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None of your list says anything about the language. It says more about the companies hiring.

What does PHP entail??

Erlang, Haskell and OCaml are excelent languages. But good luck assembling a team that can use those languages. e.g.: 30 developers in 1 year.

And those languages are pretty popular compared to others.

The programming language you use is a important factor when it comes to scaling your team (and your product, and your business).

I do not want to start a bikeshedding holy war. The reference implementation of PHP is pretty inferior to that of other scripting languages such as Ruby, Python, Julia and Node. There are other implementations that are better but come at a compatibility cost.

I don't agree with this. I'm not going to get into a holy war, but I soundly disagree that it's inferior. Any C/C++/Java programmer can become productive with php very rapidly. The callstacks are familiar to programmers, the language continues to get faster & faster as older legacy structures are replaced with smarter data-structures allowing for JIT optimizations.

There are more Java jobs than PHP jobs and Java jobs usually pay better than PHP jobs.

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