[Phpwm] Where did all the PHP developers go?

[Richard Cunningham]

Really there seem to a lot of jobs for "upto £30k" and very little 
interest. That one especially seemed to be asking  for rather a lot.

Maybe it's an age thing. Are the University students learning PHP 
nowadays? on their courses they often learn Java or C# and in their own 
time Python and Ruby are cool, so do any of them learn PHP?

It looks like the *average* salary for someone doing PHP is £30k and if 
you look at the "salary histogram" a lot of people already earn at least 
£25k doing PHP, so maybe £30k isn't enough of a jump in this economic 
climate: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/php.do

Mike Tipping wrote:
> Although cost cutting does mean wages won't go up.
>
> Maybe it's just that in an unstable climate if you have a job you don't jump
> ship unless your going to get more security or a much better salary, and
> I've not seen a lot of great salaries being offered.
>
> That one earlier today for a graduate PHP dev, linux admin, Android
> developer, trainer... All for upto 30K! If that person exists you'll need to
> offer than alot more than that.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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> On 23/3/10 13:17, "Tim Williams" <T.M.Williams at cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> My guess is that the recession has pushed people towards technology
>> choices which are perceived to be cheaper. Assuming you are still in
>> buisness, you are still going to have work that needs to be done but less
>> money to do it with. PHP is probably seen as a cheap technology, so we
>> as PHP developers benefit, while the up market options suffer. It's the
>> Aldi/Lidl effect.
>>
>> Tim W
>>     
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