Ruby, PHP, ASP.NET Job Comparison

I don’t do RoR….yet, I hear the good things about it so I’m really close into diving into it.  Before I do I want to make sure RoR is going to be something I can use professionally too.  Here is a 30 minute research into the jobs out there for RoR compared to Asp.Net & PHP. I searched for the phrases “Ruby on Rails”, “PHP”, “ASP.NET” and radius of 100 miles from the zip code. There is no doubt some overlap of job posting but this is pretty clear indication of where things are.

8/25/2008

Where I live - Cincinnati Ohio, Midwest

Site	Zip	RoR	PHP	ASP.NET
Monster.com	45102	4	35	114
Career Builder	45102	1	36	89
Hot Jobs	45102	1	12	7
Total		6	83	210

 

Second up New York City, East Coast

Site	Zip	RoR	PHP	ASP.NET
Monster.com	10270	29	357	621
Career Builder	10270	8	184	356
Hot Jobs	10270	18	176	180
Total		55	717	1157

 

And now for the West Coast - San Francisco

Site	Zip	RoR	PHP	ASP.NET
Monster.com	94130	23	216	135
Career Builder	94130	17	123	67
Hot Jobs	94130	31	521	107
Total		71	860	309

 

So for me ASP.NET makes the most sense by far (almost 4x that of PHP).  A surprise to me is on the West Coast, were it looks like ASP.NET is much smaller then else where.  It seems that Ruby on Rails is very much in the incubator stage still, I guess I’m not turning on RoR anytime soon after all.

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Written by Tim on August 26th, 2007 with 64 comments.
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