Like another commenter said, there are a huge number of of web programming jobs out there. That being said it sounds like your skills are somewhat out of date w

Like another commenter said, there are a huge number of of web programming jobs out there. That being said it sounds like your skills are somewhat out of date with current technologies. I doubt you will find many jobs openings for Perl developers, jQuery is also being rapidly replaced with MVVM type front end frameworks. That being said, I see some similarity in your position to the one I was in a few years back. I had just finished a degree in computer engineering and I wanted to start a career as a software developer. I had some background developing basic sites with PHP/HTML/CSS/jQuery but I found that employers were looking for more. I ended up studying a few modern frameworks for a few months and found a job much more easily after that. I'm sure that will be the case for you. Just research the job market and find out what skills are demand and what skills you are lacking, it is probably a lot less work to catch up than you might think. Good luck!