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Test Automation freelance projects in Germany 2026

5% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Test Automation – 2,630 projects, rank 13 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 4.6% (−0.7 percentage points from the month before). Test Automation is asked for most often in Test Engineer projects: they make up 41% of the engineering projects with Test Automation.

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

Is Test Automation required or nice to have?

68% of the listings with Test Automation name it as a required skill. That is about the median of the skills of this overview (69%). 17% name it as nice to have, 15% without a clear mark.

Test Automation demand by month

Share of listings with Test Automation 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 2026439 of 7,653 projects5.7%
  2. July 2026542 of 9,884 projects5.5%
  3. August 2026426 of 10,216 projects4.2%
  4. September 2026579 of 10,958 projects5.3%
  5. October 2026597 of 13,054 projects4.6%

Skills asked for together with Test Automation

The 15 skills that listings with Test Automation name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Test Automation, 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%47%
  2. Jiraall projects 8.5%31%
  3. Javaall projects 6.6%31%
  4. REST APIsall projects 7.3%28%
  5. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%27%
  6. Scrumall projects 8.1%27%
  7. Gitall projects 5.1%25%
  8. TypeScriptall projects 4.3%24%
  9. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%23%
  10. Confluenceall projects 5.9%21%
  11. Dockerall projects 4.8%21%
  12. Spring Bootall projects 3.7%20%
  13. Test Managementall projects 3.2%20%
  14. Pythonall projects 6.9%20%
  15. Playwrightall projects 1.4%19%

Typical for Test Automation – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Playwright (19%), Test Management (20%), TypeScript (24%), Spring Boot (20%), CI/CD (47%), Git (25%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Python (20%).

Roles asking for Test Automation

86% of the projects with Test Automation are engineering projects (2,255 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; 8.3% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Test Automation, and how often as required.

  1. Test Engineerin 69% of the role's projects · required 79%41%
  2. Java Backend Developerin 23% of the role's projects · required 63%13%
  3. Java Fullstack Developerin 22% of the role's projects · required 67%7.8%
  4. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 7.5% of the role's projects · required 51%6.7%
  5. Angular Developerin 20% of the role's projects · required 60%3.8%
  6. React Developerin 18% of the role's projects · required 75%3.4%
  7. C# / .NET Developerin 9.7% of the role's projects · required 62%2.7%
  8. ML / AI Engineerin 6.8% of the role's projects · required 83%2.7%

Skills related to Test Automation

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

How to use the data

If Test Automation 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 Test Automation 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.