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Windows freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

1.8% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Windows – 960 projects, rank 53 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 1.8% (−0.4 percentage points from the month before). Windows is asked for most often in Security Engineer projects: they make up 20% of the engineering projects with Windows.

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

Is Windows required or nice to have?

80% of the listings with Windows name it as a required skill. That is more often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 7.6% name it as nice to have, 12% without a clear mark.

Windows demand by month

Share of listings with Windows 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 2026187 of 7,653 projects2.4%
  2. July 2026178 of 9,884 projects1.8%
  3. August 2026125 of 10,216 projects1.2%
  4. September 2026233 of 10,958 projects2.1%
  5. October 2026230 of 13,054 projects1.8%

Skills asked for together with Windows

The 15 skills that listings with Windows name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Windows, 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. Linuxall projects 4.7%42%
  2. IT Supportall projects 2.5%28%
  3. Active Directoryall projects 2.4%19%
  4. Networkingall projects 3.1%19%
  5. Troubleshootingall projects 4%19%
  6. Documentationall projects 10%17%
  7. Gitall projects 5.1%15%
  8. 2nd Level Supportall projects 1.7%15%
  9. Jiraall projects 8.5%15%
  10. Microsoft 365all projects 2.4%15%
  11. Javaall projects 6.6%14%
  12. SQLall projects 4.8%13%
  13. REST APIsall projects 7.3%13%
  14. ITILall projects 3.3%13%
  15. PowerShellall projects 1.3%12%

Typical for Windows – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are IT Support (28%), PowerShell (12%), Linux (42%), 2nd Level Support (15%), Active Directory (19%), Microsoft 365 (15%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Documentation (17%), Jira (15%), Java (14%), SQL (13%), REST APIs (13%).

Roles asking for Windows

32% of the projects with Windows are engineering projects (309 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; 5.2% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Windows, and how often as required.

  1. Security Engineerin 6.2% of the role's projects · required 89%20%
  2. Java Backend Developerin 4.2% of the role's projects · required 45%17%
  3. Java Fullstack Developerin 5.4% of the role's projects · required 61%14%
  4. C# / .NET Developerin 4.7% of the role's projects · required 83%9.4%
  5. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 1.4% of the role's projects · required 64%9.1%
  6. Embedded C/C++ Developerin 2.5% of the role's projects · required 71%6.8%
  7. Angular Developerin 4% of the role's projects · required 59%5.5%
  8. Test Engineerin 1.1% of the role's projects · required 47%4.9%

Skills related to Windows

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

How to use the data

If Windows 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 Windows 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.