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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 655 730 -
Rank change year-on-year +75 - -
Permanent jobs citing Elixir 9 9 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.013% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.074% 0.042% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £71,250 - -
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 12,149 21,422 21,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.27% 31.60% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 8,381 12,746 17,849
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.77%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £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 5 November 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 5 November 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
England +114 9 £67,500 - 1
Work from Home +64 9 £67,500 - 2
UK excluding London +78 8 £67,500 - 4
North West +36 8 £67,500 -
North of England +19 8 £67,500 -
London - 1 £120,000 - 1

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 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