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Hannes W.

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Self-employed Developer

Leipzig
Hannes W.

Last position:

intermedix GmbH / CGM Deutschland AG

  • Rule-based software for managing, planning, and providing promotional materials in the pharmaceutical industry

  • High performance, high availability

  • Fullstack, DevOps (CI/CD)

  • Python, PostgreSQL, Vue.js, Typescript, Docker, Docker-Compose, Nginx

  • Successfully transformed old Excel-based processes into an optimized product that has been in production since 2024

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Yutong W.

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AI Engineering Working Student

Leipzig
Yutong W.

Last position:

AI Engineering Working Student at Siemens AG

  • Developed a fully local, privacy-friendly RAG chatbot for querying PDFs containing both text and tables.
  • Enabled semantic search across multiple documents and built a user-friendly Chainlit UI with rating (1–5) and feedback functionality.
  • Designed a reward model for fine-tuning the LLM based on user feedback.
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José C.

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Research Associate | Python Developer

Leipzig
José C.

Last position:

Research Associate | Python Developer at ICCAS

  • Worked as a research associate in medical technology focusing on interoperability and system integration of medical devices
  • Developed software solutions in Python to connect devices using the SDC11073 standardized communication protocol (Service-oriented Device Connectivity)
  • Integrated and controlled distributed medical systems using service-oriented architectures
  • Designed and implemented a service orchestrator for dynamic management of medical functions and data streams in a research project on mobile and nomadic networked healthcare systems
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Sebastián K.

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Smart Charging

Leipzig
Sebastián K.

Last position:

Smart Charging at Mercedes-Benz, MBTI

  • Agile software development in an interdisciplinary environment

  • Cross-team collaboration to achieve important milestones

  • Independently developing new and improving existing features

  • Estimation, refinement, implementation, and presentation

  • Finding solution ideas, analyzing problems, rolling out bug fixes

  • Writing automated tests, manual testing, log and error analysis

  • Ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of the production environment

  • Rolling out releases and multi-stage infrastructure

  • Setting up alerts and monitoring

  • Pair programming, code reviews, documentation

  • On-call duty, 3rd level support

  • Event-Driven Architecture, Clean Code, Hexagonal Architecture

  • Microservices based on Go (Gin), Java 21 (Spring Boot 3), Python (FastAPI)

  • Terraform/OpenTofu, KQL, SQL, JSON, REST, Helm, ArgoCD, AzureCLI, K9s, OAuth2

  • Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Azure EventHub, Kubernetes, nginx, Ingress

  • AppInsights, LogAnalytics, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, OpenAPI 3, Swagger

  • Azure DataExplorer, Storage, KeyVault, Container Registry, Azure Functions,…

  • Junit5/Jupiter, testify, RestAssured, Docker Compose, Wiremock

  • IntelliJ, Scrum, Kanban, Teams, Confluence, OpsGenie, Arc42

  • GitHub CI/CD, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps

  • EV charging protocols (EVSE, OCPP, V1G, V2G)

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Statistics of experts using Visual Studio Code

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

15 years (Germany: 18 years)

Visual Studio Code experts in Leipzig have 15 years of professional experience on average. It is 3 years less than in Germany, where the average stands at 18 years.

Position duration

2.2 years (Germany: 5.2 years)

Visual Studio Code experts in Leipzig stay in a single position for 2.2 years on average. It is 3 years less than in Germany, where the average stands at 5.2 years.

Positions per freelancer

7 (Germany: 12)

Visual Studio Code experts in Leipzig have completed 7 positions on average over the course of their careers. It is 5 fewer than in Germany, where the average stands at 12.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Research and Development

Visual Studio Code experts in Leipzig have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Research and Development.

Top industries

Information Technology, Education, Energy

Visual Studio Code experts in Leipzig are most in demand in Information Technology, Education, and Energy.

Bachelor's degree or higher

100% (Germany: 92%)

100% of Visual Studio Code experts in Leipzig hold at least a Bachelor's degree. It is 8% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 92%.

Master's degree or higher

67% (Germany: 58%)

67% of Visual Studio Code experts in Leipzig hold at least a Master's degree. It is 9% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 58%.

Certifications per freelancer

1 (Germany: 2)

Visual Studio Code experts in Leipzig hold 1 professional certification on average. It is 1 fewer than in Germany, where the average stands at 2.

Most common languages

German, English, Spanish

Visual Studio Code experts in Leipzig most often speak German, English, and Spanish.

Speak two or more languages

100% (Germany: 97%)

100% of Visual Studio Code experts in Leipzig speak two or more languages. It is 3% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 97%.

Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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33% of Visual Studio Code experts in Leipzig charge less than €480 per day.
33% of Visual Studio Code experts in Leipzig charge between €640 and €720 per day.
33% of Visual Studio Code experts in Leipzig charge €800 or more per day.
<€480 €640-​720 €800+

The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Leipzig are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.

Average rates of experts in Leipzig using Visual Studio Code

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 641 €
Germany avg. 724 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

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Median rate 684 €
Germany median 720 €

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 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

Visual Studio Code 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%)
  • Education (67%)
  • Energy (50%)
  • Media and Entertainment (50%)
  • Automotive (33%)
  • Healthcare (33%)
  • Manufacturing (33%)
  • Government and Administration (33%)

Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.

About the technology

What Visual Studio Code does

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight, extensible source-code editor from Microsoft. It supports editing, debugging, version control and terminal work across web, cloud, data and software projects. Its flexible workspace model lets teams keep one consistent environment across local machines, containers and remote systems.

Core capabilities

The editor combines syntax highlighting, intelligent completion, refactoring, breakpoints and integrated testing. Specialists configure settings, workspaces and profiles around a team’s languages and delivery process. They also use the command palette, tasks, snippets and source control views to reduce repetitive work without hiding important project details.

Ecosystem and tooling

Visual Studio Code connects with a broad extension ecosystem and common engineering tools:

  • JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, Go and Rust workflows
  • Git, GitHub, GitLab and pull-request reviews
  • Docker, Dev Containers, WSL and remote development
  • ESLint, Prettier, language servers and test runners
  • Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform and cloud command-line tools

Where companies use it

Companies use the editor for frontend and backend applications, APIs, automation scripts, data workflows and infrastructure configuration. It also supports documentation, notebooks and technical content. In Leipzig, specialists may contribute to software teams in manufacturing, logistics, mobility, services and research while working remotely or joining on-site sessions when collaboration requires it.

When to bring in expertise

Freelance expertise helps when a team needs a reliable development setup, a complex extension configuration or a faster transition to remote and container-based work.

  • Standardize settings, extensions and workspace files across teams
  • Move projects from another editor or IDE without disrupting delivery
  • Configure debugging, testing, tasks and launch profiles
  • Build or maintain a Visual Studio Code extension
  • Resolve performance, language-server or remote-development issues

What strong specialists bring

Strong professionals understand the editor and the systems around it. They can distinguish an editor configuration problem from a build, dependency or environment problem, then document a solution others can maintain. Look for practical experience with the project’s languages, Git workflow, CI pipelines, containers and security requirements, plus clear communication in the languages the team uses.

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Frequently asked questions

Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Visual Studio Code.

Visual Studio Code is used to write, review, debug and test code across many languages. Teams also use it for Git workflows, terminals, notebooks, infrastructure files, documentation and remote development.

Visual Studio Code starts as a lightweight editor and gains deeper language support through extensions. A full IDE may include more integrated project features out of the box, while Visual Studio Code offers a flexible setup that can fit mixed-language and web-focused teams.

A strong Visual Studio Code specialist should understand the project’s languages, Git, testing and build tools. Docker, Dev Containers, CI pipelines, language servers, cloud command-line tools and security practices are also useful when the editor is part of a wider delivery workflow.

The required level depends on the work. A workspace standardization task may need focused configuration experience, while extension development, remote containers or complex debugging calls for a professional who understands the underlying language tooling and delivery environment.

Visual Studio Code supports remote work through SSH, WSL, containers and browser-based options. A Leipzig team can collaborate remotely with a specialist and arrange on-site workshops when access, onboarding or communication benefits from being together.

Visual Studio Code can fit enterprise work when teams define approved extensions, settings, repositories and security controls. Specialists should account for identity management, network restrictions, dependency policies, audit needs and consistent onboarding rather than treating the editor as an isolated tool.

Ask how the Visual Studio Code specialist has diagnosed slow workspaces, broken language support or inconsistent team setups. Good professionals explain trade-offs, keep configuration reproducible, document decisions and verify that debugging, testing and source control work for the whole team.

Yes. Visual Studio Code extensions can add commands, language features, views, debuggers, integrations and custom workflows. A freelancer should be comfortable with the extension API, TypeScript, packaging, testing, updates and the permissions or data access the extension requires.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Visual Studio Code in their recent projects is 80 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 641 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Visual Studio Code in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 67% hold at least a Master's degree.

On average, freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Visual Studio Code in their recent projects have 15 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Visual Studio Code in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (33%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Visual Studio Code in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Education (67%), and Energy (50%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Visual Studio Code in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (67%), and Research and Development (67%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Visual Studio Code

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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