Part-time IT contracts in Germany: how many there are and where to find them
18% of IT freelance contract listings in Germany accept fewer than five days a week: 11% accept three days or less, 4.8% two days or less. Many listings say nothing about the workload, though (49%); of those that do, 35% are part-time. The role with the most part-time contracts is SAP Developer (33%). The analysis covers 44,305 listings, broken down by developer role, skill, project board and month.
How many IT freelance jobs in Germany are part-time?
51% of the listings state a workload – as a percentage, in days or hours a week, as “Teilzeit” (part-time) or “nach Bedarf” (on demand). 33% of all listings ask for full time, 18% accept less. What counts is the lowest workload the client accepts: “60 to 100%” counts as three days a week.
Someone looking for part-time work therefore finds around 1,966 matching listings a month on average – plus the many listings stating no workload, where it is often negotiable.
IT contracts for 1, 2 or 3 days a week
In listings, the workload is the share of a working week: 100% is five days (about 40 hours), 80% four, 60% three, 40% two and 20% one day a week. 1.5% of the listings accept one day a week or less, 4.8% two days at most and 11% three days at most. Another 1% say “part-time” without a figure, and 0.6% look for someone “on demand”. Three and a half to four and a half days a week – usually listed as 70 to 90% – are accepted by 5.4%. Projectmatch's workload filter shows current contracts of 2 days a week or less.
Which roles offer the most part-time contracts?
The role with the most part-time contracts is SAP Developer (33%), followed by Low-Code Platform Developer (23%); the one with the fewest is Embedded C/C++ Developer (4.9%). Below each role are the share accepting two days a week or less and the number of listings.
Which skills are in demand part-time?
The highest shares of part-time contracts are in SAP S/4HANA Utilities (48%), SAP SuccessFactors (43%), SAP HCM (38%), SAP IS-U (37%) and ABAP (36%). Only skills named by at least 300 listings are counted.
Which project board has the most part-time contracts?
The highest share of part-time contracts is on solcom.de (21%), the lowest on gulp.de (11%). How often a board's listings state a workload at all differs too; it is stated least often on gulp.de (25%). None of the four boards offers a search filter by workload; you have to read the descriptions.
An overview of the boards themselves: IT contract and freelance job boards in Germany.
Part-time and full time compared: remote, length, hourly rate
The table compares the part-time contracts with those asking for five days a week; each share refers to the listings that state the remote share, the length or the hourly rate.
| Measure | Part-time | Full time |
|---|---|---|
| 100% remote (of the contracts stating a remote share) | 43% | 30% |
| hybrid | 55% | 58% |
| fully on site | 2.6% | 12% |
| median contract length | 6 months | 6 months |
| up to 3 months (of the contracts stating a length) | 22% | 17% |
| 12 months or more | 30% | 40% |
| median hourly rate | €80–85 | €75–80 |
| listings stating an hourly rate | 384 | 694 |
Are part-time contracts more often remote?
Yes: 43% of the part-time contracts stating a remote share are fully remote, against 30% of the full-time ones. Fully on site are 2.6% of the part-time and 12% of the full-time contracts. How much remote work IT freelance contracts allow overall: How remote are IT freelance projects?
Do part-time contracts run shorter?
In the median, part-time and full-time contracts run equally long: 6 months. But short contracts are more common part-time: 22% run 3 months or less (full time: 17%), only 30% a year or longer (full time: 40%). More on contract length: IT contract length in Germany.
Does part-time pay a different hourly rate?
In the median, part-time listings name €80–85 an hour, full-time ones €75–80 – part-time tends to pay more per hour. Few listings name a rate, though: 384 part-time and 694 full-time ones. What listings pay overall: IT contractor rates in Germany; what fewer days a week earn you is worked out by the IT contractor rate calculator.
Part-time contracts month by month
From September 2026 to October 2026 the share of part-time contracts rose by 1.3 percentage points to 18%. The table shows the number of listings per month, the share of part-time contracts, the share accepting two days a week or less and the share stating a workload at all.
| Month | Listings | part-time | up to 2 days | workload stated | Change part-time (percentage points) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | 10,044 | 18% | 4.4% | 53% | |
| August 2026 | 10,226 | 18% | 5.2% | 51% | +0.5 |
| September 2026 | 10,969 | 17% | 4.7% | 47% | −1.7 |
| October 2026 | 13,066 | 18% | 4.7% | 52% | +1.3 |
How to find part-time IT contracts and freelance jobs
- Filter by workload: Projectmatch's “Workload” filter shows contracts of 2 days a week or less or all part-time contracts. The four boards themselves offer no such filter.
- Ask about listings stating no workload: 49% name none, and a reduced workload is often negotiable.
- Look at roles and skills with a high part-time share, above all SAP Developer (33%). Projectmatch matches new contracts against your profile automatically – try it now.
See also: IT contract length in Germany, How remote are IT freelance projects?, The most in-demand developer roles and Where to find IT contracts in Germany.
Method
An AI model reads every project description and records the workload only when the description states it – never guessed from the role or seniority. Every figure is converted to days a week (100% = 5 days, 40% = 2 days, 8 hours a week = 1 day) and rounded to half days. How many days are spent on site does not count as workload. For a range, the lowest accepted workload counts; for an upper limit alone (“up to 3 days”), that limit counts. Part-time here means fewer than five days a week, or “part-time” or “on demand” without a figure. A total volume in person-days without a duration counts as no statement.
The roles are those of the developer roles analysis; roles and boards with fewer than 300 listings are left out. The contract length is counted as in the contract length analysis, the hourly rate as in the rates analysis (day rates divided by eight).
The figures start in July 2026, since when every project is read this way, and refer to the projects first listed in a month. They are updated monthly and published under the CC BY 4.0 licence: you may use them freely, also commercially, crediting “Projectmatch (projectmatch.io)” and, online, linking to this page.