Headless CMS Experts in Berlin
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Berlin, who have recently used Headless CMS
Alessandro L.
Last position:
Vue Frontend Engineer at Savills
- Savills is one of the world's leading property advisors with 700+ offices worldwide. In Berlin, I built core digital solutions for the valuation business, replacing legacy Access-based workflows with an enterprise-grade web app built on Vue.js.
- Frontend Architecture & Scalability: Designed scalable Vue + TypeScript frontend architecture for internal enterprise applications, integrating a Symfony backend and interactive maps.
- Legacy Modernization: Led the modernization of legacy jQuery-based systems into maintainable Vue-driven applications, improving performance, maintainability, and efficiency across business workflows.
- PDF Report Workflow Automation: Engineered Twig-based automated PDF generation pipelines that reduced manual report preparation time by ~80%, saving approximately 12h per analyst/month.
- Design System & Frontend: Built a scalable SASS-based design system using mixins, maps, functions, and reusable UI patterns for consistency and long-term maintainability.
Marcus B.
Last position:
Alpecin.de - Dr. Wolff Group
- Development of a component library based on a design system for several international brands such as Alpecin, Karex, Linola and Plantur 39
- Integration of headless CMS, PIM and commerce solutions
- UI/UX development
- Prototype development
- MVP development
- API design and development
- SaaS development (whitelabel/multi-tenant)
- Headless CMS integration
- Design systems Digital signage
- Internationalization (i18n)
- Javascript
- Component library
- Tailwind CSS
- Storybook
- HTML
- Vue 3
- Storyblok
- Github Actions
- SEO
- i18n Theming
- React
Noël L.
Last position:
Freelance Senior Product Owner at Rewe Digital GmbH
- Interim Product Owner for two new applications as part of the introduction of a new bonus points program within the entire Rewe Group
- Coordination of cross-team planning (initiative management) and implementation
- Responsibility for product vision, roadmap, backlog and stakeholder management within an agile scaled product development team
- Successful Go Live with both applications on 2024-09-24
Alois R.
Last position:
Senior Fullstack Developer at brandung GmbH
- Opt-in RAG extension over tenant-owned data sources (SharePoint, Confluence) on existing multi-tenant enterprise AI platform
- Architecture: ADRs, solution evaluations, permission strategy, cost modeling
- End-to-end SharePoint and Confluence connectors: OAuth consent flows, token refresh, metadata sync, search integration
- Permission resolution: ACL indexing at ingestion and query-time verification (document-level security)
- Elasticsearch hybrid search (semantic + keyword) with RRF scoring
- RAG chat with context injection and source citations
- Stack: Elastic Cloud, Elasticsearch, Docker, Northflank, Next.js, React, TypeScript, Prisma, Microsoft Graph API, Atlassian REST API, OAuth 2.0
Gregor D.
Last position:
Founder, Principal Software Architect & Technical Consultant at Hold My Code GmbH
- Frontend modernization (multiple client engagements): Angular version upgrades, architecture refactoring, performance optimization, state management restructuring, and UI library consolidation resulting in faster load times and improved end-user experience across all projects.
- Web development: High-performance landing pages and company websites for SMB clients built with Next.js, SvelteKit, PayloadCMS, and TailwindCSS optimized for speed, SEO, and conversion.
- SaaS product development: Architecting and building an AI-powered platform for photography studio operators (PoC phase) with full-stack TypeScript: Angular frontend, NestJS backend, PostgreSQL, LLM integration (Gemini/Claude) for intelligent workflow automation.
- AI integration: Developed a PoC for AI-generated podcast avatars using the Gemini API for content production workflows.
- Angular deep dive workshops: Delivered 20+ workshops (3–5 days each, 8–10 participants) in a hands-on format where participants build a demo application modeled after their real business domain.
Tino T.
Last position:
Director Technology at Forte Digital Germany
- Leading 20+ staff in development, site reliability engineering, and architecture.
- Leading the group-wide agentic AI initiative (Norway, Poland, Germany).
- Hands-on solution architect and AI consultant for over 50% of my working time on client projects in the publishing sector – from local publishers to international corporations.
- Strategic consulting and technical implementation of AI workflow platforms (n8n, Workato).
- Developing prototypes for traditional, AI-based, and agentic AI workflows.
Daniel D.
Last position:
Full-stack web developer at birdeatsbug.com
- Fullstack development of our product: a web app (VueJS), Chrome extension (VueJS), SDK (JS), API (NodeJS), GraphQL server (Hasura, Postgres)
- Included development of multiple user-facing features, conversion of app and extension from Vue2 to Vue3, implementation of E2E testing system (Playwright), as well as debugging and refactors, on a team from 2 to 4 developers
- Deployment on Google Cloud Storage, including management of CI pipelines and jobs
Dine A.
Last position:
Frontend Developer (Astro) at Mindful
- Built marketing site for video app launch
- Implemented responsive UI and performance optimizations
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Statistics of experts using Headless CMS
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
16 years
Position duration
2.3 years
Positions per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Strategy
Top industries
Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Human Resources, Information Technology, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
57%
Certifications per freelancer
1
Most common languages
German, English, Italian
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Berlin are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates of experts in Berlin using Headless CMS
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
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 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Headless CMS 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 (100%)
- Media and Entertainment (75%)
- Professional Services (75%)
- Retail (63%)
- Education (50%)
- Cosmetics (38%)
- Energy (38%)
- Banking and Finance (38%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Headless CMS means
A Headless CMS manages and structures content without controlling the presentation layer. Content is delivered through APIs to websites, mobile apps, commerce experiences, digital signage and other front ends. This separation lets teams reuse content across channels while choosing the right web technologies for each interface.
Where it is used
Companies choose this architecture when content must reach several touchpoints or change independently from the user experience.
- Corporate websites and international brand portals
- Product catalogues and composable commerce front ends
- Editorial platforms, mobile apps and customer portals
- Personalised campaigns and connected digital services
Ecosystem and tooling
The ecosystem includes Contentful, Sanity, Strapi, Storyblok, Prismic and Adobe Experience Manager headless setups. Strong specialists work with REST and GraphQL APIs, webhooks, content modelling, role-based workflows and localisation. They often connect search, commerce, analytics, identity and deployment services to create a complete content system.
When companies need expertise
Freelance expertise is useful when a team is moving from a traditional CMS, launching a multi-channel platform or untangling content and presentation concerns. Specialists can define the information architecture, select a suitable product, plan migrations and establish governance. In Berlin, they may also support on-site workshops alongside remote delivery for distributed product teams.
What strong specialists deliver
A capable professional translates editorial needs into a maintainable content model rather than simply configuring fields. They design clear API contracts, preview flows, release processes and fallback behaviour. They also account for accessibility, performance, security, search visibility and editorial usability across every connected front end.
How projects stay reliable
Quality depends on more than the CMS brand. Look for professionals who can explain trade-offs between hosted products and open-source options, document integrations and test content delivery under realistic conditions. They should leave behind migration scripts, reusable components, environment controls and practical guidance for editors. German-language collaboration can help where local stakeholders shape content, while English is common in international teams.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around Headless CMS.
A Headless CMS stores and manages structured content, then exposes it through APIs. Companies use it to publish the same content to websites, apps, commerce interfaces, kiosks and other digital channels without tying content to one presentation layer.
A Headless CMS separates content management from the front end, while a traditional CMS usually combines authoring with page rendering. The headless approach offers more channel flexibility, but it requires teams to plan front-end delivery, previews, caching and editorial workflows separately.
A Headless CMS is often weighed against a traditional WordPress or Drupal setup, a hybrid CMS, and composable content services. The right choice depends on channel complexity, editorial needs, governance, integration demands and how much control the product team wants over the front end.
A strong Headless CMS specialist usually understands content modelling, REST or GraphQL APIs, webhooks and front-end frameworks. Useful adjacent skills include cloud deployment, search, commerce integrations, identity, localisation, accessibility, analytics and migration planning.
The right Headless CMS experience depends on the project scope, not only on the chosen product. A focused content model may need a different profile from a multi-brand migration with complex permissions, localisation, integrations and several publishing channels.
Yes, Headless CMS work is well suited to remote collaboration because models, APIs, environments and documentation can be reviewed online. Berlin-based professionals can also join on-site discovery sessions when editorial teams, product owners or stakeholders benefit from working together in person.
Ask a Headless CMS professional to explain a content model, API strategy, preview setup and migration approach in plain language. Review documentation, test coverage, editorial workflows and examples of how they handled performance, permissions, localisation and failure scenarios.
Contentful is a well-known Headless CMS product, but the term describes an architectural approach rather than one vendor. Other examples include Sanity, Strapi, Storyblok and Prismic, each with different hosting, modelling, workflow and extensibility choices.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Headless CMS in their recent projects is 91 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 730 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Headless CMS in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 57% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Headless CMS in their recent projects have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Headless CMS in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Italian (25%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Headless CMS in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Media and Entertainment (75%), and Professional Services (75%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Headless CMS in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Strategy (63%).
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