Companies hire a Statamic developer when their site runs on Laravel and the CMS should live in the same repository, deploy pipeline and skill set as the rest of the application. We place PHP engineers who know both Laravel and Statamic’s own model, either alone or inside a team.
Jobs a Statamic developer takes on
- Design blueprints, fieldsets and collections that match how editors think about pages.
- Set up Bard and Replicator fields so editors assemble pages from approved sections and cannot break the layout.
- Build Antlers or Blade templates, or a Next.js or Astro frontend fed by the REST and GraphQL APIs.
- Handle multi-site and multilingual setups with sensible fallbacks.
- Write addons, tags and fieldtypes when the core does not cover a need.
- Plan a Statamic, Laravel or PHP upgrade without losing content or addons.
What we vet in a Statamic candidate
The platform looks like Laravel, and the differences are where projects slip.
- Storage choice. A candidate should explain when flat files in git are right and when the Eloquent driver is, including what each does to deploys and editor workflows.
- The Stache. Statamic indexes flat content in a cache layer. We ask what happens to it on deploy and how it is warmed.
- Git automation. If the control panel commits on save, who resolves conflicts when developers push too? We ask for a concrete answer.
- API access. The REST and GraphQL APIs are part of the Pro edition. A candidate planning a decoupled site should know this before the estimate.
- Addon compatibility. Third party addons lag behind major releases, and upgrade planning has to start with an addon audit.
Your first month with a Statamic developer
Week one is access and orientation: repository, staging, the blueprint set and the deploy pipeline. The developer writes up how content is stored, how editors publish and which addons carry business logic. The first change goes into review by the end of the second week, usually a blueprint fix or a section editors have asked for. Weeks three and four take the larger task, whether that is the decoupled frontend, a multi-site rollout or an upgrade branch with a rollback plan.
Hiring models
A Laravel team that is short of hands usually takes one dedicated developer. When design, frontend and PHP work move together, extend the team with two or three people. If you want a delivery unit with its own lead, look at the dedicated team model. The range across roles and seniority is $50 to $150 per hour.
If you want the platform decision too
Choosing between Statamic, Wagtail, Payload or a hosted CMS is a project question, and a developer cannot answer it alone. Our Statamic development services page covers when we recommend it and when we would not. You can also browse headless CMS developers.
