According to an interesting article of Naveen Bala on www.odinjobs.com: “The combined search engine column estimates that for every 100 PHP developers, there are 42 Perl developers, there are 12 Python developers and 4 Ruby developers.”
And the winner is – PHP of course!
Of course this method is not very accurate, I think the result is more closer to “How popular is various Programming Language”, but you know what I mean.
I try to use his method to find out most updated statistics (Google only), here is what I found (again, this is just for simple reference and fun, DO NOT take it seriously):
Original method:
(intitle:resume OR inurl:resume) LanguageName -intitle:jobs -resumes -apply
- PHP: 729,000
- Java: 177,000
- PERL: 55,900
- C#: 55,000
- Python: 25,200
- VB.NET: 21,600
- Ruby: 13,600
after add a filter – filetype:pdf, which should be more accurate:
- Java: 19,000
- PHP: 17,000
- PERL: 9,420
- C#: 5,090
- Python: 4,730
- Ruby: 2,320
- VB.Net: 1,510