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Java Daily Rates in Germany

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

How Java rates compare with related technologies

Among the 8 related technologies compared, average daily rates range from:

715 € for Java RMI → 820 € for Java AWT

Java averages:

769 € per day

Java AWT 820 € · 800 € JNI 811 € · 820 € JDBC 763 € · 760 € JNDI 760 € · 760 € Java Swing 756 € · 760 € JMX 739 € · 720 € JVM 720 € · 720 € Java RMI 715 € · 760 €
110 220 330 440 550 660 770 €/day

What the benchmark shows

With an average daily rate of 769 €, Java sits mid-field in this comparison — 2 of the compared technologies above it, 6 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 87 € — around 11% 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.

Java daily rates across cities in Germany

Among the 14 cities compared, average daily rates range from:

716 € for Bremen → 803 € for Stuttgart

Countrywide average:

769 € per day

Stuttgart 803 € · 800 € Essen 793 € · 800 € Frankfurt 787 € · 800 € Berlin 786 € · 800 € Dusseldorf 781 € · 800 € Cologne 772 € · 760 € Hamburg 768 € · 800 € Munich 765 € · 800 € Hanover 764 € · 800 € Nuremberg 746 € · 760 € Leipzig 742 € · 760 € Dresden 741 € · 740 € Dortmund 726 € · 720 € Bremen 716 € · 712 €
110 220 330 440 550 660 770 €/day

Frequently asked questions

The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to Java.

The average daily rate for Java in Germany is 769 € with a median of 800 €, based on an 8-hour working day — that corresponds to an average of 96 € per hour.

Based on the average daily rate of 769 €, a full-time month of 21 working days corresponds to about 16,153 € — the underlying hourly rate is 96 €.

The average of 769 € sits about 31 € per day below the median of 800 € (96 € versus 100 € per hour): a number of lower-priced offers pulls the average down, while the median marks the typical middle of the market — half of the freelancers charge less, half charge more.

Between Bremen (716 €) and Stuttgart (803 €) the difference is about 87 € per day, roughly 11 € per hour — around 11% of the countrywide average of 769 €.

Stuttgart shows the highest average of the 14 cities compared, at 803 € per day (100 € per hour) — about 4% above the countrywide average of 769 €.

Bremen shows the lowest average of the cities compared, at 716 € per day (89 € per hour) — about 7% below the countrywide average of 769 €.

Among the 8 related technologies compared, average daily rates range from 715 € for Java RMI up to 820 € for Java AWT — that is 89 € to 103 € per hour.

Java AWT currently averages 820 € per day (103 € per hour), about 51 € per day above the rate for Java.

Java RMI currently averages 715 € per day (89 € per hour), about 55 € per day below the rate for Java.

All figures are calculated live from the hourly rates of the freelancers on FRATCH matched to Java 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.

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