[badcppdev]

So are you saying that you didn't see a salary difference between PHP roles and C# or Java roles? I've said before that I think modern PHP + tools can be very productive but smart/good developers will find that CV/Salary pressures steers them away from PHP.

[zmxz]

> So are you saying that you didn't see a salary difference between PHP roles and C# or Java roles?

No. What I said was that language was not as relevant as the complete engineering ability that makes someone a valuable (financially viable) employee.

> but smart/good developers will find that CV/Salary pressures steers them away from PHP

I never met a person who entered world of IT with the criteria that you highlighted there. My recent experience shows that people enter IT/development based on salary alone, not based on research they conducted taking into account industry they'd work in, language features etc.

If this case you wrote of actually existed, world of software would be a place of much more high quality software and not of "it barely works" projects that resemble Frankenstein's monster.

[badcppdev]

That's very interesting.

My experience in London/UK market is that offered salaries are based on market rates based on keywords including tech stack. And I know a decent number of competent developers who deliberately moved away from PHP because of the lower offered salaries. It might just be the local ecosystem which imo doesn't really value engineering roles in general