Wow that is a surprise. No-one even seems to talk about perl anymore.

They're too busy getting paid writing Perl.

lol .. It's still pretty shocking. I know lots of programmers, including some that used to write lots of Perl, and none of them are still working on it. Those job numbers are crazy.

Could it be that there's so many open Perl jobs because there are no programmers to fill them?

There are a still Perl shops out there. ZipRecruiter (where I work) and Booking.com are probably the biggest Perl shops in terms of Perl Dev headcount but I could be unaware of another company that's as big or bigger. There are a number of small to medium size companies in LA that are primarily Perl based and The Rubicon Project has a bit of Perl on the web side and C++ and Java for their ad network. Perl isn't dead, it's just not the hot new kid on the block by a long shot.

As a point of perspective, there are still VB6 shops out there. That's way more "dead" than Perl or Python, but so long as the checks still clear...

I think Rentrak in Portland is still an all Perl shop

Last time i interview also asking for perl and some automation adobe . I only used perl in 2001. Currently code in PHP and C#. Now thinking back, i need to relearn PERL again.:P