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ServiceNow freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

2% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name ServiceNow – 1,060 projects, rank 47 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 2.2% (−0.2 percentage points from the month before). ServiceNow is asked for most often in Low-Code Platform Developer projects: they make up 68% of the engineering projects with ServiceNow.

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

Is ServiceNow required or nice to have?

70% of the listings with ServiceNow name it as a required skill. That is about the median of the skills of this overview (69%). 21% name it as nice to have, 9.2% without a clear mark.

ServiceNow demand by month

Share of listings with ServiceNow 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 2026144 of 7,653 projects1.9%
  2. July 2026165 of 9,884 projects1.7%
  3. August 2026178 of 10,216 projects1.7%
  4. September 2026273 of 10,958 projects2.5%
  5. October 2026293 of 13,054 projects2.2%

Skills asked for together with ServiceNow

The 15 skills that listings with ServiceNow name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for ServiceNow, 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. ITILall projects 3.3%25%
  2. Jiraall projects 8.5%21%
  3. IT Service Managementall projects 1.9%21%
  4. Incident Managementall projects 3%20%
  5. CMDBall projects 0.6%20%
  6. Stakeholder Managementall projects 12%16%
  7. Change Managementall projects 4.9%16%
  8. Active Directoryall projects 2.4%15%
  9. 2nd Level Supportall projects 1.7%14%
  10. Documentationall projects 10%13%
  11. Windows 11all projects 0.6%12%
  12. Confluenceall projects 5.9%12%
  13. Rollout Managementall projects 1.6%11%
  14. SCCMall projects 0.5%11%
  15. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%11%

Typical for ServiceNow – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are CMDB (20%), SCCM (11%), Windows 11 (12%), IT Service Management (21%), 2nd Level Support (14%), ITIL (25%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Jira (21%), Stakeholder Management (16%), Documentation (13%), Confluence (12%), Agile Methods (11%).

Roles asking for ServiceNow

30% of the projects with ServiceNow are engineering projects (322 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; 1.9% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name ServiceNow, and how often as required.

  1. Low-Code Platform Developerin 25% of the role's projects · required 97%68%
  2. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 1.4% of the role's projects · required 38%9%
  3. Security Engineerin 2.9% of the role's projects · required 66%9%
  4. Test Engineerin 1.4% of the role's projects · required 84%5.9%

Skills related to ServiceNow

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

How to use the data

If ServiceNow 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 ServiceNow 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.