Hire Laravel Developers in India
Dedicated Laravel engineers for new builds, APIs and admin systems, and for the Yii2 and Yii 1.1 apps that still run real businesses. Yii 1.1 stops getting official security fixes on 31 December 2026. We keep yours patched and move it forward module by module. Attrition is under 5% against an industry average of 20 to 25%. Start with a 5-day free trial.
No obligation. Interview as many engineers as you like, and run your own technical round, before you commit.
A Yii 1.1 app rarely needs a big-bang rewrite. It stays live and patched while modules move across to Yii2 or Laravel one at a time, and your users keep working.
What Actually Determines Your Laravel Developer Rate
"Laravel developer" covers everyone from a junior adding CRUD screens to a senior who designs your queue setup or plans the exit from Yii 1.1. One published number cannot describe both. So we publish the six things that move the price, and give you a firm quote in one working day.
Seniority
An engineer who adds screens to a working Laravel app and one who designs API security, queues and a Yii migration plan are different hires. We will tell you which one your work actually needs, before you pay for it.
Team size
One Laravel developer and a squad of a senior, two mid-levels and a tester are priced differently. Per-head cost drops as the team grows, because our overhead per engineer drops too, and a squad keeps releases moving through leave.
Contract duration
A three-month engagement and a two-year one carry different rates. Longer commitments price better because recruitment cost is spread over more months. Legacy Yii maintenance tends to run for years: two of our Yii clients have stayed eight years or more.
Payment terms
Advance, milestone and net-30 billing do not cost us the same, so they are not priced the same. Tell us what your finance team needs and we build the quote around it, rather than pretend the terms make no difference.
Where you contract from
Indian clients are quoted in rupees at domestic rates with GST. International clients are quoted in US dollars. Two markets and two rate cards, each set fairly for the market it serves. Nobody in India is handed a dollar rate converted into rupees.
Remote, onsite or hybrid
Most Laravel and Yii engagements run remotely from Coimbatore, often for years. Some do not: PHP engineers of ours work full time inside a client's office in Chennai today. Onsite carries relocation and allowance costs, so it is priced separately, but within India it is genuinely available.
A firm quote in one working day
Tell us the stack, the seniority, how many engineers and roughly how long. You get a written quote with the rate, the minimum term and the notice period inside one working day. No discovery call required first, and no obligation after.
Four Things We Put in Writing Before You Pay
Hiring an engineer thousands of kilometres away is a leap of faith. These four commitments are in every contract we sign, not buried in a proposal deck.
5-day free trial
Work with the engineer for five business days at no cost. Real tickets, real sprint, your tools. If it is not a fit, you owe nothing.
Replacement in 5 business days
Unhappy with the engineer at any point in the engagement? We replace them free of charge within five business days. No argument, no invoice.
100% IP ownership
Every line of code, every commit, every design file is yours from the moment it is written. Assigned in the contract, not promised verbally.
Signed NDA + ISO 27001:2022
Mutual NDA signed before you share anything. Our information security is independently certified, so your security review already has an answer.
Four Situations Our Laravel and Yii Engineers Are Hired For
If one of these sounds like your quarter, you are in the right place.
Your product still runs on Yii 1.1
The Yii team's extended security and compatibility fixes for Yii 1.1 stop on 31 December 2026. If the business runs on it, you need engineers who keep it patched now and plan the move to Yii2 or Laravel, module by module.
Your Yii2 platform has nobody left who knows it
The original developers moved on, Yii2 CVs are scarce, and every Laravel freelancer you speak to suggests a rewrite. We maintain Yii2 as it is, ship weekly fixes and features, and recommend moving only when there is a business reason.
You are building something new on Laravel
A SaaS product, a customer portal, an API for your mobile apps or an internal admin system. You need a senior who sets the structure, queues and API security right in week one, then mid-levels who ship features against it.
Your Laravel team is short of hands
You have a roadmap and a headcount gap, or a won project that needs more PHP capacity than your team has. Our engineers join your standups, tracker and repo, deliver to your schedule, and step back once you have hired.
What Our Laravel and Yii Engineers Actually Work With
Not "expert in all PHP frameworks". Here is the specific toolset, split by the job it does, so your engineering manager can judge it. Every item is something a senior engineer of ours will defend in your technical interview.
Laravel core
APIs, queues & admin
Yii & legacy PHP
Data, CMS & delivery
Three honest caveats, so you hire the right person
On "Laravel and Yii" on a CV
Many PHP CVs list both. Eloquent and Yii's ActiveRecord, Artisan and Gii, Laravel's service container and Yii's components all work differently, and Yii 1.1 differs again. We screen for the framework your code runs on, and every profile says which.
On "upgrading" to Laravel
Moving from Yii to Laravel is a rebuild, not an upgrade, and so is Yii 1.1 to Yii2. If your Yii2 app works, keeping it and building new parts in Laravel alongside can be the cheaper route. That is what we did for Stratview.
On the front end
From this page we staff Blade, Livewire and Bootstrap front ends. For a Laravel API behind a single-page app, the front end comes from our React JS team. We do not claim Vue.js or Inertia here.
We Also Staff the Rest of Your PHP Estate
Few companies run only one framework. A Laravel app usually sits next to a WordPress marketing site, a learning platform or an older core PHP system, and the same account covers all of it.
Our WordPress and Moodle work runs in production today beside the Laravel back end of International Training in Florida, the parent of SDI and TDI. Its case study is below.
Three Seniority Bands, and What Each One Can Do
Rather than parade three CVs that go stale, here are the three bands we staff Laravel and Yii roles from. Tell us the band and you get three real CVs matched to it within 48 hours, assessment reports attached.
Sets the app structure, database design and review standards. Designs API authentication with Sanctum or Passport, decides what runs on queues and how Horizon watches them, and plans a Yii 1.1 or Yii2 exit module by module. The band for a new build, a rescue or a migration.
Takes a ticket from spec to release: Eloquent models and relationships, Form Request validation, API endpoints, queued jobs, and Filament or Livewire admin screens. Works in Laravel or an existing Yii2 codebase from your backlog with little hand-holding. This is the band most staff augmentation engagements sit in.
Works well-specified tickets on an existing Laravel or Yii app: Blade views, CRUD screens, report exports, bug fixes and small database changes. Supervised by one of our seniors on code quality. Good value where you have a steady maintenance backlog and someone to review the work.
Sent within 2 working hours during IST business hours. We also keep a live bench list of available engineers across every stack.
Not on Our Bench? You Still Get a Profile.
Most vendors go quiet when the exact skill you need is not sitting idle in their office. We do not, because our own bench is not the only bench we can reach.
In-house first, always
We start with our own 80+ engineers in Coimbatore. If the match is on our payroll, that is who you get, because it is the fastest and most accountable option for both of us.
30+ partner companies across India
Where we do not have the match in-house, we have standing partnerships with more than 30 established Indian IT services companies and access to their benches. Far wider reach than any single company's bench, without going near an anonymous freelance marketplace.
One point of contact, same guarantees
You deal only with us. We source, screen and assess the engineer, we hold the contract, we send one invoice, and we carry the accountability. The 5-day trial, the 5-business-day replacement, the IP assignment and the NDA all apply exactly the same way.
This is not theoretical. It is how we sourced and screened 250+ profiles and got 30+ engineers onboarded for Biz2Credit in New York inside three months. That was a JavaScript engagement, not PHP; it is here because it shows the reach, which works the same way for Laravel and Yii roles. Read the Biz2Credit case study.
Laravel and Yii Engagements We Have Delivered
A diving certification group whose Laravel estate is maintained by eight of our back-end developers, a research publisher running Yii2 and Laravel side by side, and an EdTech SaaS on Yii 1.1 whose only developers, for almost ten years, have been ours. Ask us to walk you through any of them on a call.
Five training agencies, from technical diving to first aid, run on one Laravel back end, with WordPress and Moodle beside it. The client came to us with performance problems and missing features, and kept a dedicated team on the estate.
- Eight back-end developers across Laravel, WordPress and Moodle
- Plus a project manager, designer, app developer and two QA
- Paper facility registration replaced by an automated workflow
- Pre-purchased credits added to checkout, and three-year facility reports
Read full case study
Stratview's research store ran on an ageing Yii2 platform. Rather than rewrite what worked, we kept and extended it, and built the sister site Composights from scratch in Laravel. The redesigned site is now live.
- Yii2 kept and extended for Stratview, not rewritten
- Composights designed and built new in Laravel
- Custom admin panels for both: content, access and report delivery
- Weekly releases, with bugs triaged High, Medium and Low
Read full case study
A school ERP sold as a service, with a web app and native mobile apps for administrators, teachers, parents, students, librarians and bus drivers. It runs on Yii 1.1 and core PHP, and has had one development partner for almost ten years: us. Every module, from admissions to bus tracking, is ours to maintain.
- Used by 100+ schools and more than 150,000 students
- Fees, payroll, attendance, transport, library and more
- Bugs triaged High, Medium and Low against an agreed SLA
- Yii 1.1 platform kept stable in production for almost ten years
Read full case study
How We Vet, and How You Should Test Us
Every vendor claims their developers are "A+". Here is our actual process, and the questions we think you should use to check whether it worked.
Our screening process
- CV and stack screen Role-specific filter against the skill matrix above: Laravel, Yii2 or Yii 1.1, which versions they have shipped on, queues and APIs in production, and how they handle a legacy codebase. Not a "PHP framework" keyword match, which catches everyone and proves nothing.
- Scored technical assessment Run on Xobin. Only candidates who pass go any further, and you get the report alongside the CV so you see the score before you interview.
- Live coding round A real Laravel problem, such as an API endpoint with Form Request validation and an Eloquent relationship, or a job that must run on a queue, solved while we watch. No take-home assignments, because those can be outsourced.
- Technical interview with a senior engineer Eloquent and N+1 queries, transactions, queue failures and retries, API authentication, and how they would approach a Yii codebase nobody has documented.
- Communication check and reference verification They will be on calls with your team, so we check that directly. Prior employer verification before any offer.
We hire for retention, not just for skill. That is why our attrition sits under 5% while the Indian IT industry average is 20 to 25%.
What you should ask us to prove
- Interview the actual engineer, not a sales lead. Ask us to put the engineer on the call unaccompanied. If a vendor resists this, walk away.
- Give them your composer.json and ask what they see. A strong engineer names the framework and version in one line and tells you what that means for the work. A weak one asks you.
- Ask how they would find an N+1 query on a slow page. A strong engineer talks about eager loading with
with()and checking the query log. A weak one suggests a bigger server. - Ask how they would move one Yii module to Laravel. A strong engineer describes both apps running side by side on the same database, with one module routed across at a time. A weak one says "rewrite it".
- Ask who owns the code. Get IP assignment in the contract, in writing, before day one. We assign it by default.
- Ask what happens if it is not working. Get the replacement window and notice period in the contract. Ours are 5 business days and 30 days.
- Ask for the attrition figure. Very few vendors will give you a number. It is the best single predictor of whether your engineer is still there in month nine.
Pick the Model That Fits, Not the One That Suits Us
Three ways to work with us. The differences that actually matter are hours, minimum term and who manages the engineer day to day.
| Model | Hours | Best for | Minimum term | Notice to exit | Who manages day to day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dedicated full-time Best value per hour |
8 hrs/day 5 days/week, approx. 160 hrs/month |
Ongoing product work, roadmap delivery, filling a headcount gap | 3 months | 30 days | Your lead, in your sprints |
| Dedicated part-time | 4 hrs/day 5 days/week, a fixed daily window agreed with you |
Maintenance, a second pair of hands, specialist input alongside your team | 3 months | 30 days | Your lead, in your sprints |
| Hourly / time & material Most flexible |
As needed billed on actual hours worked |
Short scoped work, spikes, audits, unpredictable volume | None | 2 weeks | Our project manager, or yours — your call |
Three things worth spelling out
- Starting is fast, whichever model you pick. Your engineer is onboarded and working two working days after you sign off. None of these models has a waiting period at the start.
- "Notice to exit" applies only at the end. It is how much warning you give us when you want to close the engagement, so we can plan the handover properly and redeploy the engineer. It has no bearing on how quickly you can start.
- Part-time means four hours every working day in a window we agree with you upfront, not eighty hours to be spent whenever. That way your engineer is predictably there for your standup and your working sessions, rather than disappearing for a fortnight and then working double.
All three models include the 5-day free trial, the 5-business-day replacement guarantee, 100% IP assignment and a signed mutual NDA. Daily standups and weekly written reports are standard. We work in your tracker — Jira, Linear, ClickUp, Asana, Zoho Projects or ours. Onsite deployment within India is available and priced separately.
Your Engineer Starts in 2 Working Days
Not "as soon as possible". Here is the actual timeline, and we will tell you upfront if your requirement will not fit it.
We understand the role
A short call or a written brief. Platforms, seniority, timezone overlap, duration, remote or onsite. Sukumar replies within 2 working hours.
Firm written quote
Rate, minimum term and notice period in writing. No discovery call needed first, no obligation after.
Three matched profiles
Full CVs with real project history, the Xobin assessment report, availability dates. Then you interview as many as you like.
Onboarded and committing
NDA and contract signed, access provisioned, engineer in your standup. The 5-day free trial clock starts here.
Six Things Most Offshore Vendors Cannot Say
Every one of these is a fact you can check, not a claim you have to take on trust.
Attrition under 5%
The Indian IT industry averages 20 to 25%. Ours is under 5%. On a legacy Yii app, the engineer who knows why that odd workaround exists is the documentation, and takes months to replace. Ask any vendor for theirs.
ISO 27001:2022 certified
Independently audited information security management, not a self-declared policy PDF. If your security team sends a questionnaire, we have already answered most of it. See the certificate.
11 years, 400+ clients, one office
Same founder, same leadership, same Coimbatore delivery centre since 2015. Oro Corp has been with us since 2015 and Tart Labs for years. We are not a brokerage reselling freelancers.
In-house first, 30+ partner benches behind it
80+ engineers on our own payroll in Coimbatore, and that is always where we look first. Where the match is not in-house, partnerships with 30+ Indian IT companies give us the reach — with us still holding the contract and the accountability. How that works.
We keep legacy PHP platforms running for years
Stratview has had our engineers on its Yii2 platform for eight years, and Futuristic School has never used another developer in almost ten. If your product depends on a framework everyone else wants to rewrite, we will keep it stable first.
You talk to engineers, not account managers
Your engineer joins your standup, your tracker and your repo, and reports to your lead. No layer of project management wedged between you and the person writing the code.
Stay on Yii, Upgrade to Yii2, or Move to Laravel: An Honest Comparison
We work in all three, and the honest answer is not always a rewrite. The choice decides who you can hire for the next five years, how often you upgrade, and how much of the work is rebuilding rather than improving.
| Consideration | Stay on Yii 1.1 | Upgrade to Yii2 | Move to Laravel |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it involves | Keep the app as it is, patch it, and keep it compatible with newer PHP versions for as long as that stays possible. | A rebuild onto Yii2. The Yii team itself says upgrading a whole 1.1 app usually means a total rewrite, though both can run in one app while modules move. | A rebuild onto Laravel, module by module, with the old app still serving whatever has not moved yet. |
| Official security fixes | End on 31 December 2026. After that, any new vulnerability is yours to find and patch. | Maintained by the Yii team with ongoing 2.0.x releases. Check its published release cycle against your planning horizon. | A major version every year, each with 18 months of bug fixes and two years of security fixes. Plan a yearly upgrade. |
| Hiring pool | Small and shrinking. Few developers starting out today ever learn it. | Much smaller than Laravel's, but familiar ground for anyone who knows Yii 1.1. | The largest PHP framework pool there is, with a very wide spread in quality. |
| Best suited to | An app with a retirement date, or one being replaced by a product you are already building. | A large app whose team thinks in Yii, where keeping its conventions saves real time. | Most rebuilds and every new product, when you want the widest hiring pool and admin tooling such as Filament. |
| Our honest recommendation | If you run Yii2 and it works, stay on it and keep it current. That is what we did for Stratview, and we built its sister site Composights in Laravel alongside rather than rewrite the old one. If you are on Yii 1.1, do not let 31 December 2026 make the decision for you. Either route is a rebuild, so choose the framework you can staff for the next five years, which for most companies is Laravel. Staying on Yii 1.1 only makes sense with a retirement date. For CodeIgniter, core PHP and the wider PHP picture, see our PHP developers page. | ||
Companies That Have Trusted Our Engineers
A selection of clients where we have delivered Laravel, Yii, PHP or dedicated-team engagements. Ask us about any of them on a call.
Training agencies, Florida — Laravel, WordPress and Moodle team
Market research — Yii2 and Laravel, eight years
EdTech SaaS, India — Yii 1.1 platform, almost ten years
Franchise media, USA — Laravel and Node.js platform, ongoing
Fintech, New York — engineers sourced at volume
Global IT services — onsite placements, 2017 to 2026
Healthcare AI, Japan — core engineering team, 2 years
Legal tech, USA — web application
SaaS, UK and Coimbatore — front-end developers onsite
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Frequently Asked Questions About Hiring Laravel Developers
Including the ones most vendors dodge.
How much does it cost to hire a Laravel developer from India, and why don't you publish your rates?
Because "Laravel developer" covers too wide a range for one number to mean anything: a junior adding admin screens and a senior planning a Yii 1.1 exit are different hires. Six things set the real rate: seniority, how many engineers you take, contract duration, payment terms, remote or onsite, and whether you contract from India or overseas. Indian clients are quoted in rupees at domestic rates; international clients in US dollars.
What we commit to is speed. Tell us the stack, the seniority, the headcount and roughly how long, and you get a firm written quote with the rate, minimum term and notice period within one working day. No discovery call first, and no obligation after.
Our app runs on Yii 1.1. What happens after 31 December 2026?
The app keeps running, but the safety net goes. The Yii team has extended security and compatibility fixes for Yii 1.1 to 31 December 2026, and only those fixes: no new features. After that date, any new vulnerability in the framework, or any break caused by a newer PHP version, is yours to find and patch.
To check what you have, open composer.json. yiisoft/yii means Yii 1.1 and yiisoft/yii2 means Yii2. Older 1.1 apps may have no Composer at all, just a framework folder containing YiiBase.php. If it is 1.1, you need two things now: someone who keeps it patched, and a plan for where it goes next. We maintain a Yii 1.1 platform in production today, and can do both.
Should we migrate from Yii to Laravel, and how long does it take?
Not automatically. If your Yii2 app works, keeping it and building new parts in Laravel alongside is often cheaper: that is what we did for Stratview. If you are on Yii 1.1, you need a plan either way, and both Yii2 and Laravel mean a rebuild. Most companies choose Laravel, for the hiring pool.
We do it in four phases, with the app in use the whole time. We stabilise it and write down the journeys users rely on. We run old and new side by side on the same database, behind the same domain. We move it module by module. Then we retire the old code. It takes months rather than weeks. We give you an estimate after a short paid review of the codebase, not before, because any earlier number is a guess.
Which Laravel versions and tools do your developers work with?
Current Laravel releases on PHP 8, with Eloquent, Blade, Form Requests and policies; REST APIs secured with Sanctum or Passport; queued jobs on Redis, watched by Horizon, and the task scheduler; and Filament and Livewire for admin panels. MySQL throughout. We also maintain Yii2 and Yii 1.1 and core PHP. Apps on older Laravel versions are upgraded one major version at a time. For a Vue.js or Inertia front end, talk to us first; we do not claim it from this page.
How fast can a developer start, and can we interview them first?
Three matched profiles within 48 hours, each with a Xobin assessment report attached and a plain statement of whether the engineer works in Laravel, Yii2, Yii 1.1 or a mix. Interview as many as you like, run your own technical rounds, and talk to the engineer with no salesperson on the call. Once you sign off, the engineer is in your standup within two working days. If we cannot meet that timeline for your requirement, we tell you before you start interviewing.
What protects us if it doesn't work out, and who owns the code?
Three things, all in the contract. A five-day free trial: if it is not a fit, you owe nothing. A free replacement within five business days, at any point in the engagement, with no reason needed. And 100% IP assignment with a mutual NDA, covering code, designs and documentation, signed before work starts.
We also recommend that your Git repository, your servers, your database backups and your domain are registered to your company, with us added as members. On legacy PHP apps those are often still sitting in a former vendor's account. If a vendor holds them, changing vendor turns into a migration project.
Can your Laravel developers work onsite, or on our timezone?
Both. Within India, PHP engineers of ours work full time inside a client's office in Chennai today, and onsite is quoted separately. For remote work, UK clients get four to five hours of natural overlap, and for US clients our engineers shift their hours to give at least four. The window is agreed in writing upfront.
Do you also handle WordPress, WooCommerce or Moodle alongside a Laravel app?
Yes. For International Training, the same team of back-end developers works across the Laravel application, the WordPress sites and the Moodle learning platform, so features that touch all three are built once and tested together. If WordPress or WooCommerce is the main job rather than a neighbour of your Laravel app, our WordPress developers page covers it in depth.
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