What level of competence is required to work with the Laravel framework?

To work with Laravel at a junior level, basic knowledge of PHP, understanding of MVC architecture, and the ability to work with routing, migrations, and simple controllers are sufficient. At the middle level, a deeper understanding of the framework's internal structure, experience with Eloquent ORM, service containers, events, queues, and testing is required. It is also important to be able to optimize queries and understand application security.