Elixir Job Trends

Elixir
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Elixir skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 667 794 776
Rank change year-on-year +127 -18 +267
Permanent jobs citing Elixir 9 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.069% 0.008% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 - £73,750
90th Percentile £81,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 - -

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 13,110 24,157 24,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.51% 30.93% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,456 15,118 20,186
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £39,557
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,025 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +81 9 £67,500 - 1
England - 9 £67,500 - 2
UK excluding London +121 8 £67,500 - 1
North of England - 8 £67,500 -
North West - 8 £67,500 -
London - 1 £120,000 - 1

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 4 (44.44%) AWS
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Backend Developer
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Backend Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
1 8 (88.89%) Product Roadmap
1 8 (88.89%) Roadmaps
2 5 (55.56%) Collaborative Culture
2 5 (55.56%) Critical Thinking
2 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Project Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Functional Programming
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Go
1 8 (88.89%) Ruby
2 1 (11.11%) Erlang
2 1 (11.11%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) QA