Asterisk PBX Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Asterisk PBX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 383 360
Rank change year-on-year -100 -23 +55
Contract jobs citing Asterisk PBX 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.021% 0.006% 0.012%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.20% 0.047% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile £368 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% - -
75th Percentile £713 - -
90th Percentile £735 - -
UK median daily rate £368 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -26.40% +8.11% +12.80%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Asterisk PBX 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,951 2,125 2,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.36% 13.35% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,624 1,376 1,376
10th Percentile £213 £191 £200
25th Percentile £352 £300 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £585
90th Percentile £650 £641 £651
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 132 147
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £16.08
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.32 £26.25
Median hourly rate £26.07 £41.72 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.51% -24.15% -4.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.22 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -4.41% -29.98% -14.04%

Asterisk PBX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Asterisk PBX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Asterisk PBX job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Asterisk PBX
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Asterisk PBX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Asterisk PBX

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Asterisk PBX in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Asterisk PBX in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Asterisk PBX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Asterisk PBX

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Asterisk PBX within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England - 4 £368 - 1
South West - 2 £725 - 4
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) RTCP
1 4 (66.67%) RTP
1 4 (66.67%) VoIP
2 3 (50.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 2 (33.33%) NX-OS
3 2 (33.33%) PABX
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) FreeSWITCH
1 4 (66.67%) Servlets
2 3 (50.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) Conversational AI
2 2 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Metaswitch
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft