[Phpwm] Where did all the PHP developers go?

[Stephen Orr]

You guys should all be happy you're living down here... average salary back
up North is more like 20k, you have to move into the cities to get anywhere
near the average around here (that's one of the reasons I relocated to the
Midlands).

I saw the job posting too... general opinion seems to be, double that salary
and you might get someone interested!

Steve

On 23 March 2010 14:23, Richard Cunningham
<richard at richardcunningham.co.uk>wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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