SWT Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used SWT
Ornel Franck W.
Last position:
Sales Partner at ERGO PRO
- Industry: Insurance, Trade, IT
- Customers & Projects: Consulting and selling insurance and similar services
- Main tasks: Insurance consulting (health insurance, retirement planning, wealth building); commercial services, inside and field sales; sales data analysis and forecasting; customer consulting and support; opening a new sales headquarters for private and business customers; business development & innovation management; business use case development; process optimization; stakeholder management; team leadership and training; preparation and delivery of trainings;
- Technologies used: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Draw.IO, Camunda 8, Java (8, 17,21,25), Git, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Data REST, Spring Web, Spring Security, J-Unit, Playwright, Lombock, Vaadin, H2, PostgreSQL (16, 17 18), pgAdmin, Docker, LLMs, JasperSoft Studio, JasperReports
Kyu-Wang L.
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)
Timo H.
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.
Rainer D.
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
Martin M.
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
Igor K.
Last position:
Freelance Software Developer
Fabio F.
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 K.
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
Anton K.
Last position:
Head of Overall Technical Integration NSC / Hadoop Cloud Development at IABG
Head of overall technical integration NSC (National Secure Cloud, project with approx. 60 employees).
Technical integration of all subprojects into one product, definition of interfaces and basic components of a cloud including hardware, technical architecture of the IABG platform.
Development of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) capable of creating private/mixed clouds of any complexity based on a textual description with one click or interactively.
CMP also includes the complete hardware management lifecycle.
Kubernetes, OpenStack and Hadoop are used as the foundation.
The management layer includes Harbor, Gitea, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher and Jenkins, which are configured automatically.
Private cloud can run any customer workloads, including a full Hadoop layer with HDFS, Spark, MapReduce, Mesos, HBase and around 20 additional ML/DL technologies.
Hadoop worker clusters can also be installed automatically without Kubernetes on bare metal or commodity hardware.
OpenStack with Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Swift, Cinder, Ceph.
Development of a Java application Rudi: SOAP, REST, containers, DB.
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).
Dimitri S.
Last position:
Fullstack Developer, Integrator at Generali Deutschland Versicherung AG
- Developing automated build and deployment processes for the exclusive front office systems
- Integrating the front office systems into the IT infrastructure
- Developing innovative, user-friendly sales software for financial advisors
- Ensuring quality and flexibility through automation and working with CI/CD
- Working according to DevOps principles
- Operating the software together as a team in the AWS cloud and Azure cloud
- Deploying software artifacts to testing and production environments
- Maintaining the test environments
- Performing error analysis and providing information for further root cause analysis
- Maintaining and supporting the build pipeline
- Supporting load testing
- Coordinating the batch execution schedule with batch automation
- Creating concepts to further develop the software packaging process
- Building and delivering components to partners
- Developing GitLab and Jenkins pipelines for building, deploying and integrating components
- Automating processes with Spring Boot applications with a GUI (Thymeleaf, Angular 19)
- Developing RESTful Spring Boot applications with Kotlin and Angular 19, JDBC and REST accesses, data exchange via SFTP, XML (JAXB)
- Designing components using Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Replacing cmd and bash scripts with Spring Boot applications with a GUI
- Replacing Java 8 applications with JSP by Spring Boot 3 applications (Thymeleaf, Angular)
- Implementing frontend and backend authentication via Keycloak
- Writing JUnit tests with Mockito
- Increasing code coverage for SonarQube analysis
Martin Z.
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 V.
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.
Jaya V.
Last position:
Software Engineer at Bosch Global Software Technologies Limited
- Developed AUTOSAR applications using Eclipse RCP for RTA-CAR AUTOSAR stack from ETAS
- Collaborated with Platform and Isolar-A teams on ASW development and testing workflows
- Implemented UI automation testing using Java SWTBot framework, enhancing regression coverage
- Built microservices-based applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Angular for internal tooling
- Enhanced AUTOSAR toolchain reliability through cross-team collaboration in development and testing
Gerhard H.
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)
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Statistics of experts using SWT
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years
Position duration
2.7 years
Positions per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Insurance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
78%
Master's degree or higher
50%
Doctorate
6%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, Russian
Speak two or more languages
86%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 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 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
SWT 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 (100%)
- Banking and Finance (68%)
- Insurance (55%)
- Manufacturing (55%)
- Government and Administration (45%)
- Retail (45%)
- Automotive (41%)
- Healthcare (32%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Desktop foundations
SWT, or Standard Widget Toolkit, is Java’s framework for building desktop user interfaces with native operating-system widgets. It powers responsive applications for Windows, Linux and macOS where a consistent Java runtime must still feel familiar to the user. SWT is closely associated with the Eclipse ecosystem and desktop products built on Eclipse RCP.
Eclipse ecosystem
SWT specialists often work across Eclipse RCP, JFace, OSGi and the Eclipse plug-in model. JFace adds higher-level viewers, actions, dialogs and resource handling, while SWT provides the underlying controls, layouts and event loop. Strong knowledge of threading, resource disposal and platform differences is central to reliable applications.
- Design views, forms, dialogs and navigation
- Build Eclipse plug-ins and RCP products
- Connect interfaces to Java services and data sources
- Package and maintain desktop releases
What companies build
SWT appears in engineering tools, scientific software, financial workstations, enterprise utilities and device-control applications. It suits products that need rich local interaction, hardware access, offline workflows or tight integration with the operating system. Teams may also use it to modernize established Java desktop software without replacing its core domain logic.
When specialists help
Companies bring in freelance SWT expertise when an established desktop product needs a new interface, an Eclipse RCP migration or a difficult platform issue resolved. Support may cover UI architecture, performance, accessibility, native integration, testing and release automation. In Germany, remote collaboration is common, while on-site work can help with regulated environments, hardware or long-running product teams.
- Replace fragile SWT event handling
- Improve startup time and interface responsiveness
- Upgrade Eclipse platform dependencies
- Stabilize cross-platform packaging
Connected skills
Useful SWT professionals combine Java with object-oriented design, build tooling and desktop testing. Depending on the project, they may work with Maven or Tycho, Git, OSGi services, REST APIs, SQL databases and continuous integration. Experience with Swing or JavaFX can help when comparing UI approaches, but SWT requires its own lifecycle and native-resource discipline.
Signs of quality
A strong SWT professional separates presentation, domain and integration concerns instead of placing business logic inside listeners. They manage display-thread rules, dispose images and fonts correctly, and test behavior across the target operating systems. Clear documentation, reproducible builds and careful handling of accessibility and keyboard navigation are good indicators of dependable work.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with SWT? These answers cover the essentials.
SWT is used to build Java desktop applications with native controls, windows, menus, tables and other interface elements. It is common in Eclipse RCP products, engineering tools, enterprise software and applications that need offline or operating-system-level interaction.
Standard Widget Toolkit uses native widgets through a Java API, while Swing draws most controls itself and JavaFX provides a newer scene-graph-based UI model. The right choice depends on the existing codebase, platform requirements, visual design and support needs rather than on a universal ranking.
A capable SWT specialist should usually understand Java, event-driven programming and desktop threading. Eclipse RCP, JFace, OSGi, Tycho, Maven, automated testing and native packaging are also valuable when the application belongs to the Eclipse ecosystem.
The need depends on the application’s age, platform scope and technical risk. A small interface change may suit a general Java professional with SWT familiarity, while a large Eclipse RCP modernization needs someone who understands widget lifecycles, plug-in boundaries and release packaging in depth.
Eclipse SWT projects can usually be handled remotely with a shared repository, reproducible builds and access to the required operating systems. On-site collaboration in Germany may still be useful when the software connects to lab equipment, restricted networks or hardware that cannot be reproduced remotely.
SWT is a practical choice when native desktop behavior, Java integration or an existing Eclipse platform matters. It is less suitable when the product is primarily browser-based, needs a highly custom visual layer or must run across many client environments with minimal local installation.
Working with SWT often involves maintaining mature desktop products as well as delivering new screens and plug-ins. Freelancers may need to understand unfamiliar domain logic, coordinate with Java and product teams, and support several operating systems during testing and release.
Review whether the Standard Widget Toolkit implementation keeps UI updates on the display thread, disposes native resources and separates presentation from business logic. Ask for evidence of cross-platform testing, accessible keyboard behavior, stable packaging and clear handling of SWT and JFace dependencies.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used SWT in their recent projects is 93 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 744 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used SWT in their recent projects, 78% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 50% 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 21 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 (86%), and Russian (23%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used SWT in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (68%), 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 (91%), and Quality Assurance (64%).
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