Dedicated hiring

Hire PHP Developers

PHP engineers comfortable in modern frameworks and in the older codebases most businesses actually run — including the ones nobody has documented.

A great deal of working business software is PHP that has been running for years. Our engineers are as capable of stabilising and upgrading a legacy CodeIgniter application as they are of building new work in Laravel.

That combination is unusual and valuable: modern practice applied to real, imperfect systems that cannot simply be replaced.

Capability

What our php developers know

PHP 7.4 through 8.4 Laravel and Symfony CodeIgniter and legacy frameworks WordPress and WooCommerce development MySQL and PostgreSQL optimisation Legacy modernisation and version upgrades API design and integration Automated testing Security hardening

Rates

What it costs per month

All-inclusive: salary, benefits, equipment, workspace, HR and management. No recruitment fee, no notice-period exposure, no hidden overhead.

Rates are indicative and depend on stack scarcity, contract length and timezone requirements. Minimum engagement is three months, with 30 days' notice thereafter.

Our commitments

What is in the contract

You interview everyone

No profile is substituted after signing. If the shortlist is not right, we replace it without charge.

Exclusive to your account

Engineers work on one client at a time. No shared allocation across three projects.

Full IP assignment

Contractual, plus an individual undertaking signed by each engineer. Repositories stay in your organisation.

Free replacement

If someone is not working out, we replace them at our cost with a handover overlap.

Or have us build it for you

If you would rather hand the whole thing over than manage a team, see how we deliver Laravel projects end to end.

Laravel development

Questions

Hiring php developers — your questions

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Yes — legacy stabilisation is one of the most common requests. They start by reading, documenting and adding characterisation tests before changing behaviour.

Yes — custom theme and plugin developers, not page-builder configurators, including WooCommerce and headless WordPress work.

Modern PHP with proper caching, queues and database design handles very substantial load. Where it genuinely does not, we identify the specific bottleneck rather than recommending a wholesale rewrite.

Need php developers this month?

Send us the role definition — skills, seniority, timezone overlap — and you will have vetted profiles within five to seven working days.