What about the talent pool: Laravel vs Django developers?

Both have substantial talent pools. PHP and Laravel developers are abundant and the Laravel community is highly active. Python and Django developers are abundant too, though a meaningful share of Python talent is concentrated in data science and ML rather than web development, so dedicated Django web developers can be a slightly narrower pool than the raw Python numbers suggest. For web application hiring specifically, Laravel often offers a deeper pool of framework specialists. For a team that already works in Python (data heavy organisations, ML companies), Django keeps everyone in one language.