Top freelancers in Germany

Of the freelancers from Germany on Upwork, 337 of 3,842 earn $1k+ a month; the typical one makes $2.0k, the top $15k.

Leaderboards by city · 7

Showing 50 of 3,842Data updated Nov 8

# Freelancer		SinceMember since
Sylvie M. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Marketing MedTech Consultant	$15k0%	May 2017May 29, 2017
Florian S. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Amazon PPC Expert, FBA Consultant	$14k↑ 1%	Aug 2016Aug 16, 2016
Maksym N. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Software Engineer, Platform/Integrity	$13k↑ 17%	Jan 2008Jan 11, 2008
4 Humayun J. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Google Ads Specialist \| Certified SEA Expert \| 10M+ in PPC Managed	$12k↑ 3%	May 2017May 21, 2017
5 Christoph H. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Embedded & IoT Solution Architect \| Firmware \| Hardware \| C/C++	$11k↓ 3%	Feb 2024Feb 22, 2024
6 Christian F. 🇩🇪 NewNew🇩🇪 Developing & operating data management/analytics for healthcare	$11k–	Sep 2026Sep 8, 2026
7 Sören L. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Proofreader, Translator, Copywriter (English-German) - SEO	$11k↑ 1%	Feb 2025Feb 4, 2025
8 Dominic T. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Marketing Data & Tracking Expert	$11k0%	Jun 2017Jun 28, 2017
9 Diana G. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Recruiting & Human Resources \| Recruiting, Hiring Strategy	$11k↑ 9%	Apr 2026Apr 7, 2026
10 Ben J. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Senior Unity and Unreal Engine Generalist	$10k↑ 8%	Jul 2023Jul 5, 2023

Freelancer	MRR	Member since
11 Alejandro B. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer	$10k↓ 2%	Feb 2020Feb 14, 2020
12 Alexander B. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Senior Designer & Art Director \| AI-Assisted Video Producer \| UX/UI	$9k↓ 16%	Mar 2026Mar 30, 2026
13 Arthur L. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Google Tag Manager Certified \| Google Analytics \| GTM \| Google ADs	$9k↑ 5%	Sep 2020Sep 18, 2020
14 Faizan K. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Data Engineer \| Analytics Engineer \| dbt, BigQuery, Power BI	$9k–	Dec 2014Dec 24, 2014
15 Pavel P. 🇩🇪 NewNew🇩🇪 Senior C++ / Computer Vision Engineer \| Embedded AI \| Qt / GPU / Real-	$9k↓ 8%	Aug 2015Aug 27, 2015
16 Artur M. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 N8N Automation Specialist \| API and AI Workflow Developer	$9k↓ 4%	Nov 2022Nov 20, 2022
17 Vlad K. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Shopify SEO & GEO Expert \| Technical SEO \| CRO \| Shopify Developer	$8k↓ 5%	Jan 2021Jan 4, 2021
18 Payam G. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Senior Technical Product Manager \| AI Integration & SaaS	$8k0%	Jan 2023Jan 5, 2023
19 Christoph Georg B. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 3D Product Visualization & Animation \| Jewelry & Luxury Products	$8k↑ 6%	Oct 2016Oct 28, 2016
20 Diana May D. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Senior UX/UI Designer	$7k↓ 11%	Oct 2019Oct 23, 2019

Freelancer	MRR	Member since
21 Mohsin M. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Full-Stack AI Engineer \| AI Agents, RAG, Chatbot, n8n \| Python/FastAPI	$7k↓ 2%	Oct 2018Oct 27, 2018
22 Muhammad Usman S. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Electronics Product Software Engineer - Raspberry Pi - IoT - Python	$7k↑ 4%	Jul 2014Jul 24, 2014
23 Paolo C. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 AI Safety & LLM Integration Engineer - Python/Django	$7k↑ 9%	Mar 2013Mar 12, 2013
24 Omid Reza M. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Senior VoIP Engineer	$7k↑ 2%	Nov 2012Nov 24, 2012
25 Chris B. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Senior Product Designer \| UI/UX Design for B2B SaaS & AI Apps \| Figma	$7k↓ 5%	Oct 2025Oct 5, 2025
26 Tobias D. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Busy-Lancer \| Data Engineer \| Fullstack Dev \| AI Integrator	$6k↑ 1%	Oct 2023Oct 16, 2023
27 Benjamin T. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Generative AI prompting and content pipeline design	$6k↑ 9%	Jul 2024Jul 4, 2024
28 Andrej S. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 German YouTube Video Editor \| Long-Form \| VSL \| Social Media Short Ads	$6k↓ 12%	Jun 2025Jun 9, 2025
29 Mehrshad L. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 AI Infrastructure Observability \| Grafana LGTM, GPU & LLM Monitoring	$6k↑ 11%	Dec 2023Dec 29, 2023
30 Oliwer M. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Top-Tier Recruiting & HR Expert \| Talent Acquisition	$5k↓ 14%	Oct 2024Oct 13, 2024

Freelancer	MRR	Member since
31 Hossein F. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Building Energy Modeler	$5k↑ 6%	Dec 2022Dec 21, 2022
32 Youssef H. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Agentic and AI automations Engineer	$5k↑ 3%	Mar 2024Mar 26, 2024
33 André U. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Native German Translator, Proofreader, Linguist, English to German	$5k↑ 5%	Jan 2014Jan 17, 2014
34 Attia M. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Senior QA Engineer \| Manual, Automation, Accessibility & AI Testing	$5k↑ 4%	Jul 2016Jul 19, 2016
35 Kristijan B. 🇩🇪Private profile: Upwork shows its earnings only to signed-in members, so we check it every few weeks, not daily. MRR here is a rough estimate (Upwork's six-month earnings ÷ months active). Last read Nov 7, 2026.🇩🇪 Full Stack Developer	≈$5k–	Sep 2024Sep 27, 2024
36 Petra K. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Event Consulting	$5k↑ 2%	Jun 2023Jun 13, 2023
37 Mykyta B. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 1M+ Organic Traffic \| SEO Consultant \| Technical SEO, AI Search (GEO)	$5k↓ 11%	Dec 2022Dec 18, 2022
38 Zachary S. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Senior Software Engineer	$5k↓ 13%	Oct 2025Oct 16, 2025
39 Johann K. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Translator & Proofreader & Writer English/Spanish/Russian to German	$5k↑ 6%	Jul 2017Jul 31, 2017
40 Roi H. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 AI Solutions Engineer	$5k↑ 4%	Aug 2014Aug 12, 2014

Freelancer	MRR	Member since
41 Steffen G. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Founder-Focused SaaS Architect \| From First Idea to Paying Users	$5k↓ 2%	Jan 2026Jan 23, 2026
42 Vincent J. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Trading Bot & AI Automation Developer \| NinjaTrader, MT5, Python	$5k↑ 15%	Nov 2025Nov 2, 2025
43 Joy I. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Customer service \|Virtual Assistant \|Business Management	$5k↑ 5%	Oct 2025Oct 18, 2025
44 Andrey S. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Staff Engineer \| AI Integration, Automation, MCP \| 16+ yrs backend	$5k↑ 2%	Jul 2015Jul 31, 2015
45 Moritz K. 🇩🇪 NewNew🇩🇪 Marketing Specialist	$4k↓ 2%	Sep 2026Sep 22, 2026
46 Juan David A. 🇩🇪 NewNew🇩🇪 Video & Animation \| Motion graphics, Character Animation, Game Engine	$4k↓ 5%	Apr 2026Apr 16, 2026
47 Lukas T. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 AI Workflows, Agents & Pipelines \| RAG \| Next.js \| React \| LLM	$4k↓ 29%	Jul 2021Jul 14, 2021
48 Gilad L. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Operations Specialist (German-speaking)	$4k↑ 4%	Jul 2020Jul 5, 2020
49 Antonino S. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Wordpress and Salesforce Developer & Designer	$4k↑ 10%	Nov 2024Nov 7, 2024
50 Sandra S. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 Expert Pixel artist l 2D Illustrator l Game art l Print products	$4k↑ 9%	Dec 2023Dec 11, 2023

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