Senior WordPress to Next.js migration talent and rates in Healthcare
Senior WordPress to Next.js migration engineers serving healthcare run roughly $110–$160/hr. Stack realities for this combination: Epic / Cerner FHIR R4 + SMART-on-FHIR; HIPAA-eligible AWS/Azure/GCP; Twilio HIPAA-eligible comms; Datadog HIPAA-mode — common integrations: Epic (MyChart / FHIR R4 / App Orchard), Cerner / Oracle Health, Allscripts. Patient portals over PHI, clinician dashboards over PII, scheduling on demographic data
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.