PHP Experts in Austria
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Alexander P.
Last position:
Owner & Lecturer at Own company for AI governance and data products, Vienna
- Consulting and interim management at the interface between IT operations and regulation
- Impact analysis and implementation planning for NISG 2026 and the EU AI Act, including risk management and reporting and evidence processes
- Training for governing bodies and employees on regulatory obligations
- Lectures in Data & Information Management and Human-Machine Interaction at University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, since 2023
- Supervision of master’s theses and participation in the examination board
- Presentations for business and educational institutions
- Design and development of data and AI products, platforms and pipelines
- Privacy-first architectures and zero-knowledge encryption, cloud-native on EU infrastructure
- MLOps and AIOps in live operations
- Own applications under own brand: shared codebase, separate delivery for each target device
- AI-assisted software development (vibe coding), complete agentic pipelines, code generation, implementation, automated testing, CI/CD and release cycles
- Publications on the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, CRA and CER as an integrated governance system
- Publications on data sovereignty, cloud economics and industrial image processing
- AI governance / compliance: data quality, Responsible AI, EU AI Act readiness, risk classification, AI ethics
Chrisabel P.
Last position:
AI Systems & Product Strategy Expert at Webmeisterin
I build. I advise. I think in systems. After years leading digital transformation at scale — Accenture, BP, Lidl — I made a deliberate choice: trade platform dependency for structural independence. My focus is at the intersection of AI systems, product strategy, and venture thinking. I work with operators and founders who want to move fast without losing control — of their data, their stack, their direction.
Manuel M.
Last position:
ERP Process Modeling at Richter Pharma AG
Migration preparation for the upcoming ERP system change: recording all ERP-related business processes, analyzing pain points, and consolidating them into process views. Ensuring that every process can be transferred to the target system or that an alternative exists. Result: a solid working basis for system integrators and a company ready for migration.
BPMN · Camunda
Thomas G.
Last position:
Senior UX Designer, Consultant & Team Lead at UXfocus e.U.
Strategic & UX work at UXfocus
- UX consultant and teamlead with strong experience in UX management, UX strategy, UX methods and processes
- Moderation of customer and user workshops and team mentoring
- Led qualitative and quantitative user research activities and UX design activities
- Developed user and customer journeys, user flows, wireframes up to the development of click prototypes for clients such as Indeed and Varian – Siemens Healthineers, Tecan and Energie AG
- Worked on digital products like responsive and mobile applications and complex industrial products like console applications and dashboards
- Developed design systems and design libraries using Figma, Design Tokens, Storybook, etc.
- Facilitated workshops and usability evaluations (user testing and expert evaluation) providing deep insights for advancing product development
- Experience with UX tools (Figma, Sketch, Invision), Design Systems, Requirements Engineering (Confluence, Jira, IBM Doors, etc)
Damir D.
Last position:
Senior IT Consultant at Dudakovic e.U.
- Consulting in national and international projects in various roles and sectors (banking and finance, public sector, telecommunications, data management, software development)
- Engaging in project management, requirements management, business analysis, process management, IT consulting and coaching
- Delivering sustainable value quickly and efficiently due to high complexity and diversity of projects and expertise
- Emphasizing collegiality and integrity and fostering a positive team atmosphere
Matthias K.
Last position:
Business Architect at E5GTEC
- Analysis of extended requirements related to existing controllers in an industrial plant
- Creating concepts for storing and visualizing sensor data
- Communication with PLCs
- Microservice architecture
- Unified architecture
- AI-based evaluations of sensor data
- Technologies used: .NET 8, Minimal API, Postgres, MQTT, RabbitMQ
Michael G.
Last position:
Scrummaster at Xenovo
Planning and monitoring sprints and holding the scheduled meetings
Analyzing and resolving issues in the development process
Error analysis, bug management and correction in individual process steps
Stakeholder management
Documentation and improvement of the development process
Tools: JIRA, Confluence
Christian W.
Last position:
EHF.at
- Further development and ongoing maintenance of the existing WordPress site for EHF.at to revamp the responsive design and improve usability on mobile devices.
- Integration of WooCommerce into the existing site for full e-commerce functionality and digitization of the team sports apparel sales process.
- Implementation and configuration of an automated newsletter system to strengthen customer loyalty through regular updates and personalized offers.
- Ongoing maintenance including regular updates, performance optimizations, and security checks to keep the site up-to-date and functional.
- Project-related technical activities: PHP, CSS, and JavaScript.
Markus K.
Last position:
Document Development at Insurance Company
- Replacement of original Dopix documents and modules into the Quadient document environment
- Extension of document logic
Benjamin A.
Last position:
Research Engineer at AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology
- Developed Taranis AI, an advanced open-source intelligence (OSINT) tool, leveraging artificial intelligence to revolutionize information gathering and situational analysis.
- Created cybersecurity trainings and a cyber range to provide hands-on learning experiences for SOC teams and IT management.
- Designed and implemented a hybrid cloud infrastructure using OpenStack, Terraform, and Ansible, improving the scalability and performance of the infrastructure and led the migration from an on-site only infrastructure to the hybrid cloud environment.
- Some of my current work can be found on GitHub.
Stefan K.
Last position:
Fullstack Developer (Freelancer) at Sciuto Software GbR
- Implementing a real-time procedural 3D/AR eyelash configurator using Three.js and MediaPipe
- Building a full-stack web application with React.js and Python
- Consulting on app and web development
Jürgen E.
Last position:
Chief Executive Officer at Riddle&Code GmbH
- Pivoted the company into data-driven and AI-powered energy optimization solutions for microgrids, energy communities, and grid operators.
Tobias F.
Last position:
CTO & Founder at bitminds
Selected projects:
Kiosk platform – hospitality
- Led a 3-person team while hands-on architecting an edge computing infrastructure for over 15 self-service kiosks in Alpine hotels with unstable connectivity
- Designed a Nomad-based cluster with a WireGuard mesh network for fully automated OTA updates, even during local network outages and offline operation
- Integrated physical peripherals (hotel key card readers, thermal printers) into a containerized deployment pipeline
- Reduced on-site maintenance visits by ~40% through a resilient offline-first architecture and Prometheus-based hardware monitoring
- Tech: Nomad, Consul, WireGuard, NestJS, NextJS, Prometheus, Custom Hardware Provisioning
Multi-tenant SaaS platform – insurance claims processing
- Built and operated the Kubernetes infrastructure for a market-leading claims processing platform (acquired by an S&P 500 company) – with strict compliance and availability requirements
- Designed a multi-tenant EKS cluster with tenant isolation, enabling cost-effective single-instance hosting for multiple customers
- Implemented dynamic spot instance node pools, reducing infrastructure costs by ~20%
- Set up fully automated deployment pipelines (Terraform + GitHub Actions) for uninterrupted releases during business hours
- Tech: EKS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki, PHP, GraphQL
Legacy ERP integration – construction photo documentation
- Led a 2-person team in designing and implementing a real-time sync bridge between a legacy Microsoft Access ERP (without an API) and a modern mobile photo app for quality control on construction sites
- Developed a PostgreSQL pipeline with real-time listeners that extract data from 1990s Access databases – without disrupting existing workflows
- Built a resilient upload architecture with a circuit breaker pattern for unstable site connections (S3, NFS, Synology NAS)
- Saved each project manager 2–4 hours per week through automated photo sync instead of manual USB/SD card transfers
- Tech: NestJS, PostgreSQL, React Native (Expo), S3, Synology API, offline-first architecture
Maximilian G.
Last position:
Solo Developer / Founder at InvAPI
- Privacy-first, stateless e-invoice API providing AI-powered extraction, bidirectional format conversion (UBL/CII/ZUGFeRD), batch processing, and validation for German/Austrian e-invoice compliance
- Technologies: Nuxt 4, Vue 3, Nitro, TypeScript, Cloudflare (D1, R2), Stripe, OAuth, AI/LLM integration
Markus F.
Last position:
Managing Director & Senior Consultant at IT-Trail GmbH
- Custom development
- Web hosting
- Support
- DevOps
- Technologies: C#, Node.js, Web, Windows, Linux, SQL, MS365, Azure, AWS
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Statistics of experts using PHP
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
3 years
Positions per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
72%
Master's degree or higher
48%
Doctorate
3%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Austria are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates of experts in Austria using PHP
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
PHP experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (94%)
- Banking and Finance (44%)
- Professional Services (38%)
- Retail (34%)
- Education (31%)
- Telecommunication (31%)
- Manufacturing (28%)
- Transportation (25%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What PHP Does
PHP is a server-side scripting language for building dynamic websites, web applications and backend services. It processes requests, connects to databases and returns HTML, JSON or other responses. PHP runs behind content platforms, online shops, customer portals and business software used across Austrian industries.
Frameworks And Tools
Modern PHP work often centres on Laravel or Symfony, with Composer managing packages and PHPUnit supporting automated tests. Strong specialists also work with WordPress, Drupal, Magento or WooCommerce, depending on the product. They connect PHP systems with MySQL or PostgreSQL, Redis, queues, REST APIs and cloud hosting environments.
Common Deliverables
- Custom web applications with authentication, payments and role-based access
- Laravel or Symfony APIs for web and mobile products
- WordPress themes, plugins and content workflows
- E-commerce features, checkout processes and catalogue integrations
- Legacy PHP upgrades, refactoring and performance improvements
PHP professionals can also create command-line tools, background workers and integrations with CRM, ERP or marketing systems. Their work may cover discovery, implementation, testing, deployment and technical documentation.
When To Hire Specialists
Companies bring in freelance PHP expertise when an internal team needs delivery capacity, a legacy application requires careful modernisation or a new product must reach users quickly. A specialist can assess an existing codebase, define a safe migration path or take ownership of a focused feature. For teams in Austria, remote collaboration is common, while workshops and stakeholder sessions can be arranged on site when useful.
Skills Beyond PHP
Good PHP work depends on more than language syntax. Look for experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, HTTP, Git, containerised environments and automated deployment. Depending on the assignment, useful adjacent knowledge includes React or Vue, Linux operations, cloud services, security controls and search optimisation.
Signs Of Strong Professionals
- They explain trade-offs between Laravel, Symfony, WordPress and custom PHP clearly
- They separate business rules from framework and presentation code
- They protect input, sessions, authentication and payment flows
- They use tests, code review and monitoring to reduce release risk
- They can improve legacy code without disrupting live services
Strong professionals ask about users, integrations, hosting and release constraints before proposing a solution. They communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, document decisions and leave maintainable code behind.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about PHP, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
PHP is used for websites, content management systems, online shops, customer portals and backend APIs. It is also common in WordPress, Laravel and Symfony projects, including systems that connect to databases, payment providers and business software.
PHP is a practical choice for server-rendered websites, content platforms and established web products. Node.js can suit JavaScript-heavy teams and real-time services, Python is often selected for data-focused work, while Java is common in large enterprise environments; the right option depends on the existing stack, team skills and delivery goals.
A strong PHP specialist should understand SQL, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, Git and automated testing. Laravel or Symfony experience may be important, while Docker, Linux, cloud hosting, API design and application security are valuable for broader assignments.
The required depth depends on the system’s risk and complexity. A content site may need focused WordPress expertise, while a payment platform, legacy migration or high-traffic API calls for proven architecture, testing, security and production support skills.
PHP projects are well suited to remote collaboration because source code, tickets, testing and deployments can be handled online. Teams in Austria should agree on working hours, documentation standards and communication routines, with on-site workshops used when direct stakeholder contact adds value.
The choice depends on the product, team and existing codebase. PHP frameworks such as Laravel and Symfony provide structure, reusable components and established practices, while plain PHP may be suitable for small focused tasks or carefully maintained legacy systems.
Ask how the specialist approaches security, testing, database design, deployment and maintenance. A capable PHP professional can show clear reasoning, readable code and relevant delivery examples, and will explain how risks are controlled rather than relying on framework familiarity alone.
Freelancers working with PHP may encounter modern Laravel or Symfony services, WordPress customisation, e-commerce platforms and older applications that need gradual improvement. They should be ready to understand business rules quickly, document assumptions and collaborate with product, design and operations teams.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used PHP in their recent projects is 106 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 847 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used PHP in their recent projects, 72% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 48% hold at least a Master's degree, and 3% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used PHP in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used PHP in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (22%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used PHP in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Banking and Finance (44%), and Professional Services (38%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used PHP in their recent projects are Information Technology (97%), Product Development (88%), and Project Management (63%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used PHP
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
Vienna Graz 
Vienna Countries:
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
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