We're talking about well-paying high quality jobs.

PHP is probably the most commonly used server side language on the web and therefore a PHP developer will never go hungry.  The same is true for COBOL. 

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

You'll see that Haskell is #46 in terms of language popularity.  However, I can almost guarantee that if anybody puts in the time and effort to become an expert Haskell developer, he or she will have well-paid job opportunities around the world.  That's not in spite of it being a niche language - it's because of it.

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On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Evans Marindany <prosnave@gmail.com> wrote:
The languages Adam speaks of seem to  be in low demand, I suppose that's the reason not many people bother to learn them.

An interesting article caught my eye at jobstractor.com — the programming language trends review. The company analyzed more than 60,000 job vacancies during 2012 to produce a chart of the most sought-after technologies:

Language Jobs
PHP 12,664
Java 12,558
Objective C 8,925
SQL 5,165
Android (Java) 4,981
Ruby 3,859
JavaScript 3,742
C# 3,549
C++ 1,908
ActionScript 1,821
Python 1,649
C 1,087
ASP.NET 818

programming language vacancy statistics

Despite developer complaints, demand for PHP and Java (server/Android) remains strong. You would also expect those jobs to require some SQL knowledge although that has a strong showing in its own right.

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