It was definitely the case when I was looking for a role in the industry after being made redundant - .NET jobs outnumbered PHP easily. At one point, there were no PHP positions on Seek.co.nz nor Trademe.co.nz at all (excluding the recruiting agencies who constantly advertise for a PHP dev, but have no immediate positions - they just want you to register with them!).
Surprisingly while .NET positions were more abundant, they also paid a lot more - most double or more that PHP positions. I put this down to alot of small, cheap development companies always looking for the: fresh, out of uni/polytech, thinks they are elite, but have yet to get experience developers. I don't dispute PHP being more popular - due to its open source nature and easy to learn syntax, but it appears most commercial entities prefer .NET or Java. (cue can of worms as to why ones better than the other). I remember a Kelly Services recruiter telling me that PHP developers were the lowest in the pile of developers - as most were 'back yarders, self taught and lacked commercial development skills'. To a point I agreed, as there are a lot of those .. BUT, there are also those who are the exact opposite and are more than qualified in a commercial sence. Needless to say, I didn't use that agency - if that was his attitude towards PHP devs. ~ C From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ManiKanth A Sent: Tuesday, 13 July 2010 11:22 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [phpug] Most commonly used server-side technology in Wellington Can't imagine .Net and Java accounting for nearly 80% of the job offers while PHP is the most used Server-Side technology and obviously having more jobs . May be people in .Net and Java don't stay in their positions for long and may be recruiters keep on recruiting same positions again and again . :/ Personally in general I would think most PHP positions might not go through recruiter's and are not accounted for . And also there are Self Employed / Independent PHP programmers which won't be accounted with recruiters . ________________________________ From: mikael letang <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 7:56:47 AM Subject: Re: [phpug] Most commonly used server-side technology in Wellington I had a chat on the topic with a recruiter recently, in Auckland though (but I don't think the picture is very different in Wellington) >From memory, he said .net and java accounted for nearly 80% of the job offers >(with roughly equal shares), php for 10-15%, and other languages (ruby, >python, etc) for the remaining 5-10%. I would follow Rimu's advice though and simply compare the number of job offers on seek and trademe. 2010/7/12 Topher <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Hi everyone, I wanted to you ask you all if you thought php was the mostly commonly used server-side technology in Wellington or if .net or some other flavour is more popular? Cheers, Chris. -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]<mailto:nzphpug%[email protected]> -- Mikael Letang Mobile: 021 027 436 45 Skype: mikaelletangns -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
