PABX Contract Job Trends in the South West

Private Automatic Branch Exchange
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring PABX 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 111 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PABX 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.20% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £236 - -
25th Percentile £253 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
75th Percentile £291 - -
90th Percentile £296 - -
England median daily rate £275 £500 -
% change year-on-year -45.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

PABX falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 250 397 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.66% 14.93% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 235 269
10th Percentile £213 £320 £218
25th Percentile £296 £453 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £649 £672 £700
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 28 59
10th Percentile £26.70 £11.75 £40.85
25th Percentile £40.07 £15.00 £48.32
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +15.06% -8.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.06 £65.98
90th Percentile - £78.00 £72.13
England median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%

PABX
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing PABX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for PABX in the South West

PABX
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PABX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PABX

PABX
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PABX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PABX

PABX
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PABX within the South West region 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Somerset - 4 £275 - 3
PABX
England

PABX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Desktop Support
1 3 (75.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) IT Support
2 2 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Smartphone
2 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow