Is there any scope for PHP and PHP Developers in 2020 ??

Firstly PHP is a very good language. If most of your time spend on internet, you probably have noticed that every 3rd website is using PHP language. So we can not say that there is no scope of PHP developer. But now you are living in a world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Data Science, Robotics etc. You can survive as PHP Developer but you can not just live by developing websites and writing APIs and ignore all the interesting technologies around you. Nowadays PHP loosing it's fame. If you search through job portals for the number of job posting by languages, you will find the current demand of market.

 

As a fresher you have a very good scope in PHP but after a time period once you experienced more than 6 or 7 years you would feel like your career growth has been stopped and your salary package got freeze at a point unless you have already settled in well known company and no one actually care what you are doing for company's future. So besides PHP you should learn some other language or technology in order to save your career scope and growth. There are so many popular JS Framework which have very good scope.

 

Second point, that time are gone when a company is looking for specialist with a single skill set. Now they are looking for a full stack developers with multiple skills sets who can work on backend and frontend as well. You should get prepare for it.

 

For your second question I feel like only MNCs which have limited projects and clients and the startups MNCs looking for PHP Developers.