SWT Experts in Germany
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Ornel Franck Wora Yeno
Last position:
Purchasing Manager, Logistics & IT Manager at Onlinehandler
Proactive support of management in business field development & innovation management
New development of a suite of business applications for analyzing valuation, P&L, and market price risk data
Automation of all internal and external business and work processes
Development of AI-based and AI-supported ETL processes as well as data analysis
Business use-case development
Business and work process optimization
Enterprise architecture management
Sales data analysis and forecasting as well as capture
Inventory management & reordering
Supplier management and communication
Customs processing & clearance
Shipping handling & warehouse coordination
Interface management
Technologies used: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams, JTL-Wawi, JTL-WMS, OTTO Partner Connect (OPC), Amazon Seller Central, DHL Global Forwarding, Jira, Draw.IO, Java (8,17,21,25), Jenkins, SonarQube, Git, Gitea, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Vaadin, H2, PostgreSQL, Docker, Local LLMs, Postman, JasperSoft Studio, JasperReports
Vadim Bünger
Last position:
Dozent Applied AI at Digital Institut des Mittelstands GmbH
- Instructor for applied AI in the courses "AI Implementation Architect" and "AI Business Innovator"
- Running remote training sessions to qualify participants as "AI Implementation Architect" and "AI Business Innovator"
- Building n8n-based automations for the Digital Institut des Mittelstands
Kyu-Wang Lee
Last position:
Software Architect & Lead Software Engineer at Landesamt für Steuern Niedersachsen
The goal of BIENE is to provide a uniform program for tax collection for all states.
In tax collection, the aim is to collect the assessed taxes. This includes handling due dates, documenting incoming and outgoing payments, triggering reminders or refunds. Statute of limitations and payment reminders also play an important role. All payment transactions with banks and accounting are mapped in BIENE.
Setting up the architecture and coordinating the provisioning of development and test environments at the Hanover location
Installing and configuring environments on Linux servers (Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL)
Interface tasks: coordinating and aligning the integration of software products from other departments and their test data
Upgrading application server, JDK, Maven project structure
Environment coordination and build management
Implementing external interfaces
Implementing business requirements
Designing and implementing RESTful APIs and OpenAPI specifications
Designing and implementing microservice architecture
Setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Deploying applications on OpenShift
Creating technical documentation and diagrams
Working with SQL databases (Oracle and PostgreSQL)
Setting up authentication and authorization for the application and users
Containerizing the application (automated deployment via CI/CD pipeline)
Rainer Diekmann
Last position:
Enterprise Architecture Management / Backend Software Developer at Polizei Hamburg
- Several projects in a police context
- Model and document police procedures/projects with Archimate (as-is/to-be) in the context of P20 (BKA)
- Create software architectures with microservices
- POC development with Springboot/Docker/Kubernetes
- Project size: 10 people
- Enterprise architecture management with Togaf and Archimate
- Backend software development Springboot
- DevOps with Kubernetes
- Implemented using: Java 17/21, Springboot 3, P20 architecture, Togaf, Archimate
Timo Heck
Last position:
Software Developer at Continentale Krankenversicherung AG
- Implementation of a REST-based web service for querying contract, claims, customer, and sales data as part of the Dialogmanager project.
- Data release is done in compliance with CoC requirements and individual user permissions from IAM (Identity and Access Management).
- Implementation using JBoss EAP 8.1 (JakartaEE 10) and Java 21 as well as JAX-RS, CDI, Microprofile-Config, Microprofile-OpenAPI.
Martin Moser
Last position:
Test automation for trading software at Martin Moser IT Consulting GmbH
- Set up GUI test framework for testers and developers to easily create GUI tests
- Implemented automated GUI tests with QF-Test for stock trading software and PDF file comparisons
- Created comparison runs between different versions
Used technologies: QF-Test, Java, Jython
Fabio Fabrizio
Last position:
Senior Software Developer Backend/Frontend at Logistikunternehmen Bremerhaven
- Designed and implemented a slot management system for efficient control of truck arrivals and reducing wait times in logistics operations
- Requirements analysis
- Designed and developed a frontend with React
- Backend development with Spring Boot / JPA
- Designed and implemented REST APIs with Spring Boot OpenAPI
- Technologies: Spring Boot, React, Java, JUnit, Mockito, IBM Db2, SQL, Maven, JPA, Docker, Kafka, SOAP, REST, Git, XML, HTML, CSS, JSON, OpenAPI, Stoplight, Jenkins, WebSphere Application Server, Freemarker, IntelliJ
- Methodology: Scrum, Clean Code
- Team size: 5
Werner Keil
Last position:
Test Coordinator, Designer and Engineer at IBM
- Testing the SekIDP and related components
- Test design, execution and automation, microservices, GitHub Enterprise, Eclipse, Katalon Test Platform, API Testing, Confluence 8, JIRA/Xray, Draw.io, Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, Docker, Kubernetes, Podman, PuTTY, E-Health, Telematik, Gematik standards, EPA, E-Rezept, sektoraler IDP, encryption, XaDES, PaDES, DICOM, HL7, FHIR, IHE, ICD, SSO, SAML/Shibboleth, OAuth, smartcards, JWT, two factor authentication Android and iOS, Wireshark, BrowserStack, Cypress, gRPC, REST, SOAP, WS-Security, Linux Shell, PowerShell, SSH/SSL, Java, Kotlin, Cordova, Gradle, Groovy, Python, TypeScript
Jürgen Schoemaker
Last position:
IT Consultant / Analyst / Developer / Tester / Support at Automotive Manufacturer
- Analysis, software development/customization, and testing of various transaction and batch objects
- Conducting functional integration and regression tests on TEST and QA platforms under z/OS for later production implementation
- Hardware / Software / Tools: IBM MVS, z/OS, JES2/3, TSO-ISPF, JCL, DB2, SQL, SQL/PL, QMF, QMF for Workstations, SPUFI, FileAid, IMS-DB/DC, MFS, XPEDITER, COBOL, REXX, Windows 10, MS Office 365, MS Teams, batch job management via OPC, BETA92, RVS, BVB, ABL, DIALOGplus, PROBA, PRODPR (VW internal systems), JIRA, CONFLUENCE
Martin Zander
Last position:
Consulting, Design and Development at ivv GmbH
- Design, development and maintenance of a web application as a policy management system based on a JEE backend and a Vaadin-based UI
- Design and development of interfaces
- Integration of databases
- Design and development of unit and integration tests
- Conceptual coordination with the client
- Technologies and methods: JEE, Vaadin, EJB, Innovator, Hibernate, REST, JMS, SQL, MQ, Maven, Selenium, Arquillian, Mockito, JUnit, Log4j, OOA, OOD, Scrum, Kanban, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Jenkins, Jenkins Pipelines, Git, GitLab, Subversion, Jira, Confluence, DB2, WebLogic
Nandini Venkatesh
Last position:
Senior Software Developer at Capgemini Technology Services Limited
- Designed and implemented secure backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate, following microservice principles and RESTful standards.
- Implemented GraphQL-driven REST APIs to streamline backend services in a Gradle and Maven environment.
- Implemented OAuth2-based authentication and authorization mechanisms to secure RESTful APIs in Spring Boot applications.
Jan G.
Last position:
Master Data Application at confidential
Visualization, search, and maintenance of various types of master data, providing them via a REST API, and implementing a variety of import and export formats.
Implementation, architecture, project management.
Technologies and tools: Angular (Signals, Signal Store, swagger-codegen, standalone components), Java, PostgreSQL, ActiveMQ, JavaScript, Spring Boot (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Data/JPA via Hibernate, Spring Security, Spring Modulith), JUnit, Flyway, QueryDSL, GraphQL, REST API, Node, npm, Maven, SonarQube, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Nexus, OpenAPI + Swagger UI, Keycloak, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, IntelliJ IDEA, Jira, Confluence.
Gerhard Haunstetter
Last position:
Application Developer at Lila Logistik
- Supported the application
- Developed applications in COBOL
- Extended customer and in-house requirements
- Assisted in ensuring smooth operation
- Methods/tools: COBOL, HP3000, MPE/XL operating system, IMAGE database, Whisper (development interface)
Elvir Büyükbayrak
Last position:
Software Architect and Software Developer at Noctica IT GmbH
- NocTime time tracking, workshop planner, meal delivery service app
- LLM-based chat bot to control the NocTime time tracking system via voice input
- New and further development of customer solutions based on the Noctica SAS app framework
- Technologies: Java 17, Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular 20, Angular Material, React, C#, Docker, Bash, Git, GitLab, RedMine, SQL, DBeaver, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Python, TensorFlow, Ollama, various LLMs
Anton Klonov
Last position:
Head of Technical Overall Integration NSC / Hadoop Cloud Development at IABG
Head of technical overall integration NSC (National Secure Cloud project with about 60 employees).
Technical integration of all subprojects into one product, definition of interfaces, basic components of a cloud including hardware, technical architecture of the IABG base.
Development of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) that can create a private/mixed cloud of any complexity based on a textual description with one click or interactively.
CMP also includes the complete hardware management cycle.
As a foundation, it uses Kubernetes, OpenStack, and Hadoop.
The management layer includes Harbor, Gitea, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher and Jenkins, which are automatically configured.
The private cloud can run any customer workloads, including a full Hadoop stack with HDFS, Spark, MapReduce, Mesos, HBase and around 20 other ML/DL technologies.
Hadoop worker clusters can also be automatically installed on bare metal or commodity hardware without Kubernetes.
OpenStack with Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Swift, Cinder, Ceph.
Development of a Java application Rudi: SOAP, REST, containers, database.
Technologies: Kubernetes (K3s, RKE2, Minikube, Harbor, Gitea, Jenkins, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher), OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Swift, Ceph, Cinder, Sahara, Magnum, Kayobe, Kolla, Bigrost, Ironic), Hadoop (HDFS, Ambari, Solr, Livy, Ranger, YARN, Tez, HBase, Kafka, Hive, Zookeeper, MapReduce, Spark, Oozie, Flink), virtualization (Kubernetes (K3s), VMware, Oracle), scripting (Ansible, Puppet, Juju, Shell, Groovy, Gradle, Maven).
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Statistics of experts using SWT
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
25 years
Position duration
2.7 years
Positions per freelancer
16
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Insurance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
75%
Master's degree or higher
44%
Doctorate
6%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, Russian
Speak two or more languages
90%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates of experts in Germany using SWT
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
SWT UI work
SWT, the Standard Widget Toolkit, is used to build native desktop interfaces that feel close to the host operating system. It is common in Eclipse-based tools, internal business apps, and other Java clients where a responsive local UI matters.
Where it fits
- Eclipse RCP applications
- Desktop tools for operations and engineering teams
- Rich forms, tables, trees, and editors
- Custom plug-ins inside larger Eclipse setups
SWT is often chosen when teams want direct control over widgets and behavior instead of a browser-based shell.
Skills that matter
Strong SWT specialists know Java, event handling, layout management, threading rules, and native widget quirks. They also understand JFace, Eclipse RCP, and how to keep UI code maintainable as screens grow more complex.
When to bring one in
Companies usually need freelance help when an existing desktop product is hard to extend, when UI bugs appear on different operating systems, or when a new module must match an older Eclipse application. In Germany, this often comes up in industrial software, engineering tools, and enterprise back-office systems.
What good work looks like
Good experts keep the UI stable, avoid blocking the display thread, and make tables, dialogs, and forms easy to use. They write code that is clear, testable, and safe to evolve. They also handle SWT-specific details like listeners, resources, and platform differences with care.
Ecosystem and handover
SWT work often sits beside Eclipse, JFace, Maven or Gradle builds, and Java application code. A solid freelancer documents widget behavior, cleans up resource handling, and leaves the project ready for the next specialist to continue without guesswork.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with SWT? These answers cover the essentials.
SWT is used for native Java desktop applications with rich forms, trees, tables, and editors. It is a common choice for Eclipse-based tools, internal operations software, and other client apps that need a local interface rather than a browser UI.
SWT uses native widgets from the operating system, while Swing draws most controls itself. JavaFX focuses on a newer scene graph and a different UI model. Teams often pick SWT when they already have Eclipse-based code or want the look and behavior of the host platform.
SWT expertise helps when an old desktop product needs new screens, when a plugin must fit into an Eclipse application, or when the UI behaves differently across platforms. It is also useful when the in-house team knows the business logic but lacks deep desktop UI experience.
A strong SWT freelancer usually knows Java well, plus JFace, Eclipse RCP, threading, and layout management. Resource handling, event listeners, and a good grasp of native widget behavior also matter. Those skills help keep the UI stable and maintainable.
Yes. SWT projects are often handled remotely, especially when the expert can review code, reproduce UI issues, and test on the right operating systems. For sensitive internal tools, some teams in Germany still prefer a mix of remote collaboration and occasional on-site sessions.
SWT work on a small screen or dialog can be handled by a general Java specialist with desktop UI experience. Larger Eclipse RCP products need someone who knows the framework well and can deal with threading, widget lifecycle, and platform-specific behavior.
Look for clear layouts, responsive screens, and code that does not freeze the display thread. A good Standard Widget Toolkit specialist also documents widget ownership, handles resources safely, and keeps platform differences under control. Clean handover is a strong sign of quality.
It can be, especially if the product needs native widgets, an Eclipse-based setup, or close integration with existing Java desktop code. Standard Widget Toolkit is less common for greenfield consumer apps, but it remains practical for business tools and long-lived enterprise software.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used SWT in their recent projects is 94 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 754 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used SWT in their recent projects, 75% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 44% hold at least a Master's degree, and 6% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used SWT in their recent projects have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used SWT in their recent projects are German (100%), English (90%), and Russian (25%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used SWT in their recent projects are Information Technology (95%), Banking and Finance (70%), and Insurance (55%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used SWT in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (85%), and Project Management (65%).
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