Hire Drupal developers in India, without opening an entity
Running a Drupal site that needs constant care? Kaamwork’s Tech EOR platform and local HR support let you build a full-time Drupal team in India overnight. You own hiring, salaries, and day-to-day management. We handle payroll, compliance, and retention.
How to hire Drupal developers
in India
Drupal powers big, content-heavy sites: universities, publishers, governments, enterprise marketing. Those sites need steady upkeep: security updates, module upgrades, and moves between major versions. Drupal 7 reached end of life in January 2025, and plenty of sites still haven’t moved.
So organizations that hire Drupal developers full-time keep someone on staff who knows the site and keeps it secure and current. Kaamwork makes that possible in India without a legal entity or a local recruiting team. Your dedicated Drupal developer works as your employee, and typically costs around a third of an equivalent US salary.
When you hire Drupal developers in India through Kaamwork, you get:
Engineers across Drupal 10 and 11, Symfony, and headless Drupal
Salary savings of up to 65% compared with an equivalent hire in the US
Time zone overlap arranged around your working hours, not against them
Scale from one dedicated Drupal developer to a full team
Full-time employees who work as an extension of your team, not a vendor bench
What does a Drupal developer do?
A Drupal developer builds and maintains Drupal sites: custom modules, themes, content models, and upgrades between major versions. Here is what a full-time Drupal developer on a Kaamwork team typically owns.
Custom modules
Builds features as Drupal modules in PHP.
Theming
Builds themes in Twig that match your designs.
Content modelling
Sets up content types, fields, and Views editors can use.
Drupal 7 migrations
Moves old Drupal 7 sites to Drupal 10 or 11.
Upgrades and security
Applies core and module updates and security releases.
Headless Drupal
Serves content to React or Next.js front ends via JSON:API.
Performance
Speeds up pages with caching and query fixes.
Integrations
Connects Drupal to CRMs, search, and SSO.
Why hire Drupal developers in India
India has a large Drupal community, with engineers building and maintaining Drupal sites for organizations worldwide.
Deepest talent pool
India produces the highest number of STEM graduates each year, and a young, remote-ready workforce that builds and maintains Drupal sites for global organizations.
Material savings
Comparable Drupal talent typically costs about a third of an equivalent US salary. And you skip the overhead of your own legal entity, which runs about 35% on top of total salary cost.
Risk, handled
Time zone overlap, local tax and labor-law compliance, and retention are the usual friction points. Kaamwork’s EOR and local HR model takes them off your plate.
How to hire a Drupal developer through Kaamwork
Five steps from job requirement to an onboarded, full-time Drupal developer in India.
Share your Drupal requirement
- Drupal version, migration needs, custom modules, front-end approach, seniority, and time zone overlap.
Source and shortlist
- Kaamwork’s network of proven recruiters can share relevant Drupal developer profiles within 24 hours, matched to the skills and seniority you asked for.
Interview and decide
- You run the interviews and make the offer. The hiring call is always yours.
Onboard in days
- Kaamwork’s Tech EOR platform onboards your new hire with your negotiated salary and title. No entity, no months of setup.
Payroll, benefits, retention
- Cross-border payroll, benefits, and local HR support run in the background, so your new hire feels like part of your team, not a vendor’s.
You keep 100% of the hiring decision. Kaamwork carries the entity, the compliance, and the local HR relationship.
Drupal developer cost to hire
How much does it cost to hire a Drupal developer in India? With Kaamwork, you pay the developer’s salary plus a flat monthly EOR fee. No entity, no setup bill.
Here is how that compares with opening your own Indian entity. Salary depends on seniority and skill set (site building vs. module development vs. migrations), so talk to us for a benchmark on your specific role.
Add-ons such as laptops, medical insurance, benefits, offsites, and detailed background checks are charged at actual cost, with no markup, on top of salary and the monthly fee.
Kaamwork next to the alternatives
Read the detail on how we compare with a legal owned entity, vanilla EORs, and alternate hiring models.
Why hire Drupal developers through Kaamwork
When you hire Drupal developers through Kaamwork, they join your team as full-time employees, not contractors on loan from a vendor. You keep full control over who you hire and how they work. We handle payroll, compliance, benefits, and the local HR support that keeps people around. And since there is no entity to set up, most companies hire Drupal developers in India within days, not months.
What our clients say
Key insights at a glance
100%
Control over hiring decisions. Kaamwork sources and shortlists, but never picks your developer for you.
65%
Typical salary savings on a Drupal developer employed in India rather than the United States.
5%
Attrition across Kaamwork teams stays under five per cent, supported by local HR on the ground.
$599
Flat fee per employee per month. EOR service, payroll, compliance, your branding, and 24/7 support included.
What to look for in a Drupal developer’s stack
The tools and frameworks a strong Drupal developer in India typically works across. Use it as a checklist when you shortlist and interview.
| Category | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Languages | PHP 8.x, Twig, JavaScript, SQL |
| Drupal core | Drupal 10 and 11, Entity API, Views, Layout Builder, Paragraphs |
| Framework | Symfony components, Composer |
| Tooling | Drush, Drupal Console, configuration management |
| Headless | JSON:API, GraphQL, Next.js |
| Database | MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL |
| Search | Search API, Solr, Elasticsearch |
| Testing | PHPUnit, Behat |
| Hosting | Acquia, Pantheon, Platform.sh, AWS |
| Version control | Git (GitFlow) |
| Project management | Jira, Trello, Slack |
Questions worth asking before you hire
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Hire Frontend Developers in India
Front-end talent for headless Drupal builds. See the frontend hiring guide.
Build your Drupal team in India,
overnight
Talk to us. No entity required, no gated pricing.
Tell us the stack, the seniority, and the overlap you need, and we will come back with salary benchmarks for your requirement and a first shortlist of Drupal developers.