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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 - 408
Rank change year-on-year - - +91
Contract jobs citing PABX 21 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% - 0.010%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.94% - 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £225 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
75th Percentile £288 - -
90th Percentile £288 - -
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 2,234 2,498 3,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.47% 14.88% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,460 1,369 2,180
10th Percentile £190 £200 £205
25th Percentile £300 £330 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +0.96% +4.56%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £588
90th Percentile £648 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 131 281
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.03 £16.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £26.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £50.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -16.12% -11.49% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.37% -13.64% +35.55%

PABX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

PABX job vacancy trend 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 30 October 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 - 20 £275 -
North West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1
PABX
UK

PABX
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:

Applications
1 14 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Internet
1 1 (4.76%) VoIP
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Aerospace
2 6 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 13 (61.90%) Desktop Support
2 13 (61.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 13 (61.90%) Support Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) IT Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) IT Support
3 7 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 6 (28.57%) Analyst
4 6 (28.57%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Desktop Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Telephony Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (95.24%) Smartphone
2 13 (61.90%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.76%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 20 (95.24%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Customer Service
1 13 (61.90%) Service Delivery
2 1 (4.76%) Coaching
2 1 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (4.76%) Project Planning
2 1 (4.76%) Risk Management
2 1 (4.76%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 20 (95.24%) Security Cleared
2 19 (90.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (61.90%) SLA
2 8 (38.10%) GDPR
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) Avaya
2 1 (4.76%) BT
2 1 (4.76%) Nortel