Posted by Andy Dingley on 07/17/05 22:03

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:02:40 -0400, Travis Newbury
<TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I was a little surprised to find that there was better than 10 to 1
>difference in PHP position vs ASP/ASP.net positions.

Here in the UK there's a huge segregation in the markets for the two
skills.

ASP .NET - fair bit of demand.

ASP (old style) - pretty much dead now.

PHP - No demand at all, if you look at a site like JobServe (the main
one)

As far as I can tell, there's more demand for PHP people and more PHP
being done, _but_ the large companies that recruit through agencies, and
the agencies that recruit through JobServe etc. just aren't using PHP.
The PHP work that is happening is one-man-and-dog outfits, or just a
little bigger. These mainly recruit through word of mouth.

As far as commercial work goes for bug projects, it's pretty much all
Java. Yet looking in here, c.i.w.a.h and uk.n.w.a there seems to be
almost no-one else using Java.

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