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Scrum freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

8.1% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Scrum – 4,221 projects, rank 3 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 8.1% (+0.5 percentage points from the month before). Scrum is asked for most often in Java Backend Developer projects: they make up 16% of the engineering projects with Scrum.

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

Is Scrum required or nice to have?

58% of the listings with Scrum name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 26% name it as nice to have, 16% without a clear mark.

Scrum demand by month

Share of listings with Scrum 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 2026857 of 7,653 projects11%
  2. July 2026814 of 9,884 projects8.2%
  3. August 2026600 of 10,216 projects5.9%
  4. September 2026831 of 10,958 projects7.6%
  5. October 20261,060 of 13,054 projects8.1%

Skills asked for together with Scrum

The 15 skills that listings with Scrum name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Scrum, 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. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%44%
  2. Jiraall projects 8.5%37%
  3. SAFeall projects 4%36%
  4. Kanbanall projects 2.8%33%
  5. Confluenceall projects 5.9%26%
  6. CI/CDall projects 9.2%26%
  7. Javaall projects 6.6%23%
  8. REST APIsall projects 7.3%21%
  9. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%19%
  10. Stakeholder Managementall projects 12%18%
  11. Gitall projects 5.1%18%
  12. Test Automationall projects 5%17%
  13. TypeScriptall projects 4.3%17%
  14. Spring Bootall projects 3.7%15%
  15. Project Managementall projects 15%15%

Typical for Scrum – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Kanban (33%), SAFe (36%), Agile Methods (44%), Confluence (26%), Jira (37%), Spring Boot (15%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: CI/CD (26%), REST APIs (21%), Kubernetes (19%), Stakeholder Management (18%), Project Management (15%).

Roles asking for Scrum

54% of the projects with Scrum are engineering projects (2,267 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; 9.3% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Scrum, and how often as required.

  1. Java Backend Developerin 28% of the role's projects · required 49%16%
  2. Java Fullstack Developerin 38% of the role's projects · required 62%14%
  3. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 13% of the role's projects · required 54%11%
  4. Test Engineerin 18% of the role's projects · required 42%11%
  5. Angular Developerin 33% of the role's projects · required 36%6.1%
  6. Data Engineerin 11% of the role's projects · required 57%6%
  7. C# / .NET Developerin 18% of the role's projects · required 42%4.9%
  8. SAP Developerin 10% of the role's projects · required 31%4.7%

Skills related to Scrum

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

How to use the data

If Scrum 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 Scrum projects or try it now.

All skills compared: Most in-demand IT skills in German freelance projects. Which skills form clusters: Which skills belong together? Which skills are in particular demand in Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt and other cities: IT freelance projects by city.

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.