---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Year | Total | Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 | 1966 | 182 156 181 190 177 168 176 165 145 179 148 99 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Processed 7458 files in 13 seconds, 0.00174 secs/file ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm not affiliated with jobs.perl.org, and this is only the simplest of analyses. I didn't try to correct for duplicate posts where the same job was re-advertised. jobs.perl.org has their own stats, although Dave Rolsky seemed to think my numbers might be better. I don't know if I believe him. :)
I don't attempt to draw any conclusions about the popularity (up or down) of Perl from these numbers. In general, I think that the continual uptrend is more about people finding out about the free service than the same market having more jobs.
I made this same report in 2006 too, and there are some interesting links in the comments. Also interesting is renodino's graphs about jobs on Dice and the code he wrote to make them, along with the discussion about the usefulness of any conclusions.
