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I should probably narrow the query a bit (I'm using a job board aggregator), but there are a number of startups built on PHP, most notably Facebook. Yahoo uses it in places, and don't forget all the companies who need a WordPress, Magento, Drupal, etc. developer. These technologies run multi-million dollar businesses. And after years of consulting, I can tell you business owners don't care what's under the hood if it solves their problem with good ROI.

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Where you checked the outstanding jobs matters as well - something like Monster.com likely has a different group of companies using it that other sources.

Also, don't FB and Google (and other firms) mostly have their own recruiters?

I search job board aggregators and do my level best to filter out agency recruiters. I don't trust the exact job numbers, of course, but I trust the rankings because the deltas are large enough.

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