Laravel still runs the web

Laravel is still a top backend framework in 2025. Learn why it’s powering MVPs, scaling apps, and staying relevant in a fast-changing job market.

From SMEs to high-growth startups, Laravel is still the quiet MVP machine. PHP isn’t dead — it just got better. And in 2025, Laravel continues to power real jobs, real scale, and real velocity.

PHP’s not dead — Laravel proves it

Back in the day, PHP was the punchline of the dev world. But fast-forward to 2025, and Laravel is silently winning where it matters — actual production apps, startup MVPs, and rapid go-to-market tools.

Laravel gives devs structure, routing, ORM, auth, caching, queueing — all out of the box. This is what startups love: speed without the chaos. While the industry throws new JS frameworks every other week, Laravel stands like a seasoned vet — boring maybe, but boring works.

In Bangladesh alone, a 2025 job trend analysis showed Laravel leading PHP job demand by over 70%, with startups, local businesses, and international outsourcing firms preferring Laravel over newer tools for fast builds. Laravel Forge and Vapor also make deployment on AWS or DigitalOcean ridiculously simple, giving devs a DevOps-lite experience without needing to be an infra expert.

At Kaz Software, we’ve seen Laravel play a critical role in prototype-to-product cycles. When speed and cost-efficiency matter, teams often reach for Laravel over heavier stacks. And it's not just small shops. Sites like Laracasts, Barchart, and Alison are Laravel-powered — with millions of users.

Laravel in 2025 is not hype — it’s quiet dominance.

The hiring side loves Laravel

You might think “modern devs” are only being hired for React, Node, or Python stacks — but Laravel is quietly job-secure.

A global developer hiring report by DevSkiller (2025 edition) found that Laravel remains the #2 most tested PHP framework, and one of the top 10 frameworks overall in hiring assessments. It scored high in readability, testability, and project setup speed.

More interestingly, for junior to mid-level devs, Laravel is often used as a filtering signal: those who’ve shipped Laravel apps show they’ve understood MVC, handled real auth/login, dealt with migrations, and maybe even wrote a few APIs. It’s a full-stack sandbox — and employers know that.

On top of that, Laravel’s massive package ecosystem (hello, Livewire, Filament, Inertia.js) lets devs explore hybrid frontend experiences without diving deep into JS-heavy setups. For hiring teams, that means one Laravel dev can do more — fewer dependencies, fewer blockers, more shipping.

At Kaz, when we build internal tools or admin dashboards fast, Laravel gives the team speed without sacrificing maintainability. And when hiring, a Laravel project on your resume still speaks volumes in 2025.

Laravel’s role in the MVP-to-scale story

Speed alone doesn’t win — scale wins. And here’s where Laravel surprises people. While it’s often seen as a rapid prototyping tool, Laravel has matured. Tools like Laravel Octane (Swoole & RoadRunner powered) enable blazing fast performance, especially under concurrent loads.

You want queues? Redis-backed queues with Horizon monitoring. You want real-time? Laravel Echo + Pusher or Socket.IO integration. API-first backends? Laravel Sanctum + Laravel Passport. Laravel has grown from a monolith-first world to one that supports microservices, APIs, and even serverless.

And Laravel Vapor (serverless Laravel on AWS) is making headlines. Dev teams that once feared scaling PHP apps are now building globally distributed, auto-scaling apps with zero infrastructure ops — and it’s still Laravel under the hood.

Developers love tools they can start simple with and grow big from. Laravel gives that. Kaz has shipped Laravel apps that started as MVPs and scaled to handle enterprise-grade loads — without rewriting from scratch.

In 2025, Laravel is the answer to teams who want to move fast, build stable, and scale smart. It’s not old tech — it’s tech that knows what it’s doing.