
Jobs:
7.000
Average annual salary:
81.000$
Benefits:
PHP is widely used for server-side web development, when a website frequently requests information from a server. As an older language, PHP benefits from a large ecosystem of users who have produced frameworks, libraries, and automation tools to make the programming language easier to use. PHP code is also easy to debug.
Drawbacks:
As Python and JavaScript have gained popularity, PHP’s popularity has dropped. PHP is also known for its security vulnerabilities. According to Indeed, most PHP programmers take short-term roles that last less than one year.
Common uses:
PHP is the code running content-oriented websites such as Facebook, WordPress, and Wikipedia.