The first table below looks at the demand for PBX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PBX over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
Rank 488 509 543
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +34
Contract jobs citing PBX 53 61 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.110% 0.105% 0.093%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.767% 0.675% 0.715%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 24
Average daily rate £358 £363 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.37% +11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £194 £203 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £256 £400 £325
% change year-on-year
-35.93% +23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £39.50 -
% change year-on-year
-5.06% -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6909 9038 8107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.36% 15.57% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3471 4041 3676
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £208 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 605 809
Average hourly rate £23.75 £24.38 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00

PBX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PBX within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

PBX Jobs Demand Trend

PBX
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PBX within the UK.

PBX Daily Rate Trend

PBX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PBX within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

PBX Daily Rate Histogram

PBX
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PBX within the UK.

PBX Hourly Rate Trend

PBX
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PBX within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

PBX Hourly Rate Histogram

PBX
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PBX within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +6 50 £358 +2.14% 30
London +32 24 £400 +14.28% 11
South East +35 18 £250 - 14
Surrey +28 11 - - 3
City of London +6 11 £400 +14.28% 2
Guildford - 11 - - 3
North West +22 6 - - 3
Berkshire +21 5 £180 - 4
Scotland -12 2 - -
Oxfordshire - 2 £340 - 1
Oxford - 2 £340 -
Croydon - 2 £415 - 1
Manchester +6 1 - -
West Midlands +3 1 £263 - 1
East Midlands -2 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 £263 -
East of England - - - - 1
Luton - - - -
South Wales - - - -
South West - - - -
Wales - - - -
Renfrewshire - - - -
Shropshire - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - -
Sussex - - - -
West Sussex - - - - 4
West Yorkshire - - - -
Wiltshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
Milton Keynes - - - -

PBX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing PBX also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PBX.

1 45 (45.45%) Cisco
2 42 (42.42%) VoIP
3 29 (29.29%) Telecoms
4 24 (24.24%) WAN
5 23 (23.23%) Microsoft
6 21 (21.21%) LAN
6 21 (21.21%) Windows
7 18 (18.18%) TCP/IP
7 18 (18.18%) Firewall
8 17 (17.17%) Avaya
8 17 (17.17%) Linux
9 16 (16.16%) Lync
10 15 (15.15%) Active Directory
10 15 (15.15%) Juniper
10 15 (15.15%) Asterisk PBX
11 14 (14.14%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (13.13%) ITIL
12 13 (13.13%) Migration
12 13 (13.13%) IVR
12 13 (13.13%) IP Telephony
13 11 (11.11%) Service Delivery
13 11 (11.11%) C++
13 11 (11.11%) OO
13 11 (11.11%) STL
13 11 (11.11%) DNS
13 11 (11.11%) GSM
13 11 (11.11%) UMTS
13 11 (11.11%) OOD
13 11 (11.11%) Subversion
13 11 (11.11%) Boost C++ Libraries

PBX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing PBX also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PBX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (11.11%) STL
1 11 (11.11%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (1.010%) VXML
2 1 (1.010%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 16 (16.16%) Lync
2 9 (9.091%) MS Exchange
3 5 (5.051%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (3.030%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 3 (3.030%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.020%) IIS
5 2 (2.020%) Office Communications Server
5 2 (2.020%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (2.020%) CMS
6 1 (1.010%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (1.010%) IBM Notes
6 1 (1.010%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (8.081%) MS Excel
1 8 (8.081%) MS Office
2 2 (2.020%) Google Apps
3 1 (1.010%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.010%) MS Project
3 1 (1.010%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 42 (42.42%) VoIP
2 24 (24.24%) WAN
3 21 (21.21%) LAN
4 18 (18.18%) TCP/IP
4 18 (18.18%) Firewall
5 15 (15.15%) Asterisk PBX
6 13 (13.13%) IP Telephony
7 11 (11.11%) DNS
7 11 (11.11%) GSM
7 11 (11.11%) UMTS
7 11 (11.11%) LTE
8 9 (9.091%) VPN
9 8 (8.081%) BGP
9 8 (8.081%) Wireless
10 7 (7.071%) RANAP
10 7 (7.071%) RTP
10 7 (7.071%) CTI
10 7 (7.071%) Internet
10 7 (7.071%) MPLS
10 7 (7.071%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.020%) MySQL
1 2 (2.020%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.010%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (1.010%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.010%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (11.11%) Subversion
1 11 (11.11%) GCC
1 11 (11.11%) GDB
1 11 (11.11%) Trac
General
1 29 (29.29%) Telecoms
2 7 (7.071%) Finance
2 7 (7.071%) Banking
3 5 (5.051%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.030%) Law
5 2 (2.020%) Billing
5 2 (2.020%) Back Office
6 1 (1.010%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (14.14%) Network Engineer
2 12 (12.12%) Analyst
3 11 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 8 (8.081%) Support Analyst
4 8 (8.081%) Architect
5 7 (7.071%) C++ Software Engineer
6 6 (6.061%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.061%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.051%) Consultant
8 4 (4.040%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.040%) Firewall Engineer
8 4 (4.040%) VoIP Engineer
9 3 (3.030%) Network Manager
9 3 (3.030%) Data Centre Manager
9 3 (3.030%) Technical Manager
9 3 (3.030%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 3 (3.030%) Systems Engineer
10 2 (2.020%) 1st Line Support
10 2 (2.020%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 2 (2.020%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) IVR
2 4 (4.040%) Blackberry
3 3 (3.030%) PaaS
3 3 (3.030%) Handset
4 2 (2.020%) NHS
4 2 (2.020%) SaaS
5 1 (1.010%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.010%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.010%) iPad
5 1 (1.010%) Clustering
5 1 (1.010%) Replication
5 1 (1.010%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.010%) Open Source
5 1 (1.010%) NPfIT
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.21%) Windows
2 17 (17.17%) Linux
3 10 (10.10%) Windows 7
4 6 (6.061%) Windows XP
5 5 (5.051%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (5.051%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (3.030%) UNIX
7 2 (2.020%) HPUX
7 2 (2.020%) Windows 2000
7 2 (2.020%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.010%) Windows Phone
8 1 (1.010%) Windows Vista
8 1 (1.010%) Android
8 1 (1.010%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.010%) Windows NT
8 1 (1.010%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (13.13%) ITIL
1 13 (13.13%) Migration
2 11 (11.11%) Service Delivery
2 11 (11.11%) OO
2 11 (11.11%) OOD
3 5 (5.051%) Change Control
4 4 (4.040%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (4.040%) Problem Management
4 4 (4.040%) Network Architecture
4 4 (4.040%) Network Management
5 3 (3.030%) Validation
5 3 (3.030%) Workflow
5 3 (3.030%) WFM
5 3 (3.030%) Service Management
5 3 (3.030%) PRINCE2
6 2 (2.020%) Change Management
6 2 (2.020%) Data Protection
6 2 (2.020%) Load Balancing
6 2 (2.020%) Use Case
6 2 (2.020%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.11%) C++
2 5 (5.051%) SQL
3 3 (3.030%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.010%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.010%) C
4 1 (1.010%) Perl
4 1 (1.010%) VBScript
4 1 (1.010%) VB
4 1 (1.010%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (14.14%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (10.10%) CCNP
3 8 (8.081%) CCNA
4 7 (7.071%) Degree
5 5 (5.051%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.040%) MCSE
6 4 (4.040%) MCSA
7 3 (3.030%) MCITP
7 3 (3.030%) MCP
8 2 (2.020%) CISSP
8 2 (2.020%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.010%) CCVP
9 1 (1.010%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.010%) MCTS
9 1 (1.010%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.010%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.010%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.030%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.020%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.020%) XenServer
2 2 (2.020%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.010%) vCloud
3 1 (1.010%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.010%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (1.010%) VMware ESX
3 1 (1.010%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.010%) XenApp
3 1 (1.010%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (3.030%) Cisco CUCM
1 3 (3.030%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (2.020%) SCCM
3 1 (1.010%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (1.010%) Plesk
3 1 (1.010%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 45 (45.45%) Cisco
2 23 (23.23%) Microsoft
3 17 (17.17%) Avaya
4 15 (15.15%) Juniper
5 10 (10.10%) HP
6 7 (7.071%) Nortel
7 5 (5.051%) F5
7 5 (5.051%) Siemens
7 5 (5.051%) Genesys
8 4 (4.040%) Riverbed
8 4 (4.040%) BT
9 3 (3.030%) Blue Coat
9 3 (3.030%) Mitel
9 3 (3.030%) CommVault
9 3 (3.030%) Apple
9 3 (3.030%) CheckPoint
10 2 (2.020%) Ericsson
10 2 (2.020%) Citrix
10 2 (2.020%) ProCurve
10 2 (2.020%) Aastra
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Key Skills 2nd/3rd Line Support experience Support of Active Directory Technical Support of ADSL, MPLS Networks, SCCMGood Networking knowledge - Gateway, Alcatel, ISDN Supporting VoIP systems Supporting Windows...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £24.00 - £27.00 per hour
Posted: 3 June 2013
Guildford, Surrey
Keywords:- Software Engineer, Software Developer, Telecoms, Datacoms, C++, Linux, STL, GCC, Make, GDB, GSM, UMTS, LTE, System Design, RANAP, GTP, S1, MAP, CAMEL, Radius, SMNP, SIP, VOIP, RTP,...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Rate: £35 - £40 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
Croydon, Surrey
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Rate: £400 - £430 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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