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SAFe freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

4% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name SAFe – 2,060 projects, rank 22 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 3.9% (+0.2 percentage points from the month before). SAFe is asked for most often in Java Backend Developer projects: they make up 16% of the engineering projects with SAFe.

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

Is SAFe required or nice to have?

46% of the listings with SAFe name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 41% name it as nice to have, 13% without a clear mark.

SAFe demand by month

Share of listings with SAFe 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 2026418 of 7,653 projects5.5%
  2. July 2026324 of 9,884 projects3.3%
  3. August 2026367 of 10,216 projects3.6%
  4. September 2026402 of 10,958 projects3.7%
  5. October 2026506 of 13,054 projects3.9%

Skills asked for together with SAFe

The 15 skills that listings with SAFe name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for SAFe, 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. Scrumall projects 8.1%73%
  2. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%44%
  3. Jiraall projects 8.5%34%
  4. CI/CDall projects 9.2%28%
  5. Confluenceall projects 5.9%27%
  6. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%22%
  7. Javaall projects 6.6%21%
  8. Stakeholder Managementall projects 12%21%
  9. Test Automationall projects 5%17%
  10. REST APIsall projects 7.3%17%
  11. DevOpsall projects 4%16%
  12. Spring Bootall projects 3.7%16%
  13. Kanbanall projects 2.8%16%
  14. AWSall projects 4.1%14%
  15. Microservicesall projects 2.9%14%

Typical for SAFe – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Scrum (73%), Kanban (16%), Agile Methods (44%), Microservices (14%), Confluence (27%), Spring Boot (16%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Stakeholder Management (21%), REST APIs (17%).

Roles asking for SAFe

43% of the projects with SAFe are engineering projects (892 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; 5.3% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name SAFe, and how often as required.

  1. Java Backend Developerin 12% of the role's projects · required 34%16%
  2. Test Engineerin 10% of the role's projects · required 17%15%
  3. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 6.1% of the role's projects · required 28%14%
  4. Java Fullstack Developerin 14% of the role's projects · required 21%12%
  5. Data Engineerin 6% of the role's projects · required 39%8.6%
  6. Angular Developerin 17% of the role's projects · required 15%8%
  7. SAP Developerin 4.4% of the role's projects · required 16%5%
  8. ML / AI Engineerin 4.2% of the role's projects · required 30%4.1%

Skills related to SAFe

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

How to use the data

If SAFe 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 SAFe 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.