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PowerShell freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

1.3% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name PowerShell – 693 projects, rank 80 of the 100 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 1.3% (+0.1 percentage points from the month before). PowerShell is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 30% of the engineering projects with PowerShell.

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

Is PowerShell required or nice to have?

73% of the listings with PowerShell name it as a required skill. That is about the median of the skills of this overview (69%). 18% name it as nice to have, 9.4% without a clear mark.

PowerShell demand by month

Share of listings with PowerShell 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 2026104 of 7,653 projects1.4%
  2. July 2026156 of 9,884 projects1.6%
  3. August 2026127 of 10,216 projects1.2%
  4. September 2026132 of 10,958 projects1.2%
  5. October 2026169 of 13,054 projects1.3%

Skills asked for together with PowerShell

The 15 skills that listings with PowerShell name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for PowerShell, 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. Active Directoryall projects 2.4%36%
  2. Windows Serverall projects 1.5%33%
  3. Linuxall projects 4.7%26%
  4. Pythonall projects 6.9%24%
  5. Bashall projects 1.4%24%
  6. Automationall projects 4.5%23%
  7. Azureall projects 4%19%
  8. Monitoringall projects 4.6%19%
  9. Windowsall projects 1.8%17%
  10. Ansibleall projects 2.1%17%
  11. ITILall projects 3.3%17%
  12. Entra IDall projects 1.1%16%
  13. Group Policiesall projects 0.4%16%
  14. Troubleshootingall projects 4%15%
  15. Scriptingall projects 1.3%15%

Typical for PowerShell – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Group Policies (16%), Windows Server (33%), Bash (24%), Active Directory (36%), Entra ID (16%), Scripting (15%).

All of the most frequent companion skills are typical for this skill.

Roles asking for PowerShell

43% of the projects with PowerShell are engineering projects (296 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; 4.7% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name PowerShell, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 4.3% of the role's projects · required 70%30%
  2. Security Engineerin 5.9% of the role's projects · required 70%24%
  3. C# / .NET Developerin 5.9% of the role's projects · required 84%13%
  4. Cloud Solution Architectin 7.7% of the role's projects · required 74%12%
  5. Python Developerin 3.8% of the role's projects · required 100%4.7%
  6. Java Backend Developerin 0.8% of the role's projects · required 70%3.4%
  7. Low-Code Platform Developerin 0.9% of the role's projects · required 70%3.4%

Skills related to PowerShell

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

How to use the data

If PowerShell 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 PowerShell 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 PowerShell compares with its alternatives: Python, Java, SQL: programming languages 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.