PBX Contracts in the UK excluding London

Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PBX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PBX over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 356 434
Rank change year-on-year +37 +78 +52
Contract jobs citing PBX 20 43 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.21% 0.054%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.01% 1.25% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 11
10th Percentile £385 £300 £380
25th Percentile £497 £436 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £590 £775 £919
90th Percentile £645 - £963
UK median daily rate £528 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -15.60% +13.64% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 1,973 3,448 3,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 16.62% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,978 2,282
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £305 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £584
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £518
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.39% +3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 360 327
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.48 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £30.04 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +110.53% -32.74%

PBX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for PBX in the UK excluding London

PBX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PBX in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PBX in the UK excluding London

PBX
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PBX in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PBX in the UK excluding London

PBX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PBX in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PBX in the UK excluding London

PBX
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 PBX within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +34 15 £550 -8.33% 3
South East +45 2 £525 +50.00% 7
North of England +22 1 £725 +53.03% 1
East Midlands +13 1 £500 +143.90%
Midlands +9 1 £500 -33.33% 7
Wales +3 1 £175 - 3
North West - 1 £725 -
PBX
UK

PBX
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) PaaS
1 11 (55.00%) SaaS
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (95.00%) VoIP
2 5 (25.00%) Unified Communications
3 3 (15.00%) 4G
3 3 (15.00%) 5G
3 3 (15.00%) ISDN
3 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (15.00%) WAN
4 2 (10.00%) IP Telephony
5 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 15 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.00%) Billing
2 3 (15.00%) Military
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) Architect
1 3 (15.00%) Telecoms Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Voice Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) IT Support
3 1 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (50.00%) Blackberry
3 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (15.00%) IVR
5 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (55.00%) Migration
3 10 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
3 10 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
3 10 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (45.00%) Service Design
4 9 (45.00%) Thought Leadership
4 9 (45.00%) Validation
5 8 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
5 8 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
5 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (5.00%) Customer Engagement
7 1 (5.00%) Incident Management
7 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
7 1 (5.00%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (5.00%) Task Automation
7 1 (5.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (85.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (65.00%) CCNP
3 13 (65.00%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (60.00%) DV Cleared
5 10 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (15.00%) CCNA
6 3 (15.00%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Cisco
2 13 (65.00%) Ericsson
3 12 (60.00%) F5
3 12 (60.00%) Juniper
3 12 (60.00%) Nokia
3 12 (60.00%) Palo Alto
4 10 (50.00%) Avaya
4 10 (50.00%) Ribbon
4 10 (50.00%) VMware
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.00%) Mitel
6 1 (5.00%) Siemens