jobs.perl.org has been active for just about six years now, and here are the number of jobs posted to it by year and month.
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Year | Total | Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
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2001 | 280 | 0 2 8 21 40 34 33 29 34 30 35 14
2002 | 413 | 34 33 35 16 45 26 37 46 33 42 31 35
2003 | 560 | 43 36 56 56 21 39 44 64 53 52 52 44
2004 | 949 | 75 58 78 88 74 88 82 87 65 87 85 82
2005 | 1429 | 93 110 120 135 135 125 115 113 106 132 144 101
2006 | 1857 | 164 138 157 151 166 153 140 176 152 172 179 109
2007 | 74 | 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Don't attach any special meaning to the numbers. Although the numbers of posts are increasing each year, you can't really say anything about the job market from these trends. The only thing we really know is that more companies used jobs.perl.org each year.
I know some people have written some things to scrape the various commercial sites for jobs, so I'd be curious to see the historical data for those if anyone has them.
Recommendations
jonasbn on 2007-01-15T08:11:33
When I get contacted about Perl jobs, either personally or via Copenhagen Perl Mongers, we always recommend that people use jobs.perl.org, instead of our mailinglist, we announce the jobs on the list, but refer to jobs.perl.org
I can only say for the danish Perl jobs, that jobs.perl.org, is slowly coming to the awareness of Perl using employers and recruiters in Denmark, we do not have a lot of these and I would wish if there where more.
I miss the pre-bubble CGI-era
:)
Well at least some aspects of those days.
UK only, but still pretty good..
TeeJay on 2007-01-15T17:16:34
http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d/Details.d/Trends.d/SKILL/PERL.d/index.html (general)
vs
http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d/Details.d/Trends.d/TOTALS/JOBS.d/stats.2007 0113.0506.png (all)
I think that the perl job market tends to act as a bellweather (in the microcosm sense) of the job market as a whole, probably because Perl use is broader than many think, used in banking, aviation, linguistics and bioinformatics, not just the web.
