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SAP S/4HANA freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

7.5% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name SAP S/4HANA – 3,886 projects, rank 4 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 8.4% (+1.5 percentage points from the month before). SAP S/4HANA is asked for most often in SAP Developer projects: they make up 79% of the engineering projects with SAP S/4HANA.

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

Is SAP S/4HANA required or nice to have?

76% of the listings with SAP S/4HANA 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, 9.8% without a clear mark.

SAP S/4HANA demand by month

Share of listings with SAP S/4HANA 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 2026607 of 7,653 projects7.9%
  2. July 2026713 of 9,884 projects7.2%
  3. August 2026698 of 10,216 projects6.8%
  4. September 2026750 of 10,958 projects6.8%
  5. October 20261,091 of 13,054 projects8.4%

Skills asked for together with SAP S/4HANA

The 15 skills that listings with SAP S/4HANA name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for SAP S/4HANA, 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. SAPall projects 7%26%
  2. SAP FIall projects 2.6%19%
  3. Customizingall projects 3.5%19%
  4. SAP MMall projects 2.2%18%
  5. Stakeholder Managementall projects 12%17%
  6. Project Managementall projects 15%17%
  7. SAP ECCall projects 1.8%15%
  8. SAP BTPall projects 1.9%15%
  9. ABAPall projects 2.6%15%
  10. SAP SDall projects 1.7%14%
  11. SAP Fioriall projects 1.6%13%
  12. Integrationall projects 4.2%13%
  13. SAP COall projects 1.6%13%
  14. Migrationall projects 4.1%10%
  15. Transformation Projectsall projects 2.2%8.9%

Typical for SAP S/4HANA – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are SAP SD (14%), SAP ECC (15%), SAP Fiori (13%), SAP MM (18%), SAP CO (13%), SAP BTP (15%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Stakeholder Management (17%), Project Management (17%), Migration (10%).

Roles asking for SAP S/4HANA

14% of the projects with SAP S/4HANA are engineering projects (541 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; 1.5% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name SAP S/4HANA, and how often as required.

  1. SAP Developerin 42% of the role's projects · required 71%79%
  2. Test Engineerin 2.7% of the role's projects · required 43%6.8%
  3. Data Engineerin 1.4% of the role's projects · required 56%3.3%
  4. C# / .NET Developerin 2.3% of the role's projects · required 21%2.6%

Skills related to SAP S/4HANA

Skills of this overview that are asked for together with SAP S/4HANA much more often than chance would predict.

How to use the data

If SAP S/4HANA 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 S/4HANA 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.