Erlang Job Trends

Erlang
UK

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 642 703 702
Rank change year-on-year +61 -1 +299
Permanent jobs citing Erlang 5 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.002% 0.006%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.043% 0.005% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £70,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 - £60,000

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,539 18,312 20,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.43% 33.78% 38.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,453 10,700 16,826
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
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 £103,750 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Erlang
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Erlang job vacancy trend in the UK

Erlang
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Erlang.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Erlang

Erlang
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Erlang within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +71 5 £52,500 - 8
UK excluding London +42 5 £52,500 - 5
North West +25 3 £60,000 -
North of England +22 3 £60,000 -
Work from Home - 3 £60,000 - 8
South West - 2 £50,000 - 2

Erlang
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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (60.00%) Akka
1 3 (60.00%) Akka.NET
1 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Blockchain
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) API Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Elixir
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform