PABX Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Private Automatic Branch Exchange
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PABX skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 - 427
Rank change year-on-year - - +84
Contract jobs citing PABX 11 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.071% - 0.009%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.53% - 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £225 - -
25th Percentile £244 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
75th Percentile £288 - -
90th Percentile £295 - -
UK median daily rate £275 £500 -
% change year-on-year -45.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,081 2,575 3,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.34% 14.51% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,314 1,403 2,191
10th Percentile £200 £203 £206
25th Percentile £314 £350 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +5.95% +2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £640 £665 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 191 261
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.16 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.33 £24.34
Median hourly rate £42.50 £57.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% -0.26% +27.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.95 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.00% -11.49% +40.83%

PABX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PABX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PABX in the UK excluding London

PABX
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

PABX
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

PABX
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 PABX within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
South West - 11 £275 - 3
PABX
UK

PABX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft 365
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Aerospace
2 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Desktop Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Desktop Support
2 7 (63.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Support Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) IT Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) IT Support
3 4 (36.36%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 3 (27.27%) Analyst
4 3 (27.27%) Support Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Smartphone
2 7 (63.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Customer Service
1 7 (63.64%) Service Delivery
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (90.91%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) SLA
2 5 (45.45%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) ServiceNow