Microsoft Azure Daily Rates in Germany

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

Among the 30 related technologies compared, average daily rates range from:

620 € for Azure Virtual Machines → 917 € for Azure Stack

Microsoft Azure averages:

794 € per day

Azure Stack Azure AI Foundry Azure IoT Hub Azure Event Hubs Bicep Azure Monitor Azure Virtual Desktop Azure Container Registry Azure OpenAI Service Azure Synapse Analytics Azure HDInsight Azure API Management Azure Storage Azure CLI Azure Key Vault Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Application Gateway Azure Cosmos DB Azure Data Factory Azure App Service Azure AI Search Azure Policy Azure Functions Azure Machine Learning Azure Service Bus Azure SQL Database Azure AI Services Azure Logic Apps Azure Container Apps Azure Virtual Machines

120 240 360 480 600 720 840 €/day

What the benchmark shows

With an average daily rate of 794 €, Microsoft Azure sits mid-field in this comparison — 12 of the compared technologies above it, 18 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 132 € — around 17% 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.

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

714 € for Dortmund → 847 € for Stuttgart

Countrywide average:

794 € per day

Stuttgart Munich Leipzig Hanover Hamburg Cologne Frankfurt Berlin Dusseldorf Nuremberg Essen Dresden Bremen Dortmund

110 220 330 440 550 660 770 €/day

Frequently asked questions

Everything clients usually want to know about Microsoft Azure, in one place.

The average daily rate for Microsoft Azure in Germany is 794 € with a median of 800 €, based on an 8-hour working day — that corresponds to an average of 99 € per hour.

Based on the average daily rate of 794 €, a full-time month of 21 working days corresponds to about 16,666 € — the underlying hourly rate is 99 €.

The average of 794 € sits about 6 € per day below the median of 800 € (99 € 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 Dortmund (714 €) and Stuttgart (847 €) the difference is about 132 € per day, roughly 17 € per hour — around 17% of the countrywide average of 794 €.

Stuttgart shows the highest average of the 14 cities compared, at 847 € per day (106 € per hour) — about 7% above the countrywide average of 794 €.

Dortmund shows the lowest average of the cities compared, at 714 € per day (89 € per hour) — about 10% below the countrywide average of 794 €.

Among the 30 related technologies compared, average daily rates range from 620 € for Azure Virtual Machines up to 917 € for Azure Stack — that is 78 € to 115 € per hour.

Azure Stack currently averages 917 € per day (115 € per hour), about 124 € per day above the rate for Microsoft Azure.

Azure Virtual Machines currently averages 620 € per day (78 € per hour), about 173 € per day below the rate for Microsoft Azure.

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