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SAP freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

7% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name SAP – 3,662 projects, rank 7 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 8.4% (+1.5 percentage points from the month before). SAP is asked for most often in SAP Developer projects: they make up 51% of the engineering projects with SAP.

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

Is SAP required or nice to have?

64% of the listings with SAP name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 24% name it as nice to have, 11% without a clear mark.

SAP demand by month

Share of listings with SAP 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 2026619 of 7,653 projects8.1%
  2. July 2026600 of 9,884 projects6.1%
  3. August 2026570 of 10,216 projects5.6%
  4. September 2026753 of 10,958 projects6.9%
  5. October 20261,094 of 13,054 projects8.4%

Skills asked for together with SAP

The 15 skills that listings with SAP name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for SAP, 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. SAP S/4HANAall projects 7.5%28%
  2. Project Managementall projects 15%21%
  3. Stakeholder Managementall projects 12%18%
  4. MS Officeall projects 5.4%13%
  5. Integrationall projects 4.2%11%
  6. Reportingall projects 6%10%
  7. ABAPall projects 2.6%9.2%
  8. Excelall projects 3.5%9%
  9. Customizingall projects 3.5%8.6%
  10. SAP FIall projects 2.6%8.6%
  11. SAP BTPall projects 1.9%8.3%
  12. SAP MMall projects 2.2%8.1%
  13. Process Optimizationall projects 4.9%7.5%
  14. Jiraall projects 8.5%7.3%
  15. Migrationall projects 4.1%7.3%

Typical for SAP – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are SAP BTP (8.3%), SAP S/4HANA (28%), SAP MM (8.1%), ABAP (9.2%), SAP FI (8.6%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Project Management (21%), Stakeholder Management (18%), MS Office (13%), Integration (11%), Reporting (10%), Excel (9%).

Roles asking for SAP

13% of the projects with SAP are engineering projects (479 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; 4.4% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name SAP, and how often as required.

  1. SAP Developerin 24% of the role's projects · required 73%51%
  2. Data Engineerin 4.4% of the role's projects · required 45%12%
  3. Test Engineerin 3% of the role's projects · required 58%8.4%
  4. Security Engineerin 2.8% of the role's projects · required 61%5.8%
  5. Low-Code Platform Developerin 3.1% of the role's projects · required 74%5.6%
  6. ML / AI Engineerin 1.9% of the role's projects · required 18%3.5%
  7. C# / .NET Developerin 1.8% of the role's projects · required 18%2.3%

Skills related to SAP

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

How to use the data

If SAP 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 SAP 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.