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Requirements Engineering freelance projects in Germany 2026

4.9% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Requirements Engineering – 2,553 projects, rank 14 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 6.4% (+1.2 percentage points from the month before). Requirements Engineering is asked for most often in Low-Code Platform Developer projects: they make up 15% of the engineering projects with Requirements Engineering.

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

Is Requirements Engineering required or nice to have?

80% of the listings with Requirements Engineering name it as a required skill. That is more often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 3.2% name it as nice to have, 17% without a clear mark.

Requirements Engineering demand by month

Share of listings with Requirements Engineering 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 2026453 of 7,653 projects5.9%
  2. July 2026288 of 9,884 projects2.9%
  3. August 2026373 of 10,216 projects3.7%
  4. September 2026575 of 10,958 projects5.2%
  5. October 2026841 of 13,054 projects6.4%

Skills asked for together with Requirements Engineering

The 15 skills that listings with Requirements Engineering name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Requirements Engineering, 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. Stakeholder Managementall projects 12%27%
  2. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%22%
  3. Business Analysisall projects 2.4%19%
  4. Scrumall projects 8.1%18%
  5. Jiraall projects 8.5%17%
  6. Project Managementall projects 15%16%
  7. Confluenceall projects 5.9%14%
  8. User Storiesall projects 1.4%13%
  9. Documentationall projects 10%13%
  10. Process Optimizationall projects 4.9%9.8%
  11. Requirements Managementall projects 2.7%9.6%
  12. Interface Managementall projects 4.3%9.5%
  13. Data Modelingall projects 3.6%9%
  14. Testingall projects 4.7%8.6%
  15. Software Architectureall projects 4%8.3%

Typical for Requirements Engineering – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are User Stories (13%), Business Analysis (19%), Requirements Management (9.6%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Stakeholder Management (27%), Agile Methods (22%), Scrum (18%), Jira (17%), Project Management (16%), Confluence (14%).

Roles asking for Requirements Engineering

19% of the projects with Requirements Engineering are engineering projects (488 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; 9.6% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Requirements Engineering, and how often as required.

  1. Low-Code Platform Developerin 8.1% of the role's projects · required 62%15%
  2. Test Engineerin 3.6% of the role's projects · required 84%10%
  3. ML / AI Engineerin 5% of the role's projects · required 70%9%
  4. Data Engineerin 3.4% of the role's projects · required 67%8.8%
  5. SAP Developerin 4.2% of the role's projects · required 60%8.8%
  6. Embedded C/C++ Developerin 4.6% of the role's projects · required 82%7.8%
  7. Java Backend Developerin 2.9% of the role's projects · required 57%7.6%
  8. C# / .NET Developerin 5.2% of the role's projects · required 63%6.6%

Skills related to Requirements Engineering

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

How to use the data

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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.