. July 2026163 of 9,884 projects1.6%
  3. August 2026221 of 10,216 projects2.2%
  4. September 2026159 of 10,958 projects1.5%
  5. October 2026250 of 13,054 projects1.9%

Skills asked for together with Power BI

The 15 skills that listings with Power BI name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Power BI, 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. SQLall projects 4.8%35%
  2. Data Modelingall projects 3.6%33%
  3. Reportingall projects 6%25%
  4. Microsoft Fabricall projects 0.7%21%
  5. Data Analyticsall projects 1.9%21%
  6. Excelall projects 3.5%21%
  7. Pythonall projects 6.9%18%
  8. Stakeholder Managementall projects 12%17%
  9. Azureall projects 4%16%
  10. DAXall projects 0.3%15%
  11. ETLall projects 1.4%14%
  12. Project Managementall projects 15%14%
  13. Databricksall projects 1.3%12%
  14. Power Appsall projects 0.5%11%
  15. Power Automateall projects 0.6%11%

Typical for Power BI – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are DAX (15%), Microsoft Fabric (21%), Power Apps (11%), Power Automate (11%), Data Analytics (21%), ETL (14%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Python (18%), Stakeholder Management (17%), Project Management (14%).

Roles asking for Power BI

50% of the projects with Power BI are engineering projects (489 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; 0.6% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Power BI, and how often as required.

  1. Data Engineerin 27% of the role's projects · required 75%72%
  2. Low-Code Platform Developerin 10% of the role's projects · required 43%18%
  3. ML / AI Engineerin 1.4% of the role's projects · required 42%2.5%
  4. C# / .NET Developerin 1.8% of the role's projects · required 55%2.2%

Skills related to Power BI

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

How to use the data

If Power BI 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 Power BI 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.