Re:What do hackers think of PHP?
by pistoriusp on Monday May 05, 2008 @02:36PM
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Also, Python and Ruby developers earn a bit more.
Here are the average salaries for permanent jobs over the last 3 months according to http://itjobwatch.co.uk:
Python: £45,282
Django: £42,326
RoR: £41,204
Ruby: £39,897
PHP: £33,004
There are also a lot fewer Python, Ruby and Django jobs than PHP jobs there so you would expect to see more low/entry level PHP jobs in there pulling the average down.
Re:What do hackers think of PHP?
by pistoriusp on Monday May 05, 2008 @05:33PM
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You're absolutely correct. They have a maximum and minimum averages, but I don't know how they work them out, so I'm not going to post them.
Number of salaries quoted for the past 3 months: PHP: 5283
RoR: 454
Django: 46
Thanks for pointing that out.
Python seems to have a slightly bigger following in the sciences, at least in my limited experience. That could be pulling salaries up a bit.
I've used PHP for a while -- a few years -- and haven't developed a particular loathing for it. That's saying something, since I'm disgusted by most of the tools I'm forced to use.
It's certainly capable enough and isn't hard to use. It's also more ubiquitous, and therefore arguably more portable, than Ruby or Python, although dealing with differences between PHP versions is a pretty royal pain.
Pretty much any reasonably skilled programmer can do a job in PHP without too much trouble. You'll get more cred for using Python or Ruby though.