I think it is safe to say that after 6-12 months of solid experience, the hourly rate should be at least double that. Graduates with more than just site-building skills can (and should) expect more.
is $25 unless there are significant learning and mentoring opportunities as part of the gig. In general, I tell our graduates that if they get a contracting gig right after graduation the minimum hourly rate they should expect in the U.S. What kind of starting salary could a junior Drupal developer expect? A lot of that depends on the students involvement in the community as well as their networking and sales skills. We’ve had students completely new to Drupal take our 12-week Drupal Career Online program and land Drupal contracting jobs almost immediately after graduation. I think that structured long-form training combined with a healthy dose of community involvement is probably the best way to compress the time necessary to be employable. If they sit at home and read Drupal books and don’t interact with the community, then it could be a very long time. Well, I’m biased, here, but I think it totally depends on the type of training the person participates in. If someone is starting from scratch, how long would it take them get employable experience in Drupal? Whether that something is coding or data migration or project management or QA or outstanding customer-facing skills or SEO, being more than a one-trick pony can certainly pay off.
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I also think that while having strong site-building skills is key to get a developer job in Drupal, it seems like most employers are looking for site-building plus something.
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From my experience, designers that also know how to create a Drupal theme and know modern front-end tools are some of the best-compensated contractors I’ve seen. Take a look at today and I think you’ll find that there’s almost as many positions for front-end developers as there are back-end developers. There’s clearly a renaissance going on in front-end development – one that isn’t limited to the Drupal universe. I think it’s better to talk about front-end versus back-end developers. I think that it depends on your definition of the word designer. Do you think it’s still true that developers are still the most likely to find work? A couple of years ago we looked at jobs on and found that about 80% of jobs were for developers and only 10% for designers. There’s the obvious ones like site developers and themers, but there’s also project management, performance, content strategy, quality assurance, support, and many, many more. That being said, there are plenty of careers in the Drupal ecosystem. Well, I wouldn’t necessarily agree that building a career from selling Drupal products isn’t possible, it just isn’t very common. What kind of careers are available in Drupal? With many CMS’s, people can build a career from selling products. We just need to develop the mechanisms to make it happen. There are plenty of junior-level Drupal developers just looking for the opportunity to contribute to an organization and learn from more seasoned developers. Organizations with more than a handful of developers should be focusing on building an internal mechanism to hire junior developer and grow them into more advanced positions. I think the solution to this has to come from both directions: increased training opportunities as well as organizations using Drupal making a concerted effort to develop an internal talent pipeline. I think there is a senior-level Drupal developer talent shortage – mainly because that’s all that most organizations are looking for. Also, I just celebrated the 9-year anniversary of my user account! I hear people say there’s a talent shortage in Drupal. I’ve been one of the main organizers of the Florida Drupal Users’ Group and Florida DrupalCamp for over five years, and I help manage the Drupal Association’s Community Cultivation Grants program. I specialize in Drupal training and development, and I’ve developed one of the first and longest running long-form Drupal career training programs around. I’m the co-founder and vice president of DrupalEasy, a Drupal training and consulting firm based in Central Florida.
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