2017 recruitment season: What are the salaries for high-end PHP talents?

The spring of 2017 is here, and it’s the job-hopping season. So what are the salaries for high-end PHP talents in 2017? What is the overall demand environment like? PHP Chinese website reproduces the recruitment data of 100offer, a high-end Internet talent recruitment platform, to illustrate. (How about PHP "Qian Jing"? PHP entry salary statistics)

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Chen Yan is very Frankly, he said: I only have one criterion for selecting offers, money.

Candidate Chen Yan, I just joined the job recently and my position is PHP programmer.

His last job was to start a business with a friend in Internet finance. A friend offered him an annual salary of 400,000 yuan.

Affected by the capital winter, the company's situation was not optimistic. Chen Yan's friend decided to transform and focus on offline services. Chen Yan was more inclined to work on the Internet, so he chose to leave.

Chen Yan expects the salary of the new offer to be 650,000 to 700,000. The reason is that when Chen Yan worked at BAT (according to the candidate's request, it is not convenient to disclose which company) more than a year ago, he received a salary of 550,000. . When Chen Yan chose to leave his job and start a business with a friend, he had received several offers of annual salary of 650,000 to 700,000 yuan, so he believed that he was still worth the price.

It was August 2015 when Chen Yan left his job to start his own business. August 2015 was the peak period for PHP programmers to receive interview invitations from 100offer.

After one year, can Chen Yan still get such a high salary?

Chen Yan interviewed several Internet companies, but the salary offered did not meet his ideal situation. Finally, he joined a traditional industry company as a PHP programmer. The annual salary was 610,000, which was not as good as his ideal value. The gap is too big.

Judging from Chen Yan’s personal case, the decrease in demand for PHP programmers did not greatly affect his annual salary, but it still declined. So, is the same true for the entire environment?

PHP programmers have always been popular whether in market demand or online discussions. So, what is the supply and demand situation of PHP programmers in today's recruitment market?

First, let’s take a look at the trend chart of the total number of interview invitations issued by companies on 100offer that PHP programmers received from January 2015 to August 2016.

From March to August last year, the number of interview invitations issued by companies to PHP programmers has been rising, reaching a peak in July 2015. Compared with the same period this year We can clearly see that the demand for PHP programmers among enterprises is not as good as last year.

Compared with last year, the demand for PHP programmers by enterprises has decreased significantly, and the average number of interview invitations received by PHP programmers on the 100offer platform has plummeted.

Regarding this phenomenon, most people will have two questions -

• Why has the demand for PHP programmers in enterprises decreased?

• Will the reduction in demand lead to a reduction in the salary of PHP programmers?

Behind every phenomenon, there is an essential reason. This time, 100offer combines its own platform data and related person surveys to conduct analysis, and gain insight into the truth behind it from the perspective of the recruitment market.

Why does the reduction in corporate demand not affect the salary of PHP programmers?

Let’s first look at a set of data: from January 2015 to August 2016, the average interview salary and average number of interview invitations received by PHP programmers on 100offer.

(Note: The data comes from the high-end Internet talent recruitment website 100offer, so the average annual salary in the chart will be higher than the market average.)

2015 In May, June, and July, for three consecutive months, candidates received an average of more than 20 interview invitations from 100offer. Then, in September and October 2015, the average interview salary reached a peak of approximately 320,000 yuan. Since September 2015, the popularity of PHP programmers has gradually faded, and the average number of invitations has continued to fall. It was not until June this year that it slowly recovered, and it is still not as popular as the same period last year.

Let’s take a look at the changes in the average salary of PHP programmers in the past two years. It can be seen that compared with the significant decrease in the average number of interviews, the fluctuations in the average annual salary of PHP programmers are not too big. big.

Let us review the two questions at the beginning of the article-

Why has the demand for PHP programmers in enterprises decreased?

Will the reduction in demand reduce the salary of PHP programmers?

The answer to the second question is already obvious: the reduction in corporate demand for PHP programmers has not had a big impact on their salaries. So, we can't help but have new questions -

Why does the reduction in demand not affect the salary of PHP programmers?

Before answering the two new questions that follow, let’s answer the first question: Why has the demand for PHP programmers in enterprises decreased?

The conclusion given by php Chinese website is: This is a normal evolution of the relationship between demand and supply in the recruitment market.

In the past few years, the demand for PHP programmers has grown explosively, but the supply has grown extremely slowly, making PHP programmers extremely popular. In recent years, both demand and supply have undergone tremendous changes. When the market demand for PHP programmers As it gets bigger, the number of programmers who want to work in PHP will increase. When the supply keeps up with the demand, the popularity will naturally decrease, and the demand for PHP programmers by enterprises will also decrease.

This rule is not only true for PHP programmers, but also applies to every position.

What are the reasons that have caused the company's demand for programmers to increase significantly?

The Internet industry is at the forefront. Huge profits have allowed the Internet industry to develop rapidly, which has led to a substantial increase in the demand for programmers in the Internet industry. Not only PHP programmers, but IOS development programmers have also suffered had similar issues.

The policy encourages all people to start their own businesses. The explosion of the Internet has led countless entrepreneurs to choose to enter this industry. Before the capital winter comes, the boom in investment has caused many start-up companies to expand rapidly, thus increasing their demand for programmers.

Other industries are transforming or entering the Internet. Internet thinking has been widely used in the past few years. Countless companies that prefer physical businesses have also slowly developed towards e-commerce. Things that are closely related to people's lives, such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, have corresponding Internet products. The transformation of the industry will inevitably Create demand for jobs.

The above three reasons have caused the demand for programmers to increase in the past few years. Now, the recruitment market has become stable, and the capital winter has also caused the Internet industry to return to calmness, and the demand will naturally decrease accordingly.

After understanding why the demand has decreased, let’s review the last question-

Why will the decrease in demand not affect the salary of PHP programmers?

Among the top one million websites in the world, about 70% are developed using PHP. PHP is used not only in website development, but also in game development, advertising system development, API PHP can be used in interface development, mobile backend development, internal OA system development, etc. Therefore, whether considering the development cycle or calculating development costs, PHP is worthy of priority. This is also true in China. PHP programmers Even if the demand is no longer popular, companies will always need it.

The value produced by PHP programmers has not decreased as demand has decreased, and their salaries will naturally not be affected.

Appendix: What factors will affect the salary of PHP programmers?

Appendix 1: Average annual salary and average number of interview invitations received by PHP programmers with different qualifications from January to August 2016

Compared with the vast majority The positions are the same. The more experienced PHP programmers are, the higher their salary will be. Moreover, the number of interviews per person decreases with increasing experience. PHP programmers are important nodes when they work for 2 years and when they work for 5 years. At these two nodes, , their salary will have a relatively large increase, and the salary increase will be greater in the future.

Appendix 2: Average annual salary and average number of interview invitations for PHP programmers in different cities from January to August 2016

We selected five cities for investigation. From the data point of view, the average salary of PHP programmers in Beijing is the highest, reaching 294,000. The average salary of PHP programmers in Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen is not much different, which are 257,000, 243,000, and 225,000 respectively. Guangzhou PHP The average salary offered by programmers is the lowest, only 177,000.

Appendix 3: Average annual salary and average number of interview invitations received by PHP programmers in cities of different sizes from January to August 2016

From salary Look, it is basically in line with the normal trend of the larger the company, the higher the salary. From the perspective of demand, PHP is in the greatest demand for Series A, Series B, listed companies and companies that do not require financing.

With the balance of supply relationships, the popularity of PHP programmers is decreasing. However, PHP programmers are still the mainstream demand in the market, so the reduced demand for PHP programmers by enterprises will not have a big impact on their salaries. Influence.

The employment trend of PHP programmers is in good condition. The rise and fall in market demand for PHP programmers in the past two years is within the normal market rules. The impact of working years, city, and company size on the salary of PHP programmers It seems that PHP will be a good choice, especially in 2017, a large number of Internet innovative companies emerged, such as shared bicycles, virtual reality, and Internet finance, which are currently in the limelight and require a large number of PHP development talents. Then PHP salary A rising tide will definitely lift all boats!

Only by honing your own strength can you continue to produce value. People who can create value will always be the people that enterprises need. PHP Chinese Network believes that you will be the high-end Internet talent we need.

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