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Terraform freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

2.6% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Terraform – 1,332 projects, rank 36 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 2.7% (−0.3 percentage points from the month before). Terraform is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 52% of the engineering projects with Terraform.

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

Is Terraform required or nice to have?

69% of the listings with Terraform name it as a required skill. That is about the median of the skills of this overview (69%). 22% name it as nice to have, 8.6% without a clear mark.

Terraform demand by month

Share of listings with Terraform 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 2026185 of 7,653 projects2.4%
  2. July 2026235 of 9,884 projects2.4%
  3. August 2026218 of 10,216 projects2.1%
  4. September 2026326 of 10,958 projects3%
  5. October 2026354 of 13,054 projects2.7%

Skills asked for together with Terraform

The 15 skills that listings with Terraform name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Terraform, 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. CI/CDall projects 9.2%54%
  2. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%53%
  3. Infrastructure as Codeall projects 2.3%42%
  4. Pythonall projects 6.9%36%
  5. Azureall projects 4%35%
  6. AWSall projects 4.1%34%
  7. Dockerall projects 4.8%31%
  8. Ansibleall projects 2.1%30%
  9. Monitoringall projects 4.6%28%
  10. ArgoCDall projects 1.2%23%
  11. Grafanaall projects 2.2%23%
  12. Linuxall projects 4.7%22%
  13. Helmall projects 1.7%22%
  14. GitOpsall projects 1.2%21%
  15. Gitall projects 5.1%21%

Typical for Terraform – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are ArgoCD (23%), Infrastructure as Code (42%), GitOps (21%), Ansible (30%), Helm (22%), Grafana (23%).

All of the most frequent companion skills are typical for this skill.

Roles asking for Terraform

90% of the projects with Terraform are engineering projects (1,202 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; 2.7% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Terraform, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 31% of the role's projects · required 76%52%
  2. Cloud Solution Architectin 35% of the role's projects · required 87%12%
  3. Data Engineerin 7.9% of the role's projects · required 69%8.4%
  4. ML / AI Engineerin 9.3% of the role's projects · required 80%6.8%
  5. Security Engineerin 5.2% of the role's projects · required 64%4.4%
  6. Java Backend Developerin 4% of the role's projects · required 28%4.2%
  7. C# / .NET Developerin 2.7% of the role's projects · required 47%1.4%
  8. Python Developerin 4.6% of the role's projects · required 24%1.4%

Skills related to Terraform

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

How to use the data

If Terraform 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 Terraform 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.