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SAP HANA freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

0.9% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name SAP HANA – 446 projects, rank 118 of the 150 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 1.1% (+0.4 percentage points from the month before). SAP HANA is asked for most often in SAP Developer projects: they make up 64% of the engineering projects with SAP HANA.

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

Is SAP HANA required or nice to have?

74% of the listings with SAP HANA name it as a required skill. That is more often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 14% name it as nice to have, 12% without a clear mark.

SAP HANA demand by month

Share of listings with SAP HANA 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 202669 of 7,653 projects0.9%
  2. July 202681 of 9,884 projects0.8%
  3. August 202678 of 10,216 projects0.8%
  4. September 202675 of 10,958 projects0.7%
  5. October 2026141 of 13,054 projects1.1%

Skills asked for together with SAP HANA

The 15 skills that listings with SAP HANA name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for SAP HANA, 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%42%
  2. ABAPall projects 2.6%39%
  3. SAP BWall projects 0.8%33%
  4. SAP BTPall projects 1.9%31%
  5. SAPall projects 7%25%
  6. SAP Basisall projects 0.6%20%
  7. SAP Analytics Cloudall projects 0.5%19%
  8. Data Modelingall projects 3.6%15%
  9. SAFeall projects 4%14%
  10. SAP Fioriall projects 1.6%14%
  11. Scrumall projects 8.1%14%
  12. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%13%
  13. SAP ECCall projects 1.8%13%
  14. Software Architectureall projects 4%13%
  15. SQLScriptall projects 0.1%11%

Typical for SAP HANA – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are SQLScript (11%), SAP BW (33%), SAP Analytics Cloud (19%), SAP Basis (20%), SAP BTP (31%), ABAP (39%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Scrum (14%), Agile Methods (13%).

Roles asking for SAP HANA

47% of the projects with SAP HANA are engineering projects (211 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; 0.9% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name SAP HANA, and how often as required.

  1. SAP Developerin 11% of the role's projects · required 74%64%
  2. Data Engineerin 3.3% of the role's projects · required 74%22%
  3. Angular Developerin 3.1% of the role's projects · required 69%6.2%

Skills related to SAP HANA

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

How to use the data

If SAP HANA 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 HANA 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.