PHP Symfony Contractor

📣 PHP / Symfony Contractor — Legacy Platform Upgrade 💰 £400+ per day — Outside IR35 📍 UK — Fully Remote ⏱️ 6-month contract 🚀 ASAP start 💻 PHP 8.2/8.3 · Symfony · Doctrine · Legacy Modernisation I’m working with a well-established UK technology business looking for an experienced PHP / Symfony Contractor to join an urgent 6-month platform upgrade. This isn’t a greenfield build, and they’re not looking for a generalist PHP developer. They specifically need someone who has successfully delivered large-scale upgrades of legacy PHP/Symfony applications before and can come in, understand an established codebase and start contributing quickly. You’ll be working on a substantial legacy platform, helping modernise the PHP and Symfony stack while navigating the dependencies, technical debt and migration challenges that come with upgrading a mature production system. Could be a strong fit if you: • Have strong commercial PHP experience, ideally including PHP 8.2 / 8.3 • Have deep production experience with Symfony • Have personally delivered major Symfony framework upgrades or migrations • Are comfortable working within large, established legacy codebases • Have strong experience with Doctrine • Understand the challenges around dependencies, backwards compatibility, testing and incremental modernisation • Can operate independently and deliver from day one in a contract environment • Ideally have completed multiple previous upgrade or migration contracts Experience with Twig and Mockery would also be beneficial. The key requirement here is specific legacy upgrade experience. ------------------ When applying, it would be useful to include examples of upgrades you’ve personally delivered — for example: “Upgraded a large legacy monolith from Symfony 3.4 → 5.4, including dependency remediation, Doctrine changes and PHP version migration.” Rather than simply outlining general PHP development experience. If legacy PHP/Symfony upgrades are your niche, this could be a very strong contract. Apply with your CV and details of the most relevant platform/framework upgrades you’ve delivered.