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Jens O.

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Freelance Java Developer / DevOps Engineer

Leipzig
Jens O.

Last position:

Freelance Java Developer / DevOps Engineer at Unpublished defense company

  • Extension of OSGi modules in a complex communication solution
  • Debugging communication with Wireshark and remotely in the JENS test environment
  • Migration of tests from TestNG to JUnit 5 with Mockito and AssertJ
  • Updating vulnerable dependencies and improving code quality
  • Changes to the Vaadin frontend
  • Increasing test coverage
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Michael L.

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Development of B2B shop for curtain fabrics

Leipzig
Michael L.

Last position:

Development of B2B shop for curtain fabrics

  • Development of a B2B shop based on Magento 2
  • Plugin research and implementation, e.g. individual prices per customer
  • Implementation of custom adjustments
  • Quality assurance
  • Release management
  • Collaboration with the marketing team
  • Technologies: Magento 2, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Docker, Git
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Andreas F.

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Project Manager & Portfolio Owner for Infrastructure (Automotive)

Borsdorf
Andreas F.

Last position:

Project Manager & Portfolio Owner for Infrastructure (Automotive) at MHP Management- und IT-Beratung GmbH

  • Overall coordination of service providers for all infrastructure topics at a production site being set up in Baden-Württemberg
  • Design and finding solutions for internet connectivity, building office communication networks, setting up WLAN in production and administration buildings, IP address management, password policies, time tracking, access control systems, backup strategies, emergency power planning, operating concepts, cost planning, event management, workplace setup including laptop/mobile phones/telephony, remote support, print servers
  • Selecting suitable external service providers and planning to meet needs for spare parts, repairs, on-site service, network and workplace support including on-site system replacement by providers
  • Choosing suitable external service providers for facility management and building technology (fiber optic connections, data center infrastructure, cable ducts etc.)
  • Coordination with clients and service providers
  • Escalation management, schedule control
  • On-site presence for service meetings and managing service providers
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Peter T.

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Freelance Go Developer/DevOps Engineer

Leipzig
Peter T.

Last position:

Freelance Go Developer/DevOps Engineer at IONOS SE

  • Developed an API for customers to provide NFS shares in the cloud
  • Created Kubernetes operators and services with REST APIs in Go
  • Used LinuxKit to provision VMs

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Statistics of experts using Elasticsearch

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

23 years (Germany: 18 years)

Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig have 23 years of professional experience on average. It is 5 years more than in Germany, where the average stands at 18 years.

Position duration

2.2 years (Germany: 2 years)

Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig stay in a single position for 2.2 years on average. It is 0.2 years more than in Germany, where the average stands at 2 years.

Positions per freelancer

18 (Germany: 12)

Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig have completed 18 positions on average over the course of their careers. It is 6 more than in Germany, where the average stands at 12.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Operations

Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Operations.

Top industries

Information Technology, Tourism, Retail

Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig are most in demand in Information Technology, Tourism, and Retail.

Bachelor's degree or higher

75% (Germany: 93%)

75% of Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig hold at least a Bachelor's degree. It is 18% lower than in Germany, where the rate stands at 93%.

Master's degree or higher

25% (Germany: 50%)

25% of Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig hold at least a Master's degree. It is 25% lower than in Germany, where the rate stands at 50%.

Doctorate

25% (Germany: 7%)

25% of Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig have a doctorate (PhD). It is 18% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 7%.

Certifications per freelancer

2

Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig hold 2 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

German, English, French

Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig most often speak German, English, and French.

Speak two or more languages

100% (Germany: 99%)

100% of Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig speak two or more languages. It is 1% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 99%.

Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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17% of Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig charge less than €640 per day.
50% of Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig charge between €720 and €800 per day.
17% of Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig charge between €800 and €880 per day.
17% of Elasticsearch experts in Leipzig charge €880 or more per day.
<€640 €720-​800 €800-​880 €880+

The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Leipzig are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.

Average rates of experts in Leipzig using Elasticsearch

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 770 €
Germany avg. 776 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

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Median rate 760 €
Germany median 800 €

The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.

Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

Elasticsearch experts industry focus

See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.

  • Information Technology (83%)
  • Tourism (83%)
  • Retail (67%)
  • Automotive (50%)
  • Energy (50%)
  • Telecommunication (50%)
  • Banking and Finance (33%)
  • Healthcare (33%)

Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.

About the technology

Search and analytics foundation

Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene. It indexes structured and unstructured data so applications can return relevant results quickly, while teams use aggregations to explore events, products, documents and operational data. It is commonly known through the Elastic Stack, including Kibana, Logstash and Beats.

What it helps build

Elasticsearch supports customer-facing search, internal knowledge discovery and data-heavy operational tools. Typical projects include:

  • Product, catalog and marketplace search
  • Document, website and enterprise knowledge search
  • Log analysis, observability and security monitoring
  • Autocomplete, filtering, faceting and recommendations
  • Dashboards and near-real-time business analytics

Ecosystem and delivery skills

Strong specialists work with mappings, analyzers, tokenization, relevance scoring and the Query DSL. They understand shards, replicas, aliases, index lifecycle management and cluster health. Depending on the project, they also connect Elasticsearch with Kafka, relational databases, cloud storage, application APIs and the wider Elastic Stack.

When freelance expertise helps

Companies often bring in a freelance specialist when search quality has become difficult to improve, indexing pipelines are unreliable or a cluster needs safer growth. Expertise is also valuable during migrations from another search engine, the introduction of semantic search, or a redesign of observability data flows. In Leipzig, remote collaboration can support local product, manufacturing, logistics and software teams while on-site workshops remain useful for discovery and handover.

Signs you need a specialist

  • Search results are technically fast but do not match user intent
  • Reindexing causes downtime, duplicate data or inconsistent results
  • Query costs and cluster resource use are hard to explain
  • Log or event data lacks a clear retention and access model
  • Teams need a reliable migration, upgrade or performance review

What strong professionals deliver

A capable professional starts with user journeys, data quality and measurable relevance goals rather than only writing queries. They create suitable mappings, analyzers and ingestion pipelines, then validate results with representative data. They also document operational safeguards, monitor cluster behavior and explain trade-offs clearly to application, data and operations teams.

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Frequently asked questions

Not sure where to start with Elasticsearch? These answers cover the essentials.

Elasticsearch is used for full-text search, filtering, aggregations and near-real-time analysis of large data sets. Companies use it for product search, document discovery, log analysis, observability dashboards and security data exploration.

Elasticsearch is optimized for flexible search, relevance scoring and distributed analytics, while a relational database is usually the system of record for transactions and relationships. It can complement a database, but it should not automatically replace one.

Elasticsearch is often weighed against OpenSearch, Solr and managed search services such as Algolia or Amazon OpenSearch Service. The right choice depends on relevance control, operating model, integrations, governance and the scale and shape of the data.

A strong Elasticsearch professional often brings skills in Lucene concepts, REST APIs, Query DSL, data modeling and ingestion pipelines. Experience with Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Kafka, cloud infrastructure and application languages is useful when the work spans the full search or observability system.

The required depth depends on the risk and scope. A simple index and query setup may need focused search expertise, while relevance tuning, migration, high availability, security and production operations call for a professional who has handled comparable systems.

Yes. Elasticsearch work is often well suited to remote collaboration through shared repositories, dashboards, incident procedures and test data. For Leipzig teams, on-site workshops can still help with search discovery, stakeholder alignment and knowledge transfer, while clear English or German communication should be agreed early.

Ask how the professional would assess search relevance, mappings, analyzers, ingestion failures and cluster health before proposing changes. A strong Elasticsearch specialist explains trade-offs, tests with representative queries and data, documents recovery steps and separates application issues from index or infrastructure issues.

Clarify the source systems, document shape, query patterns, relevance expectations, retention rules and production responsibilities. An Elasticsearch professional should also confirm whether the work concerns Elastic Stack or OpenSearch components, who owns cloud operations, and how success will be evaluated.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Elasticsearch in their recent projects is 96 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 770 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Elasticsearch in their recent projects, 75% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 25% hold at least a Master's degree, and 25% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Elasticsearch in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Elasticsearch in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (33%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Elasticsearch in their recent projects are Information Technology (83%), Tourism (83%), and Retail (67%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Elasticsearch in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (83%), and Operations (67%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Elasticsearch

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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