Here are the numbers for the number of job advertisements posted to jobs.perl.org in 2008, by month. 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. 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 through 2006 is about more people discovering the service, and the dismal numbers in 2008 mostly reflect the current economic cycle more than anything to do with technology.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2008 | 1451 | 156 140 152 158 156 158 136 110 85 87 71 42 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Also see the threads for the 2006 and 2007 jobs.perl.org reports for past discussions.. Some other resources include:
