
Java Experts in Switzerland
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Claus N.
Last position:
Oracle Database Engineer at BBV.ch
- Migration of databases from ODA to ExaData
- Migration of databases from ExaData to ExaCC/OCI
- Reduced UCC usage by 10%
- Developing automation scripts using Python
- Performance tuning
- Reduced development databases from 6 TB to 3 TB using Exadata columnar compression
- Improved application performance by 30% using the inmemory option
- Improved non-production Exadata performance by 20% to free up CPU resources before ExaCC migration
- Database patching of Oracle 19c
- Basic Ansible scripting for deployments and database cloning
- Developing an accounting model for a shared Oracle platform
- Migrating single-instance databases to Oracle RAC
- Analysis of RAC issues
- Advising development teams on how to migrate to RAC
Michael R.
Last position:
Project Manager, Hustler, & Hound “Project KPIs on the Internet” at Global-KPI
- Project management, Hustler (identifying the complete financial operations, including Sales, Pitching, Financial Analysis, & Business Models) and Hound (identifying real customer needs, including Research, & Analysis) to build an online project KPI system.
- The system enables users to make well-founded decisions to keep projects on track according to their key parameters or bring them back on track when there are negative deviations from the plan.
- Provision of a forecast in addition to the current status.
- Automatic calculation and display of KPIs based on project key parameters entered by the user.
- Skills: Project Management, Project KPIs.
- Problem Space: Co-Innovation Builder (CIB), Corporate Innovation Team Set Up, Team Profile/ Team Canvas, Design Thinking, highlighting people, creating customer personas, researching the market, defining the problem.
- Solution Space: Narrowing down the problem, how to turn ideas into solutions, how to turn solutions into a concept, customer journey, Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, prototyping, fine-tuning the prototype and Business Model Canvas, final pitch.
Max R.
Last position:
Senior ICT Solution Architect at ewb, Energy, Water
- Clarifying and discussing technical requirements and coordinating with the team
- Contributing to the objectives of the Digital Transformation Services unit and implementing them
- Analyzing, specifying, updating and delivering architecture models to implement digital solutions in line with business, data infrastructure and requirements
- Selecting suitable technical options for application design, considering interoperability, reversibility, scalability, usability, accessibility and security, and optimizing the cost/quality ratio
- Creating and maintaining concept documents, architecture models and other technical documentation
- Reviewing services to be provided and other documents for solution development
- Collaborating with the IT enterprise architect, business analyst, project manager, developers, testers and process owner on the design and documentation of technical specifications for new developments and enhancements
- Communicating concepts to relevant stakeholders and supporting them
- Participating in enterprise architecture activities and ensuring compliance with principles, standards and guidelines
- Monitoring compliance with defined designs at application, solution and enterprise levels
- Developing and testing existing and new solutions as required
- Supporting and guiding development teams in implementing new projects or maintaining existing products, taking on the product manager role if required
- Establishing and ensuring best practices in implementation, documentation, testing and packaging for distribution
- Contributing to the handling of reported incidents and requests assigned to third-level support, and following up as required
Mike B.
Last position:
Freelance UX-Researcher, Designer at Bodensee Schiffsbetriebe; Labhard-Medien
- UX research, UX concept development, and UX design for an AI dialogue system with information on events, locations, public transport timetables, and special trips. Observations, remote user tests, session recordings, analytics evaluations, RapidUserTests, prototyping, etc., using Figma/Figma Make, Claude Design, and OpenAI Codex (Design)
Banashankari N.
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager, Data and Integration Platform at MCH Group, Group IT
Led implementation of an Azure cloud-based, event-driven enterprise integration platform connecting Salesforce, Momentus(event) and ERP applications. Reduced overall costs by 60%, lowered operational errors to under 1%, and delivered on time.
- Led the full project lifecycle from initiation to delivery using agile and hybrid methods - platform vision, feasibility, technical blueprint, architecture, implementation, integration, testing, rollout and business adoption.
- Built the engineering team from the ground up, leading teams across Switzerland, Bulgaria and India using Scrum and Kanban; established Jira, Confluence, Asana and SharePoint for delivery and reporting.
- Established and managed frequent steering meetings, reporting that gave stakeholders transparency and drove key decision-making.
Urs S.
Last position:
CargoMonitor App at MSR Electronics GmbH
MVP app for shock logger to monitor and analyze transport data via BLE as a Kotlin Multiplatform solution for Android and iOS.
Christoph P.
Last position:
ICT DevSecOps Engineer & Security Coordinator at Abraxas Informatik AG
- Interface role with the SOC team; improved incident response time by 45% through structured escalation processes and proactive security monitoring.
- Defined technical standards for a multi-tenant enterprise platform (10+ services), resulting in a 30% shorter onboarding time for new clients in the public sector.
- Active knowledge transfer and mentoring of a 6-person team; increased team autonomy and established a sustainable engineering culture.
- Reduced time to market by 50% by optimizing CI/CD pipelines and establishing self-service deployments.
- Stack: GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Nexus, Harbor, ArgoCD, HashiCorp Vault, Grafana, Python, PostgreSQL, Java, Spring Boot, Flyway, Quarkus, JBoss, Loki, Go, Kafka, Kustomize, MongoDB
Andi V.
Last position:
Test Engineer at Crypto AG und Crypto International AG
- Defining and conducting system tests
- Supporting the automated test environment
- Evaluating tools for automated testing
Hanspeter J.
Last position:
Lead Consultant Salesforce DACH at DXC Technology
- Recording, validating and coordinating customer requirements
- Analyzing commercial processes at customers, as well as designing and implementing solution designs in Salesforce
- Designing and developing Salesforce architectures based on Sales and Service Cloud
- Maintaining and expanding own competence in order to know the new functions of Salesforce
- Taking an active role in the pre-sales phase and working closely with the sales and pre-sales teams
- Building and consolidating maturity within the team in new topics
- Actively helping to define and align own role within the DXC Best Practice
- MC Growth implementation
- AI Agentforce Agents Builder
- Agent Designer with elements.cloud
- Salesforce ORG assessments
- Process configuration mining
- Single point of contact for SFDC contacts global
- Project coordination with the EMEA and global head
- Proposal presales work with Salesforce AE and client partners for global accounts
Milan S.
Last position:
Cloud Architect & DevOps at Avaloq
- Main cloud solution architect on a banking SaaS offering hosted in Azure.
- Fully automated the Azure infrastructure in Terraform.
- Reduced cloud costs by 50%.
- Responded to incidents, found root-causes and closed with post-mortems.
Bojan A.
Last position:
Full Stack Developer with Angular at Further Education
- Highest level achieved: Certified Mid-Level Angular Developer
- 13 technologies newly learned or refreshed with (re-)certifications
- Current: Docker, Azure, Quarkus
Detlef W.
Last position:
Sourcing Manager at BEDAG Informatik AG
- Solely responsible for managing procurement operations
- WTO tenders in an open procedure
- Invitation process
- Direct call-offs and mini-tenders from framework contracts
- Simap.ch, SuisseOffer.ch, Confluence, Jira, Microsoft 365 applications
Markus S.
Last position:
Domain Architect Core Party Data at ING DiBa AG
Technologies: Confluence, PlantUML, BPMN
- As part of the modernization of ING DiBa, the master data management system is also being renewed. As the Domain Architect for this topic, I had to find a way to combine global solution approaches from the headquarters in Amsterdam with local requirements from the German branch in Frankfurt.
Yuri G.
Last position:
Senior Security Devops Engineer at Swisscom
- Implementation and maintenance of highly critical IAM solutions for B2B clients (SSO, MFA, SAML/OIDC, Entra ID, PIM/PAM)
- Security administration of Linux systems (CentOS, Red Hat) in Docker and Kubernetes environments
- Migration from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes
- Infrastructure automation with Terraform
- Planning and execution of risk assessments, threat modeling, and compliance reports
- Development and management of B2B applications (Java, REST/SOAP, Angular) and CI/CD pipelines (Python, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab)
- Leading integration tests and UAT (Cucumber, Selenium, Katalon)
- Implementing monitoring and observability strategies with Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk
- Integrating SAST tools like Snyk and SonarQube
- Release management and project coordination according to Scrum and SAFe
- Mentoring and technical support of junior team members
Christian B.
Last position:
5G Campus Product Advisor Telco at German railway group
- Definition of a product concept and end to end solution delivery (turnkey) for a Digital Efficiency Hub for Railway Maintenance based on 5G campus networks. Integration of various hardware and software systems in a comprehensive delivery with success metrics. Laise the concept and process across the enterprise. Compliant process definition and financial management with commercial model.
Technologies: 5G, RAN, SAP, Cloud, Enterprise Architect, Autonomous Robots, ITIL, CoBIT, TBM, BSI, ISO 27001
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Statistics of experts using Java
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years

Position duration
3 years

Positions per freelancer
14

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Government and Administration

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
88%
Master's degree or higher
63%
Doctorate
10%

Certifications per freelancer
4

Most common languages
English, German, French

Speak two or more languages
98%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Switzerland 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.
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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 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Java 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 (94%)
- Banking and Finance (74%)
- Government and Administration (49%)
- Manufacturing (46%)
- Professional Services (46%)
- Insurance (45%)
- Energy (37%)
- Healthcare (37%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Java is
Java is a general-purpose programming language and runtime used to build reliable software across servers, cloud environments, desktops and embedded systems. Its compile-once, run-anywhere model is supported by the Java Virtual Machine, making it a strong fit for long-lived applications that need consistent behavior across environments.
What it builds
Java is widely used for transaction-heavy backend systems, APIs, web applications, Android software and internal business tools. Companies in finance, insurance, logistics, healthcare, telecommunications and public services often rely on it for systems that must remain secure, observable and available.
- Design REST and event-driven services
- Build Spring Boot applications and enterprise platforms
- Connect databases, payment systems and external APIs
- Modernize monoliths into modular or cloud-ready services
Ecosystem and tooling
The Java ecosystem includes the JDK, JVM, Maven, Gradle, Spring, Spring Boot, Jakarta EE and Hibernate. Strong specialists also work with SQL databases, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services and testing tools such as JUnit. They understand how libraries, frameworks and runtime settings affect production behavior.
When to hire specialists
Freelance Java expertise is useful when a team must extend a core system without slowing delivery, replace outdated Java EE components, or improve reliability in a Spring Boot service. It also helps during migrations, API programs, security reviews and integrations where domain knowledge and careful technical decisions matter.
- A legacy codebase is difficult to change safely
- Releases need stronger testing and deployment automation
- Performance, resilience or observability needs attention
- The team lacks capacity for a defined Java workstream
What strong professionals bring
Experienced Java professionals write clear, testable code and make trade-offs visible. They understand object-oriented design, concurrency, memory management, API security and database access rather than relying on framework defaults. They can explain technical risk to product and business stakeholders and leave behind documentation that supports the team.
Working across Switzerland
Java specialists can support Swiss companies remotely or collaborate on site when workshops, regulated environments or close team integration require it. Projects often benefit from clear communication in English, German, French or Italian, depending on the stakeholders. Agreeing on architecture ownership, delivery boundaries and access requirements early keeps distributed work effective.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with Java? These answers cover the essentials.
Java is used for backend services, enterprise applications, APIs, Android software and systems that process important transactions. Its mature runtime, broad ecosystem and strong tooling make it suitable for software that must remain maintainable over a long lifecycle.
Java is often weighed against .NET for enterprise services, Python for data-heavy or automation work, and JavaScript or TypeScript for web application layers. The right choice depends on runtime needs, existing systems, team skills, performance expectations and the libraries required by the project.
A strong Java specialist may also work with Spring Boot, Jakarta EE, SQL, Hibernate, REST, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. Testing, CI/CD, observability and secure authentication are especially valuable when the work reaches production.
The right level of Java expertise depends on the system’s complexity, risk and current documentation, not on a fixed number of years. A contained API task may need focused framework knowledge, while a legacy migration or high-volume platform calls for someone who can assess architecture, dependencies and operational risk.
Java projects are often suitable for remote collaboration because code, tests, documentation and delivery pipelines can be shared digitally. On-site work may still help with regulated systems, architecture workshops or close cooperation with Swiss stakeholders, so access rules and language expectations should be agreed early.
Spring Boot is a practical choice when a team needs production-ready services with consistent configuration, dependency management and integration support. It can accelerate delivery, but the specialist should still control boundaries, security, testing and operational behavior instead of treating framework defaults as architecture.
Ask a Java professional to explain design decisions, testing strategy, failure handling and how the system will be operated after release. Review a small technical exercise or relevant case discussion, and look for clear code, useful documentation, secure defaults and evidence of thoughtful maintenance.
A Java assignment may involve extending a Spring Boot service, modernizing Java EE or Jakarta EE components, improving test coverage, or connecting systems through APIs and events. Freelancers should clarify the Java version, build tool, deployment environment, review process, access constraints and who owns architectural decisions.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used Java in their recent projects is 115 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 922 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used Java in their recent projects, 88% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 63% hold at least a Master's degree, and 10% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used Java in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Java in their recent projects are English (98%), German (94%), and French (48%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Java in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Banking and Finance (74%), and Government and Administration (49%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Java in their recent projects are Information Technology (98%), Product Development (86%), and Project Management (66%).
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