Erlang Contracts

Erlang
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Erlang skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Erlang 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 515 - 715
Rank change year-on-year - - +123
Contract jobs citing Erlang 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% - 0.005%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.050% - 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £433
25th Percentile - - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile - - £719
90th Percentile - - £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -

All Programming Languages
UK

Erlang 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%

Erlang
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Erlang in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Erlang in the UK

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Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Erlang 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
Scotland - 5 £550 - 1
UK excluding London - 5 £550 - 12

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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 5 (100.00%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Python Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Team
2 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Perl
1 5 (100.00%) Prolog
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware