Elixir Job Trends

Elixir
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Elixir skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 676 640 821
Rank change year-on-year -36 +181 +182
Permanent jobs citing Elixir 6 16 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.037% 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.045% 0.11% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile - £62,500 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £64,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +40.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £72,500 £55,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 -
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,393 15,089 29,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.21% 34.53% 35.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,441 10,276 24,171
10th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,103
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -1.82%

Elixir
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Elixir relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Elixir job vacancy trend in the UK

Elixir
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Elixir.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Elixir

Elixir
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elixir over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Elixir in the UK

Elixir
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elixir within the UK over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -25 6 £75,000 +20.00% 2
UK excluding London -35 6 £75,000 +7.14%
East of England - 3 £100,000 -
South West - 3 £50,000 -

Elixir
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Blockchain
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Insurtech
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) Erlang
2 3 (50.00%) Ruby
2 3 (50.00%) Rust
2 3 (50.00%) Scala
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) Kotlin
4 1 (16.67%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform