Elixir Contracts

Elixir
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Elixir skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Elixir over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 581 716
Rank change year-on-year +68 +135 +128
Contract jobs citing Elixir 7 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.070% 0.008% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £650 - -
25th Percentile £794 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £700 £400
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +75.00% -34.69%
75th Percentile £875 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £700 -

All Programming Languages
UK

Elixir falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,965 12,846 20,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.04% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,755 9,122 15,089
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £768 £762 £777
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 487 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.70 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%

Elixir
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Elixir as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Elixir in the UK

Elixir
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elixir.

Daily rate trend for Elixir in the UK

Elixir
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elixir over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elixir in the UK

Elixir
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elixir within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 7 £825 - 5
England - 7 £825 - 8
Work from Home - 1 £825 - 9

Elixir
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) Gen AI Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) REST
2 4 (57.14%) LangChain
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 7 (100.00%) LLM
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 7 (100.00%) MLOps
2 6 (85.71%) SDLC
3 4 (57.14%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (14.29%) API Design
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Clojure
1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) Rust
1 7 (100.00%) Scala
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Haskell
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes