Java Swing Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used Java Swing
Fred Hauschel
Last position:
Software Architect and Developer at Personal project
A recurring problem in my own AI-supported projects: requirements analysis, use cases, and architecture decisions can be created quickly with AI support, but they remain hard to trace and scattered across Markdown files – knowledge is lost as soon as it is no longer in the context window. arknet turns requirements engineering and architecture knowledge into structured, verifiable data instead of plain text: requirements, use cases, and architecture decisions as a continuously linked knowledge graph, traceable from the requirement to the architecture decision – queryable for both people and AI agents alike. Technically based on RDF/OWL and its own MCP server.
Result: MCP daemon running, Docker image automatically published on GHCR, nine hexagonal modules, eleven ADRs (including an open-core licensing model). Requirements engineering and ubiquitous language hexagon active. Publicly available since 07/2026 as a Community Edition under Apache-2.0 (github.com/kogn-io/arknet), together with the Claude Code plugin and the GHCR image; open-core model.
Label: Java, Maven, RDF, RDF4J, OWL, SPARQL, Model Context Protocol, Spring AI, Docker, GitHub, Git, Claude Code, Obsidian, DDD, Hexagonal Architecture, ArchUnit, JUnit, AssertJ
Peter Fleischer
Last position:
Subproject Manager and Solution Architect - Microsoft 365 Transformation at Automotive Industry
Integration of highly regulated countries such as China and South Korea into a company-wide M365 tenant.
Technical contact for integrating special requirements for the executive board and German subsidiaries that are subject to BaFin compliance requirements.
Subproject management.
Coordination of requirements within the overall architecture.
Design of the use of DLP features from Microsoft Purview.
Design of special access restrictions via Entra ID Conditional Access.
Support in designing the provisioning of Teams teams and SharePoint sites with higher compliance requirements.
Technical support for implementing information classification with sensitivity labels for SharePoint Online and Teams.
Technical support for the subproject introducing CoPilot for M365.
Skills: M365, Purview, DLP, Entra ID, Sensitivity Labels, CoPilot, Teams, SharePoint Online.
Rahul Joshi
Last position:
Hybris Consultant at Bosch Digital
- Implement Hybris Commerce projects for customer.
- Provide technical implementation of Developer and Integrator portal using Hybris solution.
- Integration with Billing and Payment systems.
- Technical ownership of the solution.
- Introduce best practices in Hybris solution and Java technologies.
- Provide release support on AWS environments.
- Technical focal point for sales and engineering teams.
- Supporting engineering team to scope the requirements and in architecting & designing the solutions.
- Proliferate best practices from one project to others, Knowledge management.
Olaf Taesch
Last position:
BI Architect in a Kanban Team at Gulp / Randstad for HHLA
- Creation of automated tests.
- Extension of the functionality of the enterprise BI data warehouse.
- Design and development in SQL and PL/SQL.
- Data modeling as well as performance measurement and tuning.
- Creation of and contribution to user stories and concepts.
- Technical environment: Windows, Linux.
- Database: Oracle 19c incl. DWH, CDB, PDB.
- Tools: Confluence, CVS, Eclipse, Git, GitLab, Jira, N4, PL/SQL, SQL Developer, utPLSQL.
Ola Van Dunen
Last position:
IT Lecturer
- IT training in theory and practice for IT specialists in application development and system integration
Oliver Ohly
Last position:
Embedded Software Architect at Automotive supplier
Stellar SR6 G7 line, 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-R52+ MCU.
- MISRA-C, C99, Greenhills ARM compiler
- Dassault AUTOSAR Builder
- EB Tresos
- Sparx Enterprise Architect 16.1
- VS Code
- Python xml, lxml, NumPy and Pandas
ISO 26262, ISO 21434, hypervisor, key management, HSM. Tooling & automation. LieberLieber LemonTree + Sparx EA. Jira, Confluence, SharePoint. Git/Github. DevOps through Jenkins & Conan.
Mykhaylo Khazanovych
Last position:
Lead Developer Backend, Frontend, BPMN / Administrator at Main Customs Office, Department for Digital Affairs
- Development of backend, frontend and BPMN processes in the Atlas Centralised Clearance for Import project
- Definition and implementation of REST, JMS and SOAP endpoints
- Implementation of database access with JPA
- Implementation of BPMN processes with Camunda
- Frontend implementation with React
- Configuration of JBoss via CLI
- Conducting code reviews
- Participation in communities of practice for developers and architects
- Implementation of frontend-backend communication with WebSockets
Rainer Diekmann
Last position:
Enterprise Architecture Management / Backend Software Developer at Polizei Hamburg
- Several projects in a police context
- Model and document police procedures/projects with Archimate (as-is/to-be) in the context of P20 (BKA)
- Create software architectures with microservices
- POC development with Springboot/Docker/Kubernetes
- Project size: 10 people
- Enterprise architecture management with Togaf and Archimate
- Backend software development Springboot
- DevOps with Kubernetes
- Implemented using: Java 17/21, Springboot 3, P20 architecture, Togaf, Archimate
Timo Heck
Last position:
Software Developer at Continentale Krankenversicherung AG
- Implementation of a REST-based web service for querying contract, claims, customer, and sales data as part of the Dialogmanager project.
- Data release is done in compliance with CoC requirements and individual user permissions from IAM (Identity and Access Management).
- Implementation using JBoss EAP 8.1 (JakartaEE 10) and Java 21 as well as JAX-RS, CDI, Microprofile-Config, Microprofile-OpenAPI.
Alex Odesser
Last position:
Contractor at Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
- Data-analysis, Preparation, gathering and coordination of business requirements for retrieval of monthly- and long term (CLV – relevant) cost- and revenue-components per contract for a customer–base–grouping project (HUB–Project) for B2C-Postpaid-Controlling
- Concept and Implementation of cost- and revenue-KPIs calculation and corresponding CLV–reports (Oracle, Perl, SVN, MS SQL Server, MS Power BI, Serviceware Performance Analytics)
- Operational support of the HUB-Project – various ad-hoc reports, deployments, job-scheduling etc. (Oracle, SVN, BICSuite–Scheduler, DWSODA etc.)
- Analysis, implementation, retrieval and reporting of various physical and financial KPIs for B2P-Prepaid Business on an existing data-mart (Oracle, Perl)
Patrick Waldschmitt
Last position:
AI Software Engineer at IppenMedia
- Analysis
- Consulting
- Software design
- Development
- Automation
- Testing
- Deployment
- Architecture, development and deployment of various proof-of-concept applications around the integration of current AI interfaces including conversational, realtime voice, images and videos
- Developed best practices for working with agentic systems and AI in practice
- Created code templates
Martin Moser
Last position:
Test automation for trading software at Martin Moser IT Consulting GmbH
- Set up GUI test framework for testers and developers to easily create GUI tests
- Implemented automated GUI tests with QF-Test for stock trading software and PDF file comparisons
- Created comparison runs between different versions
Used technologies: QF-Test, Java, Jython
Minh Doan
Last position:
Project Manager / Business Analyst / Application Manager at Finance and Insurance
Introducing 5 different process applications for various teams
Release planning: scope and time management
Resource/capacity planning
Conducting sprint planning / retrospectives
Increment planning (multiple sprints)
Preparing steering committee meetings / reporting to the executive board
Coordinating / aligning with external suppliers / deliveries
Multi-project resource planning
Aligning with the business unit and development team
Identifying best practices with IBM BAW
Cost control and planning for the project team and external service providers
Collecting KPIs using LogScale
Analyzing application errors with LogScale / queries
Defining user stories / aligning requirements with the business unit and development team
Testing and defect tracking
UI/UX design of the application
Preparing and facilitating brown-paper workshop
Test concept, test data, test organization, test execution
Recording team velocity / metrics
Executing tests
Scripts for automated testing
Organizing tests with the business unit and IT
Recording and prioritizing defects
Setting up and operating the application
Setting up application monitoring with LogScale dashboards
Checking health endpoints with PowerShell
Post mortem analysis
Setting up incident management
Setting up problem management
Analyzing errors using LogScale queries and dashboard
Pre-processing data for AI
Conducting evaluation with AI language models (Meta Llama 3.3 LLM and deepset Haystack) and RAG
Installing runtime environments for LLMs (large language model)
Evaluating various LLMs
Installing RAG (retrieval augmented generation) and integrating with LLM
Extracting unstructured data with LLM and RAG
Project based on IBM BAW (Business Automation Workflow), WebSphere Liberty, Domea, d.3, REST, LogScale (formerly Humio), Swagger, PowerShell, JIRA, Confluence, Lucom Interaction Platform (LIP), Mattermost, Jabber
Michael Sartori
Last position:
IT & Test Consultant at Testing Experts GmbH
AI Readiness - Part 3: Creating an E-Book on the Use of AI in Software Testing
- Designing and creating an e-book on the meaningful and safe use of AI in software testing from the perspective of an experienced test expert.
- Using generative AI (ChatGPT, Perplexity Pro) as a sparring partner for structuring, wording suggestions and variant creation, with final technical review and approval of all content based on my own expertise.
- Developing practical opportunities and risks of AI in testing, with a special focus on collaboration between testers and AI instead of "tester vs. AI".
- Title: "11 Strong Reasons: Dream Team Instead of Rivals - Testers and AI Are Unbeatable Together"
- Subtitle: "How humans and machines form the perfect team in software testing—and why pure AI testing is risky."
- Planned use of the e-book as a basis for workshops, client presentations, or internal training.
- Technology: Generative AI, ChatGPT, Perplexity Pro, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, many years of professional testing experience, common sense.
Abderrahmen Sdiri
Last position:
Technical Team Lead at NTT Data Deutschland
- In-depth knowledge of agile project management with hands-on experience implementing Scrum and SAFe methods in cross-functional teams.
- Designed and implemented full-stack solutions using Spring Boot and React to deliver scalable and maintainable web applications.
- Led test automation initiatives with Playwright to ensure quality assurance and continuous integration in development pipelines.
- Designed and managed cloud-based DevOps pipelines using containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes on AWS.
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Statistics of experts using Java Swing
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
25 years
Position duration
2.1 years
Positions per freelancer
18
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
86%
Master's degree or higher
60%
Doctorate
12%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
98%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Germany 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 Germany using Java Swing
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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
Desktop UIs
Java Swing is the standard Java toolkit for rich desktop applications. It is used for internal business tools, control panels, forms, and complex data screens where a native Java runtime is already in place. Teams still choose it when they need direct control over layout, events, and long-lived enterprise software.
What specialists deliver
- Screen design with JFrame, JPanel, JMenu, and dialog windows
- Data-heavy components such as JTable, JTree, and custom renderers
- Event handling, validation, and user-flow improvements
- Integration with files, databases, services, and older Java systems
Strong specialists keep the UI responsive and predictable. They know how to structure listeners, manage threading, and turn complex workflows into clear screens.
Ecosystem and tools
Swing sits inside the Java platform and often appears alongside AWT, JavaBeans, and build tools like Maven or Gradle. It is also common in codebases that use JDBC, logging libraries, and modular service layers. In Germany, it often supports internal software in manufacturing, logistics, finance, and public-sector environments.
When freelance help makes sense
Companies bring in freelance expertise when a Swing application needs a refresh, bug fixing, or a new module without rewriting the whole product. It also helps when in-house teams need support for old javax.swing code, migration planning, or a one-off desktop release. This is useful for teams that want on-site collaboration in Germany or remote support in English.
What good work looks like
A strong professional with Java Swing experience writes maintainable UI code, separates presentation from business logic, and avoids brittle event chains. They test edge cases, handle threading carefully, and keep custom components readable for the next team. Clear communication matters just as much as technical depth.
Common search terms
People often search for Swing, Java Swing, or javax.swing when they need this skill. They usually mean the same desktop UI stack and want someone who can work inside existing Java applications. If the project is tied to older enterprise software, they may also expect experience with migration, cleanup, and support, not just new screen work.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about Java Swing — answered in short.
Java Swing is used to build desktop applications in Java, especially internal business tools, admin panels, and data-entry screens. It is common in systems that need complex tables, forms, menus, and custom workflows. Many teams still use it for stable software that must keep running for years.
Swing is a strong choice when you already have a Java desktop codebase or need tight control over mature UI behavior. JavaFX is often preferred for newer desktop work, while web apps make more sense for browser-first products. The right choice depends on the existing stack, delivery speed, and how much of the current application should stay intact.
A good Java Swing specialist understands layout managers, event dispatching, custom rendering, and threading. They should also be comfortable with debugging old code, improving usability, and keeping the UI responsive. For business software, experience with data binding, validation, and integration work is a strong sign.
A Java Swing project usually needs strong Java knowledge first. Useful adjacent skills include JDBC, Maven or Gradle, testing tools, logging, and working with REST or SOAP services. If the application is older, knowledge of legacy code cleanup and migration planning is often important too.
A simple Java Swing update may only need someone who has shipped similar screens before. A larger application with custom components, threading issues, or brittle legacy code needs a more senior specialist. The key is matching the freelancer to the actual scope, not just the framework name.
Yes, many Java Swing tasks can be handled remotely, especially screen changes, bug fixing, and code reviews. On-site time can still help when the software is tied to local hardware, secure internal systems, or detailed stakeholder workshops. In Germany, many teams use a mix of remote delivery and short on-site sessions.
Look for clear examples of desktop UI work, not just general Java experience. A strong Swing professional can explain how they handled responsiveness, custom components, and maintainable structure in past work. Good signs are clean code, practical testing habits, and a calm approach to older systems.
When people say javax.swing, they usually mean the Java desktop UI toolkit used in standard Java applications. In practice, they are searching for the same skill set as Java Swing, including windows, tables, menus, and event handling. The term often appears in older projects and source code, so a specialist should recognize it immediately.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Java Swing in their recent projects is 94 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 750 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Java Swing in their recent projects, 86% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 60% hold at least a Master's degree, and 12% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Java Swing in their recent projects have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Java Swing in their recent projects are German (100%), English (96%), and French (18%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Java Swing in their recent projects are Information Technology (95%), Banking and Finance (67%), and Automotive (49%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Java Swing in their recent projects are Information Technology (96%), Product Development (95%), and Quality Assurance (81%).
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