PhpStorm Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used PhpStorm
Manuel K.
Last position:
.NET Developer, SAP Business One Consultant at Own Projects
- DTO class generator: In-house development of a tool for the automatic generation of classes, functions, and methods for use in .NET Core projects based on SAP Business One Service Layer metadata
- E-invoice import add-on: Development of a SAP Business One add-on / coresuite module for the automated import of ZUGFeRD e-invoices as incoming invoices – with configurable mapping to flexibly control the import logic across four mapping types (DIRECT, SQL, FIXED, EXPR). The add-on is available as a licensed product for SAP Business One customers.
Stack: SAP Business One, SAP Business One Service Layer, coresuite Country Package, C#
Markus S.
Last position:
Fullstack Developer at VRM Digital / RYZE
- Development and maintenance of a news portal CMS with interfaces.
- PHP development with HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, MySQL, Laravel, documentation of the interfaces and the system.
- Further development of the SSO system based on Laravel with a large API and connections to AWS, SAP, ERPS.
- Reorganisation and development of the news portals on the basis of a publish platform, services and interfaces to Google, Facebook, Twitter, SSO, SAP technical based on NodeJS with TypeScript and AWS.
- Technologies: PHP, Laravel, MySQL, JavaScript, Vue.js, NodeJS, TypeScript, jQuery, CSS, SCSS, SASS, Unix, Jira, Confluence, Git, Apache, Nginx, AWS.
Mario S.
Last position:
Expert in Web Analytics, Tag Management and Consent Management at Deutsche Bahn AG
- Conducting and evaluating web analyses
- Creating and editing tags and scripts in the area of tag management as well as banners and other client-side web elements in the area of consent management
- Technologies used in development: Tealium, JavaScript, IntelliJ, Git, Android Studio, Selenium, Appium, Adobe Analytics, Power Automate, Power App
Volker A.
Last position:
Senior Frontend Angular Developer at fintus GmbH
- Senior Frontend Angular and Frontend
- Integrating Camunda processes into the frontend
- Development supported by ChatGPT (Codex) and Claude (skills etc.)
Knowledge: Angular, Camunda
Products used: Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, Camunda
Stephan H.
Last position:
Development, Tester at Telecommunications
Set up an operational contract information system. This is mainly used as an order management system - for migrating existing contracts as well as for creating and providing new contract bundles.
Sales agents can use it to order new services, modify existing ones and migrate service types, as well as provide price information to the customer.
This supports the marketing of new services as well as the replacement of old services for existing customers.
In addition, existing data is imported, processed (ETL) and provided via services for further use in the portal front end.
Analysis of the business and technical use cases (workflows, involved processes/systems, communication paths, security requirements)
Further development / creation of the front-end components (React/JavaScript)
Design and implementation of the business logic
Creation of the functional and technical component documentation
Test execution / test automation (Cypress, test coverage)
Team size: 8 people
Technologies: React, JavaScript, Rest (JSon), Yaml, Markdown, MariaDB (SQL), Docker, Swagger, Cypress
Tools: Webstorm, ReactDeveloperTools, VisualStudioCode, Word, DBeaver, Git/GitLab
Work management: GitLab
Platform: Linux
Build management: GitLab
Patrick M.
Last position:
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- A series of interactive live online workshops designed to help students and recent graduates from the African diaspora prepare for the professional world, improve their problem-solving skills, and master tech skills.
Michael L.
Last position:
B2B Shop Development for Curtain Fabrics
- Development of a B2B shop based on Magento 2
- Plugin research and implementation, e.g. custom prices per customer
- Implementation of individual customizations
- Quality assurance
- Release management
- Collaboration with the marketing team
- Technologies: Magento 2, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Docker, Git
Stefan J.
Last position:
PHP / Symfony Fullstack Developer via temporary staffing at N.V.L. Group
- PHP legacy and Symfony 5+ development of N.V.L. Group's own ERP from PHP 7.4 onward including Oracle SQL, RabbitMQ, React and ExtJS
- Use of Docker and GitLab to manage containers and source code
- Implementation of unit, integration and functional tests
- Frontend development with React and ExtJS in Docker containers via GitLab
Ivan V.
Last position:
Senior DevOps Engineer at 58agents
- Provision Kubernetes infrastructure on Azure, GCP, or bare-metal at the hosting provider
- Design and implementation of REST and GraphQL APIs
- Cloud governance (cost, compliance, security)
- Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD as code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Container technologies (Docker, Helm)
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), Argo CD
- Deployment, scaling, and monitoring of microservices
- Distributed event streaming (Kafka)
- Message brokers RabbitMQ, MQTT
- Software development from scratch or further development of existing projects using PHP, Python, Go, C#, and Bash
Eugene K.
Last position:
Lead PHP Web Developer at Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH
- PHP application development for the following news portal CMS:
- lebensmittelzeitung.net
- textilwirtschaft.de
- horizont.net
- iz.de
- fvw.de
- ahgz.de
- horizont.at
- agrarzeitung.de
- food-service.de
- fashionmagazine.it
Martin S.
Last position:
Fullstack Developer at Affiliate / Price Comparison (Technical Relaunch)
- Technical relaunch of the existing affiliate site based on Pimcore and Symfony
- Use of TailwindCSS for performant and flexible frontend design
- Implemented a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions
- Used Redis for caching and performance optimization
- Responsible for DevOps tasks including system configuration and deployment
- Integrated the eBay API for automated data processing
- Managed tickets via YouTrack and team communication through Slack
- Test coverage with Codeception (unit & acceptance tests)
- Continuous development, maintenance, and performance improvement
- Designing new features and optimizing existing processes
Gernot L.
Last position:
Founder and Managing Director at Softwerk/Ruhr GmbH
- Architecting and developing SaaS platform for graphical definition and execution of pandas data processing pipelines
- Developed POlyglott, an open-source Python CLI tool for translation workflow management featuring PO file parsing, quality linting with glossary enforcement, and DeepL API integration for machine translation
- Developed web application for material compliance management (EU REACH) using Django and modern web technologies
- Built automated infrastructure platform using Proxmox, Terraform, and Ansible — VM provisioning, configuration management, internal DNS, and fleet-wide security hardening across multiple subnets
Tamas D.
Last position:
Senior Frontend Engineer at Automation24
- Worked on a custom eCommerce platform to maintain and improve the legacy frontend codebase under challenging access limitations
- Achieved a 38% increase in page speed after two months of optimization and development
- Conducted R&D to identify the best frontend framework for a new eCommerce website, researching and developing with MedusaJS, Salior, Adobe Commerce, and VueStorefront
- In 2023 worked on a new ERP system written in React using Redux for state management, Tailwind for styling, TypeScript, and Material Design, improving development efficiency by almost 20%
Srecko S.
Last position:
Test Consultant at PROSEQUM GmbH
- Taking over operational acceptance tests for internal and external applications in a preproduction environment
- End-to-end tests across multiple systems
- Planning and implementation of acceptances based on expected loads and service levels
- Creation of test plans and automated tests
- Monitoring of systems, log analysis and creation of test reports, monitoring charts and acceptance documentation
- Support during rollouts of security and OS patches in preproduction
- Load and performance tests as well as failover/rollback tests
- Testing SOAP/REST APIs with JMeter, Grafana and Kibana
- Batch tests with Bash and log analysis
- Load and performance tests of own applications
- Test automation with JMeter and PyTest
- Maintenance and creation of Bash scripting tests
- Manual system integration tests
Thomas H.
Last position:
Software Developer at IT-Spoon GmbH
- Full-stack development of new applications as well as error analysis and fixing
- Refactoring to a framework
- Customization of shop software
- Connecting the SAP interface and exporting data to the shop
- Production control with time scheduling
- Connecting invoicing to ZUGFeRD (electronic invoice transmission)
- Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, Symfony, Laravel, JS, jQuery, MSSQL, ZUGFeRD
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Statistics of experts using PhpStorm
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
20 years
Position duration
3.1 years
Positions per freelancer
13
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Retail, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
95%
Master's degree or higher
33%
Doctorate
5%
Certifications per freelancer
1
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 Germany 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 Germany using PhpStorm
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.
PhpStorm 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%)
- Retail (59%)
- Banking and Finance (35%)
- Telecommunication (35%)
- Media and Entertainment (29%)
- Education (26%)
- Manufacturing (26%)
- Government and Administration (26%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
PhpStorm at a glance
PhpStorm is JetBrains’ integrated development environment for PHP applications. It combines code navigation, refactoring, debugging, testing and database tools in one workspace. Teams use it for backend services, content platforms, e-commerce systems and APIs, while the common search variant PHPStorm usually refers to the same product.
Frameworks and languages
PhpStorm supports PHP alongside JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SQL and related web technologies. Its framework support covers Symfony, Laravel, WordPress, Drupal and popular testing libraries. Strong professionals also understand Composer, PSR standards, REST APIs, GraphQL, Git and package management, so the IDE fits the wider application stack.
Typical project work
- Configure PhpStorm projects, interpreters, Composer and quality tools
- Refactor PHP code safely across large application areas
- Debug requests, queues, tests and containerized services
- Connect databases and inspect SQL used by web applications
- Set up inspections, code style rules and team workflows
PhpStorm is useful from a new application’s first structure through long-term maintenance. It helps teams move between source code, tests, database schemas, Docker environments and deployment configuration without losing context.
When companies need specialists
Companies often bring in freelance expertise when a PHP codebase has become difficult to change, a framework upgrade carries risk or local tooling slows delivery. A professional can establish a consistent workspace, find defects through debugging and inspections, and document a workflow that the internal team can maintain. This is also valuable before a migration, audit or major release.
Collaboration in Germany
Teams in Germany may use PhpStorm across distributed, hybrid and on-site projects. Remote work is effective when repositories, environments, tickets and review rules are well documented; on-site collaboration can help during complex handovers or workshops. Depending on the organization, professionals may need to communicate in German, English or both.
What strong professionals bring
The best PhpStorm specialists do more than know the interface. They understand PHP runtime behavior, framework conventions, Composer dependency resolution, Git workflows and automated tests. They can explain why an inspection matters, keep IDE settings reproducible and separate a useful refactoring from a risky rewrite. Their deliverables include a stable setup, cleaner code, reliable tests and practical guidance for the team.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about PhpStorm? Start with the answers below.
PhpStorm is an IDE for creating, testing, debugging and maintaining PHP applications. It brings PHP code intelligence together with tools for JavaScript, databases, Git, Composer, Docker and common frameworks such as Symfony and Laravel.
PhpStorm provides a deeper integrated PHP feature set, including inspections, refactoring, framework navigation and database support out of the box. Visual Studio Code is more lightweight and extensible, so the better choice depends on project complexity, team preferences and the required tooling.
PhpStorm works well with both Laravel and Symfony projects when Composer dependencies and framework conventions are configured correctly. A strong professional should also understand queues, console commands, testing, environment files and the deployment setup around the framework.
PhpStorm expertise is most useful alongside solid PHP, Git and Composer knowledge. Experience with SQL, REST APIs, Docker, CI pipelines, PHPUnit, JavaScript and cloud or server environments helps a specialist solve problems beyond the editor itself.
PhpStorm is a tool, so project needs should be assessed through the PHP system rather than the IDE alone. Ask for evidence of comparable framework work, debugging, testing, refactoring and environment setup, then match the specialist to the codebase’s complexity and risk.
PhpStorm projects can usually be handled remotely when source control, development environments, access rights and communication routines are clear. German companies should also agree on language, working hours, security expectations and any need for occasional on-site workshops before the engagement begins.
PhpStorm quality is visible in more than fast navigation or editor familiarity. Look for professionals who explain trade-offs, use inspections and tests thoughtfully, keep configuration consistent, and can improve a real workflow without introducing unnecessary complexity.
JetBrains PhpStorm is the official product name and spelling. PHPStorm is a common search variant for the same IDE, not a separate product, so project discussions should confirm the intended version, plugins, licensing and supported PHP environment.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used PhpStorm in their recent projects is 89 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 715 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used PhpStorm in their recent projects, 95% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 33% hold at least a Master's degree, and 5% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used PhpStorm in their recent projects have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used PhpStorm in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (24%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used PhpStorm in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Retail (59%), and Banking and Finance (35%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used PhpStorm in their recent projects are Information Technology (97%), Product Development (94%), and Project Management (59%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used PhpStorm
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