Uri, I don't think the job market is going down. I think that Perl might be trending into being an "old" technology...
As a recruiter I notice trends. Perl jobs seem to have peaked in 2005 and 2006. I count the late 90's as a never to be repeated state of fantasy. I am seeing Google influence the world towards Python and the growing LAMP community both are supplanting areas where Perl was the language of choice. Also places that used Perl for apps, I am noticing, are moving to Java/XML combinations with the proliferation of broadband networking beyond just internet access. I see Perl becoming more niche into systems software, particularly in QA areas where file systems and interaction with Linux and Unix OS components are needed. Overall I am seeing a fairly steep steady rise in overall software FTE-Direct Employee hiring and the contract market, while growing, is not as strong. For Perl developers, I would recommend having either Java2/J2SE with XML or have strong knowledge of file systems (NFS, CIFS etc.) and their protocols. -Lars -----Original Message----- From: Dave Rolsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:23 PM To: jobs-discuss@perl.org Subject: Re: annual job stats? On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Uri Guttman wrote: > and you can see the monthly postings since may 2001 at: > > http://jobs.perl.org/about/stats > > dunno what more you need. trivial to download that and pipe it into a > graphing thingie of your choice. a quick eyeballing shows solid growth > in each year and never a major long term downslide in postings per > month. part of this is due to repeated posts > for the same unfilled jobs and also the word keeps spreading about the > site and list. more agencies and companies seem to be using it. > > the only downtrend i see is that december seems to always be a > low month but that makes sense. These stats aren't the best option. When a job expires and gets renewed, we update the date of the posting, so jobs move from month to month if they're reposted. brian d foy produced some stats based on mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list which are probably better. It seemed like job postings have only gone up in the past few years. Whether that's the market or simply that jobs.perl.org has better market _share_ is impossible to know. -dave /*=================================================== VegGuide.Org www.BookIRead.com Your guide to all that's veg. My book blog ===================================================*/
