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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 693 725
Rank change year-on-year +61 +32 +269
Permanent jobs citing Elixir 10 12 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.022% 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.087% 0.066% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £45,000 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -50.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 - £55,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 - -

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 11,472 18,099 21,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.34% 33.70% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8,401 10,572 17,634
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,576
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Elixir in the UK

Elixir
Top 6 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 11 January 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 +72 10 £61,250 - 4
UK excluding London +47 10 £61,250 - 4
Work from Home +79 8 £67,500 - 4
North West +32 8 £67,500 -
North of England +27 8 £67,500 -
South West - 2 £50,000 - 4

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 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Backend Developer
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (50.00%) Senior Backend Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) Product Roadmap
2 8 (80.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 5 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
3 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (10.00%) SDLC
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Go
1 8 (80.00%) Ruby
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) Erlang
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform