"the freelancer marketplace sites seem to be dominated by weak PHP developers" - all the "non-weak" PHP devs I know are in well paid positions already and hardl

"the freelancer marketplace sites seem to be dominated by weak PHP developers" - all the "non-weak" PHP devs I know are in well paid positions already and hardly have time to be on freelancer.com or similar, maybe that's the reason you haven't found one. :-)