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Spring Boot freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

3.7% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Spring Boot – 1,907 projects, rank 23 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 3% (−0.3 percentage points from the month before). Spring Boot is asked for most often in Java Backend Developer projects: they make up 46% of the engineering projects with Spring Boot.

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

Is Spring Boot required or nice to have?

80% of the listings with Spring Boot name it as a required skill. That is more often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 10% name it as nice to have, 9.9% without a clear mark.

Spring Boot demand by month

Share of listings with Spring Boot 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 2026325 of 7,653 projects4.2%
  2. July 2026445 of 9,884 projects4.5%
  3. August 2026346 of 10,216 projects3.4%
  4. September 2026363 of 10,958 projects3.3%
  5. October 2026395 of 13,054 projects3%

Skills asked for together with Spring Boot

The 15 skills that listings with Spring Boot name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Spring Boot, 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. Javaall projects 6.6%88%
  2. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%57%
  3. REST APIsall projects 7.3%48%
  4. CI/CDall projects 9.2%46%
  5. Dockerall projects 4.8%42%
  6. Microservicesall projects 2.9%37%
  7. Scrumall projects 8.1%34%
  8. TypeScriptall projects 4.3%33%
  9. PostgreSQLall projects 2.9%30%
  10. Gitall projects 5.1%29%
  11. Angularall projects 2.6%28%
  12. Test Automationall projects 5%28%
  13. Kafkaall projects 2%27%
  14. GitLab CI/CDall projects 2.5%27%
  15. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%27%

Typical for Spring Boot – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Java (88%), Kafka (27%), Microservices (37%), Angular (28%), GitLab CI/CD (27%), PostgreSQL (30%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Agile Methods (27%).

Roles asking for Spring Boot

95% of the projects with Spring Boot are engineering projects (1,818 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; 2.3% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Spring Boot, and how often as required.

  1. Java Backend Developerin 66% of the role's projects · required 88%46%
  2. Java Fullstack Developerin 75% of the role's projects · required 85%33%
  3. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 4.6% of the role's projects · required 51%5.1%
  4. Angular Developerin 14% of the role's projects · required 38%3.3%
  5. Test Engineerin 4.2% of the role's projects · required 66%3.1%
  6. React Developerin 12% of the role's projects · required 50%2.9%
  7. Security Engineerin 2.3% of the role's projects · required 83%1.3%
  8. ML / AI Engineerin 2.5% of the role's projects · required 95%1.2%

Skills related to Spring Boot

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

How to use the data

If Spring Boot 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 Spring Boot 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.