Hire PHP developers in India, without opening an entity
Need PHP developers who will stick with your codebase for years, not weeks? Kaamwork’s Tech EOR platform and local HR support let you build a full-time PHP team in India overnight. You own hiring, salaries, and day-to-day management. We handle payroll, compliance, and retention.
How to hire PHP developers
in India
PHP still runs a huge share of the web: WordPress sites, Laravel SaaS products, Magento stores, and plenty of ten-year-old internal apps nobody wants to touch. That last group is the tricky one. Code like that needs someone who stays long enough to learn it, not a contractor who leaves after one sprint.
So companies that hire PHP developers full-time get continuity on the code their business actually depends on. Kaamwork makes that possible in India without a legal entity or a local recruiting team. Your dedicated PHP developer works as your employee, and typically costs around a third of an equivalent US salary.
When you hire PHP developers in India through Kaamwork, you get:
Engineers across Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, and Magento
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 developer to a full team
Full-time employees who work as an extension of your team, not a vendor bench
What does a PHP developer do?
A PHP developer writes and maintains the server-side code behind websites, web apps, and the APIs they depend on. Most work inside a framework like Laravel or Symfony, or on a platform like WordPress or Magento. Here is what a full-time PHP developer on a Kaamwork team typically owns.
Web applications
Builds and maintains app logic in Laravel, Symfony, or CodeIgniter.
REST and GraphQL APIs
Designs the endpoints your front end and mobile apps call.
WordPress and CMS
Writes custom themes, plugins, and headless setups for WordPress and Drupal.
E-commerce
Extends Magento (Adobe Commerce) and WooCommerce stores.
Legacy upgrades
Moves old PHP 5 and 7 code to PHP 8 and a modern framework.
Database work
Designs schemas and queries in MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.
Auth and security
Handles authentication, input validation, and the OWASP basics.
Speed and queues
Adds caching, background jobs, and query fixes as traffic grows.
Why hire PHP developers in India
India has one of the largest PHP talent pools anywhere, with engineers who have built on Laravel, WordPress, and Magento for clients worldwide.
Deepest talent pool
India produces the highest number of STEM graduates each year, and a young, remote-ready workforce that works across every major PHP framework and CMS.
Material savings
Comparable PHP 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 PHP developer through Kaamwork
Five steps from job requirement to an onboarded, full-time PHP developer in India.
Share your PHP requirement
- Framework, CMS, legacy or greenfield, seniority, and how much time zone overlap you need.
Source and shortlist
- Kaamwork’s network of proven recruiters can share relevant PHP developer profiles within 24 hours, matched to the stack 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 developer 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.
PHP developer cost to hire
How much does it cost to hire a PHP 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 stack (WordPress vs. Laravel vs. Magento), 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.
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 PHP 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 PHP developer’s stack
The tools and frameworks a strong PHP developer in India typically works across. Use it as a checklist when you shortlist and interview.
| Category | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Languages | PHP 8.x, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, HTML5, CSS3 |
| Frameworks | Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Yii, Laminas |
| CMS and e-commerce | WordPress, Drupal, Magento (Adobe Commerce), WooCommerce |
| Front-end | Blade, Twig, Livewire, Inertia.js, Vue.js, React, Alpine.js |
| Database | MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis |
| ORMs | Eloquent, Doctrine |
| APIs and web services | RESTful APIs, GraphQL, SOAP, webhooks |
| Testing | PHPUnit, Pest, Codeception, Behat |
| Tooling and code quality | Composer, PHPStan, Psalm, PHP_CodeSniffer, Xdebug |
| Deployment and cloud | AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Nginx, Apache, Laravel Forge, Laravel Vapor |
| Caching and queues | Redis, Memcached, OPcache, RabbitMQ, Laravel Horizon |
| Security | OAuth, JWT, Laravel Sanctum, Laravel Passport, OWASP Top 10 |
| Version control | Git (GitFlow) |
| Project management | Jira, Trello, Slack |
Questions worth asking before you hire
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Full-Time Teams in India
Grow from one PHP hire to a full engineering team on the same EOR setup. Plan your team build.
Build your PHP 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 PHP developers.