Senior WordPress to Next.js migration talent and rates in Recruitment & HR Tech
Senior WordPress to Next.js migration engineers serving recruitment & hr tech run roughly $110–$160/hr. Stack realities for this combination: Workday + Greenhouse + LinkedIn API + Checkr + HiBob — common integrations: Workday + Greenhouse + Lever ATS, LinkedIn Talent Solutions API, Checkr + Sterling background checks. Career sites; candidate portals; campus-recruiting hubs
What WordPress to Next.js migration actually requires in 2026
2026 migration stack: Next.js 14/15 App Router, headless WP via WPGraphQL or REST API, Sanity/Payload CMS for those abandoning WP entirely, Vercel/Cloudflare Pages hosting, Algolia/Typesense for search, and Cloudinary/Mux for media. Custom-post-types map to GraphQL fragments. Migration engineers must read PHP comfortably (to understand what's being migrated), reason about Next.js SSG/ISR caching, handle 301 redirect maps for SEO preservation, and own the cutover window. Mid-level Next.js devs without WP fluency miss 30% of the underlying behaviors.