I think PHP's popularity has a lot to do with WordPress's popularity. For example, near half of the top 10k websites use it: http://www.wptavern.com/wordpress-p

I think PHP's popularity has a lot to do with WordPress's popularity. For example, near half of the top 10k websites use it: http://www.wptavern.com/wordpress-powering-practically-half-of-the-top-10000-websites http://www.wptavern.com/wordpress-powering-practically-half-... Depending on the definition of "job", there might be many PHP jobs out there because WordPress gigs are typically shortlived deliverables (plugins, installs, etc.).