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Linux Daily Rates in Germany

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

How Linux rates compare with related technologies

Among the 14 related technologies compared, average daily rates range from:

726 € for Kali Linux → 861 € for SELinux

Linux averages:

764 € per day

SELinux 861 € · 788 € CentOS 825 € · 800 € SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 817 € · 800 € openSUSE 816 € · 800 € KVM 815 € · 800 € Arch Linux 802 € · 780 € Rocky Linux 800 € · 800 € Red Hat Enterprise Linux 798 € · 800 € Oracle Linux 795 € · 800 € Debian 789 € · 800 € Ubuntu 780 € · 792 € OpenWrt 766 € · 792 € Fedora 743 € · 756 € Kali Linux 726 € · 800 €
110 220 330 440 550 660 770 €/day

What the benchmark shows

With an average daily rate of 764 €, Linux sits mid-field in this comparison — 12 of the compared technologies above it, 2 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 171 € — around 22% 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.

Linux daily rates across cities in Germany

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

661 € for Bremen → 832 € for Stuttgart

Countrywide average:

764 € per day

Stuttgart 832 € · 800 € Frankfurt 798 € · 800 € Hamburg 782 € · 796 € Munich 772 € · 796 € Berlin 763 € · 800 € Essen 761 € · 760 € Leipzig 757 € · 760 € Cologne 754 € · 740 € Nuremberg 751 € · 760 € Dusseldorf 746 € · 760 € Dresden 733 € · 740 € Hanover 702 € · 692 € Dortmund 686 € · 680 € Bremen 661 € · 660 €
110 220 330 440 550 660 770 €/day

Frequently asked questions

Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about Linux.

The average daily rate for Linux in Germany is 764 € with a median of 760 €, based on an 8-hour working day — that corresponds to an average of 95 € per hour.

Based on the average daily rate of 764 €, a full-time month of 21 working days corresponds to about 16,037 € — the underlying hourly rate is 95 €.

Between Bremen (661 €) and Stuttgart (832 €) the difference is about 171 € per day, roughly 21 € per hour — around 22% of the countrywide average of 764 €.

Stuttgart shows the highest average of the 14 cities compared, at 832 € per day (104 € per hour) — about 9% above the countrywide average of 764 €.

Bremen shows the lowest average of the cities compared, at 661 € per day (83 € per hour) — about 13% below the countrywide average of 764 €.

Among the 14 related technologies compared, average daily rates range from 726 € for Kali Linux up to 861 € for SELinux — that is 91 € to 108 € per hour.

SELinux currently averages 861 € per day (108 € per hour), about 97 € per day above the rate for Linux.

Kali Linux currently averages 726 € per day (91 € per hour), about 38 € per day below the rate for Linux.

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