How remote are IT freelance projects in Germany?
Of 44,305 analysed IT freelance projects, 66% state how much of the work can be done remotely. Of those, 39% are fully remote, 54% hybrid and 6.7% fully on site. 34% of the listings say nothing about it. Below: the stated shares, how many on-site days hybrid projects ask for, and how remote each developer role and each city is.
Remote, hybrid or on site: the remote shares at a glance
The chart shows the remote shares the listings state – in the description or in the board's remote field. The percentages refer to the 29,151 projects that state a share. The middle value lies at 80–89%; 64% of these projects can be done at least 80% remotely.
Listings without a remote share
34% of the listings name no remote share at all. Many of them mention remote work only vaguely ("remote possible", "partly remote"), which we do not count as a share. When a listing says nothing, ask before applying – the answer decides whether a project in another city is an option at all.
Hybrid work: on-site days per week
Some listings name the days on site per week, with or without a percentage – 31% of all listings. The most frequent answer is "0 days – fully remote"; among hybrid listings it is "1 day on site".
Remote share by developer role
How remote a project is depends on what is built. The most remote role is Low-Code Platform Developer (57%), the least remote PLC / Automation Programmer (15%) – the share in brackets is the fully remote share of the role's projects that state a share. The chart shows all 16 roles with enough data; below each name, how many of the role's projects state a share at all.
Shares of the projects stating a remote share. Below each name: how many projects state a share at all.
Remote share by city: Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg and more
The city is the client's location as the listing names it. Among the 15 largest project cities, Mannheim (48%) has the highest fully remote share and Bremen (10%) the lowest. Listings that name "remote" or only "Germany" as their location are not counted under any city.
Remote share month by month
The table shows, per month, how many listings state a remote share and how many of those are fully remote. From September 2026 to October 2026 the fully remote share changed by +1.4 percentage points. Single months fluctuate; a shift of less than one percentage point is not a trend yet.
| Month | share stated | 100% remote | Change (percentage points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | 72% | 38% | |
| August 2026 | 64% | 38% | +0.2 |
| September 2026 | 65% | 40% | +1.9 |
| October 2026 | 63% | 41% | +1.4 |
Finding remote projects: how to use the data
- Of the projects that state a share, 39% are fully remote and 54% mix remote and on-site work. If you only want remote work, search for it explicitly – on the projects page a search such as "react remote" shows projects with at least 80% remote.
- For hybrid projects, the on-site days matter more than the percentage: one day a week in a city two hours away is a different project than three days.
- If a listing says nothing, ask early. Clients often accept more remote work than the listing shows.
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See also: Most in-demand developer roles in IT freelance projects, Which skills belong together?, English-speaking IT contracts in Germany (including remote work from abroad) and IT contract length in Germany (remote and hybrid contracts compared). How remote AI projects are: AI freelance & contract jobs in Germany. How often each agency offers remote work: IT recruitment agencies in Germany. When new projects appear: When are IT contracts posted in Germany?.
Method
An AI model reads each project description and records the remote share only when the description states it explicitly – "80% remote", "4 days remote, 1 day on site" – never from vague wording. Where the description states nothing, a share entered in the board's own remote field counts as stated; a 0% in that field does not, because an unfilled field shows 0% too. The on-site days come from the same reading of the description.
The figures start in July 2026, since when every project has been read this way, and refer to the projects first listed in a month. The roles are those of the developer-roles analysis; roles and cities with fewer than 100 projects stating a share are left out. Spelling variants of a city, such as "Frankfurt a.M." and "Frankfurt am Main", are merged. The figures are updated every month.
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