Happy Wednesday, Freelancers!

Freelancermap is continuing to gather and share important statistics about freelance work. You can see some preliminary results on our banner in this post.

Our Freelancer Survey is still running until May 31, so we encourage you to share your experience with us. It just takes several minutes to participate in the survey and will help you focus on the most important questions affecting your income. Here is the link to the survey: Freelancer Survey 2022

Happy freelancing!

Freelance Data DevOps Engineer

Freelance Data DevOps Engineer
Location: Berlin (80% remote)
Length: 4 months with extension
Industry: Transport and Logistics

REMOTE UX Researcher

Project details:

• Starting period: 01.06.2022
• Ending period: 01.12.2022 (possible extension)
• Full-time (5 days/week)
• Location: Remote
• Languages: English
• Based in Europe

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years in end-to-end User Research
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Analytical and strategic thinking
• International environment

React Developer - Remote

Experience:
Strong experience using React.js on web-focused projects
- Strong experience with typenoscript
- Strong experience using HTML/CSS and UI components
- Demonstrable experience working within a cloud environment, ideally AWS
- Worked on customer-facing E-commerce platforms predominantly

REMOTE Application Manager

Project details:

• Starting period: Asap
• Ending period: 30.09.2022 (possible extension)
• Part-time: 4 days/week
• Location: Remote/Eisenhüttenstadt
• Languages: German

Experience:

• Support application software and create requirements for this software, recording, analyzing and evaluating the requirements
• Cross-IT process understanding
• Personal responsibility, flexibility and teamwork
• Knowledge of municipal environment and OZG

Happy Thursday, freelancers!

The team of the German platform Freelancermap.com greets the community of freelancers and IT
professionals and hopes to continue to be useful for you in 2023.
Pursuing the goal of helping you to find remote job in Europe, Freelancermap.com announces special
discount for premium accounts, valid until January 23, 2023.

By upgrading your free account to premium account, you get the following benefits:
• increasing the attractiveness of your profile for potential clients
• absence of limits on sending offers to clients
• your ability to see who has visited your profile and uploaded your CV
• unlimited messages from potential clients
• getting valuable statistics about your profile.

The 25% for premium accounts on Freelancermap.com is provided until January 23, 2023.

During this period you can purchase an annual premium-account for €125.91 (was €167.88) or use
premium-account for the first month for €18.74 (was €24.99)
The promo-code to access the discount is: newyear2023

Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us using the Contact Us page on Freelancermap.com website.
Wishing you successful projects and many new clients.
Best,
Your Freelancermap Team

Software Developer (Golang) - Outside - Remote

Location: Remote
Day rate: £500-550
Starting: ASAP
Duration: 6 months

Required Skills and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
3+ years of professional experience with software development and data structures/algorithms.
Experience testing and maintaining software products as part of a team.

Independent working proficiency with one or more of:

Golang/GO (essential)
Python
C++

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER | GOLANG | GO | PYTHON | C++ | DEVOPS | COMMUNICATION | APIS | API | DATA | SCIENCE | CI/CD | CONTAINERISATION

Freelancing in Germany: Guide & Insights

Freelancing in Germany is an attractive prospect for many professionals. The country is
well known for having one of the strongest economies in the world and the IT talent
shortage is making companies even more open to hiring freelancers. If you’re considering
freelancing in Germany (whether you are already living in Germany or have not yet
moved!), this article is for you!

CONTENTS OF THE ARTICLE

I. Working as a freelancer in Germany
II. How do I become a freelancer in Germany?
• Registration as a Freelancer in Germany (Freiberufler anmeldung)
• Visa for self-employed professionals
• Figuring out Health insurance
• Insurance and pension
• Opening a bank account
• German freelance tax: Your tax obligations
- Income tax(Einkommensteuer)
- VAT (Mehrwertsteuer, Umsatzsteuer)
- Trade tax (Gewerbesteuer)
• Tax return (Steuererklärung)
•Invoicing and bookkeeping
III, FAQs related to freelancing in Germany
IV. Common German terms + English translation

You can find the full text of the article here:
https://www.freelancermap.com/blog/freelancing-in-germany/

Ruby Developer

Contract - 6 months - Outside IR35

This role is fully remote working. Immediate start.
The Ideal Candidate will have experience working in Fintechs.

Required Skills:
Ruby
Rails
AWS
MySQL

Freelancermap | Projects

The German freelance platform Freelancermap welcomes freelancers to participate in annual online survey about working on freelance for 2023.

If you work on freelance, you are welcome to participate in survey.
Estimated time to finish the survey — approximately 8 minutes.
Language of the survey — English (you can also choose German).

You can start the survey by proceeding to the link.

After the survey, the results will be published under this post.
We look forward to have your experience reflected in our survey.

Freelancermap | Projects

Happy Monday, freelancers,

The team of Freelancermap.com is sincerely grateful to everyone who participated in Freelancer Survey 2023. We are happy to share the results of the survey with everyone interested, available on our website.

In the survey, which ran from February 14 until May 07, 2023, we collected responses from 3,504 freelancers from countries on all continents.

Traditionally, our freelancer survey includes such sections as:
- finances: average hourly rate, distribution of annual income, etc.,
- freelancers' insights and impressions from working freelance in 2023,
- demographics of freelancers,
- tendencies and forecasts for the freelance market.

Following a great interest of freelancers in AI and the impact of this new technology on the freelance world, this year, the report includes a section about artificial intelligence and its application by freelancers.

The report in PDF can be downloaded (without registration) on the official website of Freelancermap at: https://www.freelancermap.com/market-study

We hope that Freelancer Study 2023 from Freelancermap can help you find valuable insights and answers about working freelance.

Best wishes,

Freelancermap Team

Freelancermap | Projects

Freelance Product Engineer - Automotive - 12 months

Requirements
Knowledge about IP design for building blocks for radar would be helpful
Experience with test time
Functional safety experience
English is Fluent
German is nice to have

Background
product engineering
5 years of radar experience, understanding test programs very well digital/analog - how test data behaves.
Architectural sub divided into different blocks
Pure radar Front End or SoC
Experience with other semiconductor data analysis tools is ok also

Shopify Developer - Fully Remote - 3month contract

Skills:

-Shopify
-App Bridge
-Liquid
-React

Backend Developer (m/w/d)

Your tasks
— Development of various features
— Collaboration with other developers

You should have at least 5 years of experience in the required tech stack. You will work with the internal team, which consists of 12 other developers.

Requirements
— Azure
— C#
— Kubernetes
— NET Core
— English is totally fine


Remote: Fully possible
Length: min. 12 months, The project can be extended.
Engagement: Fulltime, You should be available 5 days/week.

Software Developer (Frontend)

Your tasks
— Development (and possibly design) of the parts of the frontend in consideration and compliance to the Bosch Design Guide
— Design and implementation of parts of the frontend based on requirements and process denoscriptions.
— Development and design of services for communication with backend APIs
— Creation / Design of mockups and screen drafts

Requirements
— Strong JavaScript coding skills
— Strong HTML / CSS skills
— Experience with Angular16
— Strong experience and skills in Website development and design
— Optional skills and experience of the requested profile
— Experience with Python 3.7+
— Experience with Django
— Experience with Jira
— Experience with Git

Project start & project end: 01.01.2024 for app. 6 months
Workload in the project: Min 60% - 80%
Project country & location: DE
Project language: English
Contract type?(contract for service/contract for work): Both possible
Share of remote work in %: Remote 100%, possibly on-site kick-off

Software Engineer C++ / Mac (m/w/d)

Your tasks
— Assist in an ongoing project centered around plugin development for Archicad and Revit.
— Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams to support project objectives and deliverables.
— Apply expertise in C++ to contribute to the creation of robust software solutions.
— Ensure that the developed plugins offer an efficient and user-friendly experience.
— Work closely with frontend developers to ensure flawless integration with the user interface

From
— Bavarian Enterprise GmbH

Happy Monday, freelancers!

The German freelance platform Freelancermap is happy to announce our annual freelancer survey, which will be shared on our platform.

We invite all freelancers to participate in the survey to share insights with the international freelance community and get additional perks with our platform.

The approximate time to complete the survey – 8 minutes

The language of the survey is English.

After completion of the survey, we will share the results with the freelance community.

You can complete the survey by proceeding to the link: FreelancerMap Survey 2024

Let your voice be heard, and happy freelancing!

Happy Friday, freelancers! 😌

The Freelancermap team is happy to announce the results of the annual freelancer survey 2024, participated by freelancers from 84 countries of the EU, including Ukraine. 🇪🇺🇺🇦

Traditionally, the research includes key stats achieved by freelancers during the last annual period, including:

- average income on freelance,
- the most popular gigs on freelance,
- market expectations and income forecast by freelancers,
- hourly fees on freelance for various services,
- insights from successful freelancers and startups

You can download the report in PDF without registration or any strings attached on the official website of Freelancermap here ✅

We hope that the results of freelancer survey in 2024 from Freelancermap will be useful for your work and will help you better navigate your freelance business in EU and worldwide. 🌎

Happy freelancing!👋

Freelancermap Team