<story><title>2020&apos;s fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/2020s-fastest-rising-tech-jobs-programming-language-php-leads-the-way/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iainctduncan</author><text>I suspect this is driven by the fact that a boatload of small companies suddenly had to get their businesses online in a hurry. By number of websites and e-commcerce platforms for small businesses, PHP is massive. By amount of use in +$1M ARR established tech companies, it&amp;#x27;s miniscule. Covid no doubt drove a lot more of the former this year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AaronNewcomer</author><text>This is silly. Lots of large companies use php for their internal applications. I built a php based backend for one of the largest sellers on amazon, in php. That company is approaching $1B in annual revenue.&lt;p&gt;Php allowed my team to move amazingly fast and deliver what the business needed very quickly. In e-commerce and dealing with Amazon specificity, rules and methods change monthly and you always have to be able to quickly pivot to remain competitive and I think php was a big factor in allowing this to happen.</text></comment>
<story><title>2020&apos;s fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/2020s-fastest-rising-tech-jobs-programming-language-php-leads-the-way/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iainctduncan</author><text>I suspect this is driven by the fact that a boatload of small companies suddenly had to get their businesses online in a hurry. By number of websites and e-commcerce platforms for small businesses, PHP is massive. By amount of use in +$1M ARR established tech companies, it&amp;#x27;s miniscule. Covid no doubt drove a lot more of the former this year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>Also, most tech companies have presumably stopped hiring junior developers. So if you just taught yourself how to code and want to get a job as a developer, doing WordPress or Magento for some family business might be your best option right now.</text></comment>