It's fashionable to declare Perl dead, but the truth of the matter is Perl is still everywhere.

Often in places like automation, or gluing disparate systems together.

While I know the TIOBE index has its flaws, Perl is consistently in the top 10 and has maintained that level of popularity for 20+ years.

With a history like that many critical systems are going to have a Perl dependency somewhere which means companies are going to need Perl developers.