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Recruiting freelancers:
What the market really pays and wants.

Demand and trends for Recruiting – calculated from 44 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)
44
Rank 360 of 531 skills
Trend (90 d)
▲ 15 %
Market share compared with the 90 days before. IT postings overall: ▲ 42 %
Of which must-have
52 %
Rated for 44 postings (AI analysis), otherwise “nice to have”
Remote possible
67 %
2 % fully remote · stated in 98 % of postings
The jury's verdict on Recruiting

Growing, but still small.

Recruiting sits at rank 360 of 531, in the solid middle of demand. Its market share is rising (▲ 15 % vs. the 90 days before).

Solid demandRank 360 of 531 skills, 44 postings in 90 days.
Growing marketMarket share ▲ 15 % vs. the 90 days before.
Remote possible67 % of postings allow remote work.
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Demand over the last 12 weeks

new listings per week
W29W40
▲ 15 %
Market share vs. previous quarter
▲ 63 %
Postings vs. previous quarter
360 / 531
Rank among all skills

Weekly postings for Recruiting are rising: from an average of 2 to 7 per week (+238 %). Volume is developing better than the IT market overall (▲ 42 %).

Who wants Recruiting – and under which conditions

Seniority

Mid-level41 %
Junior30 %
Senior27 %

Mid-level leads (41 %).

Stated in 100 % of listings

Industries

it_software56 %
consulting29 %
automotive6 %

it_software dominates (56 %).

Stated in 77 % of listings

Contract type

Permanent70 %
Freelance20 %
Temp agency9 %

Permanent dominates (70 %). 20 % of postings are aimed directly at freelancers.

Stated in 100 % of listings

Workplace

Partly remote65 %
On site33 %

Partly remote dominates (65 %). Anyone working fully remote only reaches 2 % of postings.

Stated in 98 % of listings

Regions (on site)

Köln10 %
Baden-Württemberg7 %
München5 %
Nürnberg5 %
Hamburg5 %

Köln leads (10 %).

Stated in 95 % of listings

Project language

German98 %

German dominates (98 %).

Stated in 100 % of listings

Who posts Recruiting projects

FERCHAU GmbH39
Postings of the last 90 days.

Current Recruiting projects

Frequently asked questions about Recruiting freelancing

How many Recruiting projects are there right now?

In the last 90 days, 44 projects and jobs mentioning Recruiting were posted. That is around 3 per week. The market share changed by ▲ 15 % compared with the previous quarter.

Is Recruiting still in demand for freelancers?

Recruiting ranks 360 of 531 skills.

Are Recruiting projects possible remotely?

67 % of Recruiting postings allow remote work. 2 % are fully remote.

Who posts Recruiting projects?

The most active recruiter accounts for 89 % of all Recruiting postings of the last 90 days.

Methodology: We count IT postings of the last 90 days that mention Recruiting. 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. Recruiters are the posters of the listing according to the source, only above a minimum number of postings.

Basis: 10,565 IT listings in the window

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