u/New-Firefighter-7020 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I think you may be mistaken. Last I checked, about 70%+ of all websites are written with PHP and 40% of all websites are Wordpress. So I don’t think there’s a lack of work for either of those (even though they overlap since Wordpress is written in PHP). I didn’t have experien
u/michaelnovati replied ·
The stat you want is in 2025 what percentage of new websites are written in PHP and what is the trend. 80% of WordPress sites are not maintained.
Be smart about this because your career just started and you have a long way to go and every year is a new learning opportunity.
If you don't keep adapting you'll find yourself without a job soon enough unless you are a top 5% PHP programmer.