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Keycloak freelancers:
What the market really pays and wants.

Demand and trends for Keycloak – calculated from 31 real project and job postings of the last 90 days. No survey, no guesswork without data.

As of: week 41/2026 · updated weekly
Listings (90 d)
31
Rank 503 of 532 skills
Trend (90 d)
▼ 40 %
Market share compared with the 90 days before. IT postings overall: ▲ 40 %
Of which must-have
6 %
Rated for 31 postings (AI analysis), otherwise “nice to have”
The jury's verdict on Keycloak

A shrinking market.

Keycloak sits at rank 503 of 532, rather at the edge of demand. Its market share is falling (▼ 40 % vs. the 90 days before).

Small marketRank 503 of 532 skills, 31 postings in 90 days.
Shrinking marketMarket share ▼ 40 % vs. the 90 days before.
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What is Keycloak – and why do companies hire Keycloak freelancers?

The postings that mention Keycloak fall into these types of project (share of the classified postings):

Infrastructure and operations52 %
Cloud, automation and platform operations with Keycloak.
New development35 %
Building new applications, platforms and products with Keycloak.
Consulting and design13 %
Consulting, concept work, architecture and project leadership around Keycloak.

Typical roles

The roles hired most often are DevOps Engineer (45 %), Software Architect (16 %), Fullstack Developer (16 %) and Backend Developer (10 %). Of the postings that state an experience level, 70 % explicitly ask for senior profiles.

How demand is shifting

Compared with the previous quarter, the share of “Infrastructure and operations” grows by 11 percentage points.

Who wants Keycloak – and under which conditions

Seniority

Senior70 %
Mid-level27 %

Senior dominates (70 %).

Stated in 97 % of listings

Contract type

Freelance84 %
Permanent10 %
Temp agency6 %

Freelance dominates (84 %).

Stated in 100 % of listings

Project language

German94 %
English6 %

German dominates (94 %).

Stated in 100 % of listings

Current Keycloak projects

Methodology: We count IT postings of the last 90 days that mention Keycloak. Projects posted several times that are detected as duplicates count once; postings without an assignable IT category are missing, so the figures are a lower bound. The trend compares the share of all IT postings with the 90 days before and only appears with enough comparison data. We do not show figures based on fewer than 30 data points. The rating “must have” or “nice to have” comes from an AI analysis of the posting texts. Distributions only refer to postings that state the respective attribute; we state the coverage alongside. An AI assigns the project type and role of each posting from its title, category and skills; the shares are counted postings, not estimates, and only appear with enough classified postings.

Basis: 10,534 IT listings in the window

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