It’s interesting that it appears there are more jobs for Freelance PHP developers in Cape Town than there are for Freelance C# developers.
I’m surprised by this because I assumed (incorrectly it appears) that there would be more PHP developers out there as its been around a long time and its “free” and most coders have used it at one time or another. Obviously though finding a “good” PHP developer is probably as hard as finding a good C# developer, perhaps even harder given there are so many out there, there may be more “bad” ones.
Maybe I should spend more time sharpening my PHP skills than my C# skills?
I would say there’s a bigger demand for php developers because the barrier to entry is lower. Even if you are more employable, do you really want to learn php so that you have to maintain an app written by someone who half understood what he was doing?
But if the barrier to entry is lower wouldn’t that mean there are more php “developers”? and not more php work? I think I under-estimated the amount of web development going on in Cape Town / South Africa.
Although the R50 – R100 an hour rates that people want to pay for php developers may explain why there is a shortage.