Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PBX skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PBX over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 797 931 1090
Rank change year-on-year +134 +159 -305
Permanent jobs citing PBX 99 39 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.037% 0.092%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.73% 0.24% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 90 37 133
10th Percentile £26,225 £23,600 £31,400
25th Percentile £28,438 £26,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £33,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -29.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £41,659 £68,750
90th Percentile £63,975 £61,500 £80,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £31,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year +4.84% -24.39% +4.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

PBX is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

PBX
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PBX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PBX in the UK

PBX
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PBX.

Salary trend for PBX in the UK

PBX
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PBX over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PBX in the UK

PBX
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PBX within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +171 91 £37,500 +7.14% 16
UK excluding London +46 65 £32,500 +4.84% 18
London +152 26 £55,000 +52.78% 2
Midlands +29 22 £28,500 -31.59% 7
West Midlands - 22 £28,500 - 4
North of England +62 17 £37,500 -25.00% 2
Work from Home +94 15 £47,500 +35.71% 2
South West +3 9 £35,000 - 5
East of England +20 8 £32,500 +30.00%
North West +15 8 £62,500 +25.00% 2
South East +23 7 £32,500 +22.64%
Yorkshire +97 5 £35,000 -36.36%
North East - 4 £26,000 -
Wales +10 2 £27,500 -11.29% 2

PBX
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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (18.18%) Confluence
2 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.02%) WordPress
4 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (39.39%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (37.37%) Azure
3 17 (17.17%) Entra ID
4 15 (15.15%) AWS
5 9 (9.09%) GCP
6 6 (6.06%) Twilio
7 4 (4.04%) Datadog
7 4 (4.04%) Rubrik
7 4 (4.04%) SaaS
8 3 (3.03%) PaaS
9 2 (2.02%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.01%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 49 (49.49%) Firewall
2 37 (37.37%) VoIP
3 18 (18.18%) WAN
4 16 (16.16%) LAN
5 12 (12.12%) TCP/IP
5 12 (12.12%) VLAN
5 12 (12.12%) Wireless
6 10 (10.10%) Broadband
7 9 (9.09%) VPN
8 6 (6.06%) Ethernet
8 6 (6.06%) NetScaler
8 6 (6.06%) Unified Communications
9 5 (5.05%) ADSL
9 5 (5.05%) Asterisk PBX
9 5 (5.05%) SD-WAN
10 4 (4.04%) Internet
11 3 (3.03%) DNS
11 3 (3.03%) MPLS
11 3 (3.03%) RTP
11 3 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.18%) MySQL
1 18 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 18 (18.18%) Bitbucket
1 18 (18.18%) JIRA
2 17 (17.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.03%) Rational DOORS
General
1 43 (43.43%) Telecoms
2 41 (41.41%) Social Skills
3 18 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (17.17%) Finance
5 6 (6.06%) Billing
5 6 (6.06%) Electronics
6 4 (4.04%) Law
6 4 (4.04%) Legal
7 2 (2.02%) Digital Economy
7 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.02%) Retail
8 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (35.35%) Support Engineer
2 18 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 17 (17.17%) Systems Engineer
4 16 (16.16%) Systems Support
4 16 (16.16%) Systems Support Engineer
5 13 (13.13%) IT Support
6 12 (12.12%) Network Engineer
7 10 (10.10%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (10.10%) Senior
8 8 (8.08%) Architect
9 7 (7.07%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) Installations Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) Telecoms Manager
11 5 (5.05%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Project Engineer
12 4 (4.04%) Service Delivery Engineer
13 3 (3.03%) 2nd Line Support
13 3 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.02%) CSS
1 2 (2.02%) HTML
1 2 (2.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Replication
2 6 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.05%) CCTV
4 4 (4.04%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.04%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.04%) Handset
4 4 (4.04%) IVR
4 4 (4.04%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (4.04%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.03%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.01%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 49 (49.49%) Windows
2 34 (34.34%) Linux
3 20 (20.20%) Windows Server
4 18 (18.18%) Mac OS
5 17 (17.17%) Windows 10
6 13 (13.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (3.03%) Mac OS X
8 3 (3.03%) Unix
9 1 (1.01%) Android
9 1 (1.01%) CentOS
9 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (19.19%) Fintech
3 18 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 18 (18.18%) Project Management
3 18 (18.18%) Task Automation
4 17 (17.17%) CI/CD
5 10 (10.10%) Infrastructure Management
5 10 (10.10%) Migration
6 9 (9.09%) Customer Service
6 9 (9.09%) Service Delivery
7 8 (8.08%) Customer Experience
7 8 (8.08%) Incident Management
8 7 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (7.07%) ITIL
8 7 (7.07%) Time Management
9 6 (6.06%) Load Balancing
9 6 (6.06%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 6 (6.06%) Server Management
10 5 (5.05%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.21%) PowerShell
2 18 (18.18%) Bash
3 5 (5.05%) Python
4 4 (4.04%) SQL
5 1 (1.01%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (28.28%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (24.24%) CCNA
3 20 (20.20%) Degree
4 9 (9.09%) CCNP
5 4 (4.04%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.03%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.02%) CCIE
7 2 (2.02%) CCIE Data Center
7 2 (2.02%) HND
7 2 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.01%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.09%) SLA
2 7 (7.07%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.02%) GDPR
System Software
1 40 (40.40%) Active Directory
2 30 (30.30%) VMware ESXi
3 25 (25.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (16.16%) Hyper-V
5 5 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (5.05%) vSphere
6 2 (2.02%) Terminal Services
6 2 (2.02%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.01%) Kamailio
7 1 (1.01%) pfSense
7 1 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (14.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (13.13%) SCCM
3 1 (1.01%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (1.01%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 42 (42.42%) VMware
2 39 (39.39%) Microsoft
3 24 (24.24%) Palo Alto
4 23 (23.23%) Cisco
5 19 (19.19%) Veeam
6 17 (17.17%) Atlassian
7 15 (15.15%) Mitel
8 12 (12.12%) Meraki
9 9 (9.09%) Citrix
9 9 (9.09%) HP
10 6 (6.06%) Aruba
10 6 (6.06%) Fortinet
10 6 (6.06%) NetApp
10 6 (6.06%) Riverbed
10 6 (6.06%) Verint
11 5 (5.05%) Salesforce
12 4 (4.04%) Avaya
12 4 (4.04%) Ericsson
12 4 (4.04%) Ribbon
12 4 (4.04%) Symantec