.NET Daily Rates in Germany

Compare the average daily rate of a freelance .NET expert with related technologies and cities in Germany, calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.

Among the 13 related technologies compared, average daily rates range from:

690 € for ADO.NET → 776 € for NuGet

.NET averages:

743 € per day

NuGet LINQ Entity Framework Core .NET Framework WCF ASP.NET WPF Windows Forms Entity Framework .NET Core .NET MAUI ASP.NET Core ADO.NET

100 200 300 400 500 600 700 €/day

What the benchmark shows

With an average daily rate of 743 €, .NET sits mid-field in this comparison — 2 of the compared technologies above it, 11 below. Sharper specialisations tend to settle above the technology, broader ones below.

Location shifts the picture as well: across the cities in Germany, average daily rates differ by up to 145 € — around 20% of the countrywide average. Dense metropolitan markets usually carry a premium over the national rate, smaller ones a discount; the chart below shows where each city lands.

Among the 11 cities compared, average daily rates range from:

651 € for Bremen → 796 € for Munich

Countrywide average:

743 € per day

Munich Frankfurt Hamburg Dusseldorf Nuremberg Cologne Berlin Stuttgart Dortmund Essen Bremen

110 220 330 440 550 660 770 €/day

Frequently asked questions

Key details about .NET, drawn from the questions we get asked most.

The average daily rate for .NET in Germany is 743 € with a median of 720 €, based on an 8-hour working day — that corresponds to an average of 93 € per hour.

Based on the average daily rate of 743 €, a full-time month of 21 working days corresponds to about 15,595 € — the underlying hourly rate is 93 €.

The average of 743 € sits about 23 € per day above the median of 720 € (93 € versus 90 € per hour): a smaller number of high-priced specialists pulls the average up, while the median marks the typical middle of the market — half of the freelancers charge less, half charge more.

Between Bremen (651 €) and Munich (796 €) the difference is about 145 € per day, roughly 18 € per hour — around 20% of the countrywide average of 743 €.

Munich shows the highest average of the 11 cities compared, at 796 € per day (99 € per hour) — about 7% above the countrywide average of 743 €.

Bremen shows the lowest average of the cities compared, at 651 € per day (81 € per hour) — about 12% below the countrywide average of 743 €.

Among the 13 related technologies compared, average daily rates range from 690 € for ADO.NET up to 776 € for NuGet — that is 86 € to 97 € per hour.

NuGet currently averages 776 € per day (97 € per hour), about 34 € per day above the rate for .NET.

ADO.NET currently averages 690 € per day (86 € per hour), about 53 € per day below the rate for .NET.

All figures are calculated live from the hourly rates of the freelancers on FRATCH matched to .NET and its related technologies and locations; daily rates assume an 8-hour working day. The average is a weighted mean with outliers trimmed, the median is the middle value of the individual rates, and both refresh continuously as freelancer profiles change.