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Microsoft Windows Daily Rates in Germany

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

How Microsoft Windows rates compare with related technologies

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

629 € for BitLocker → 838 € for Hyper-V

Microsoft Windows averages:

785 € per day

Hyper-V 838 € · 800 € Windows Phone 838 € · 920 € Microsoft COM 792 € · 760 € Microsoft IIS 773 € · 760 € Windows Server 771 € · 760 € Windows CE 760 € · 760 € UWP 759 € · 800 € Group Policy 749 € · 736 € MSI 708 € · 720 € WinUI 703 € · 720 € Win32 API 694 € · 640 € WSL 674 € · 680 € Remote Desktop Protocol 660 € · 600 € BitLocker 629 € · 640 €
120 240 360 480 600 720 840 €/day

What the benchmark shows

With an average daily rate of 785 €, Microsoft Windows sits mid-field in this comparison — 3 of the compared technologies above it, 11 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 154 € — around 20% 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.

Microsoft Windows daily rates across cities in Germany

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

709 € for Bremen → 863 € for Stuttgart

Countrywide average:

785 € per day

Stuttgart 863 € · 800 € Dusseldorf 821 € · 800 € Munich 801 € · 800 € Frankfurt 799 € · 800 € Essen 787 € · 800 € Cologne 785 € · 760 € Leipzig 767 € · 780 € Hamburg 766 € · 760 € Berlin 757 € · 800 € Nuremberg 730 € · 740 € Dortmund 726 € · 720 € Hanover 724 € · 680 € Dresden 718 € · 720 € Bremen 709 € · 680 €
110 220 330 440 550 660 770 €/day

Frequently asked questions

Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Microsoft Windows.

The average daily rate for Microsoft Windows in Germany is 785 € with a median of 800 €, based on an 8-hour working day — that corresponds to an average of 98 € per hour.

Based on the average daily rate of 785 €, a full-time month of 21 working days corresponds to about 16,481 € — the underlying hourly rate is 98 €.

The average of 785 € sits about 15 € per day below the median of 800 € (98 € 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 (709 €) and Stuttgart (863 €) the difference is about 154 € per day, roughly 19 € per hour — around 20% of the countrywide average of 785 €.

Stuttgart shows the highest average of the 14 cities compared, at 863 € per day (108 € per hour) — about 10% above the countrywide average of 785 €.

Bremen shows the lowest average of the cities compared, at 709 € per day (89 € per hour) — about 10% below the countrywide average of 785 €.

Among the 14 related technologies compared, average daily rates range from 629 € for BitLocker up to 838 € for Hyper-V — that is 79 € to 105 € per hour.

Hyper-V currently averages 838 € per day (105 € per hour), about 54 € per day above the rate for Microsoft Windows.

BitLocker currently averages 629 € per day (79 € per hour), about 156 € per day below the rate for Microsoft Windows.

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