I'm very happy that you've been contacted by recruiters. First of all you're somewhere in the U.S. , let me tell you that across Europe(non-UK) the job market for Perl has plummeted completely. There are a few Perl jobs to be found and most(read >90%) of them are sysadmin-like jobs and even more of them are for small companies which may disappear(read vaporize) completely within one year.