Thank you for the breakdown, I appreciate your time on this! How do you find Drupal to work with? There was a time I was tempted to go into Drupal, and then Laravel or Symfony; I think they have generally decent salaries associated because of their relatively niche nature.

A mix of support and project work. At the moment, I’m building a custom Shopify theme for a client using Liquid, but I’m also helping to manage the scoping and planning for an upcoming WordPress rebuild for one of our other clients, which have some quite niche requirements that will necessitate some custom plugin development on top of custom theme development. That will land soon, and my time will be split between Shopify/WordPress development.

I’m only specifying “custom” here to differentiate the coding “from scratch” style work I’m doing from WYSIWYG/Site builder style work that I know comes with the WP/Shopify territory.

I’ll take another look at in-house roles. Thank you!

When you say client side, what do you mean? I’ve worked in-house and for agencies, and the in-house pay was fine but not markedly more or less than agencies for similar roles (although it was less stressful).

I’m not, I’m in the UK – I just gave the figure in $ cos I assumed it’d make more sense to people! It’s a pretty decent wage for UK devs, for what I do. Would it make sense to work for a US company?

oh cool so let’s just give up then

lol