Asterisk PBX Contract Job Trends

Digium Asterisk
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 681 555 546
Rank change year-on-year -126 -9 +84
Contract jobs citing Asterisk PBX 7 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.003% 0.024%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.14% 0.027% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £342 - £386
25th Percentile £367 - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -26.40% +8.11% +12.80%
75th Percentile £700 - £525
90th Percentile £730 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £500 -
% change year-on-year +6.80% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,091 3,766 4,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.21% 11.35% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,938 2,405 2,598
10th Percentile £236 £213 £225
25th Percentile £390 £356 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £677 £679 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 186 179
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £15.09
25th Percentile £19.50 £20.04 £25.38
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -29.98% -14.04%
75th Percentile £67.49 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.46 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.07 £41.72 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.51% -24.15% -4.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Asterisk PBX job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Asterisk PBX in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England -116 7 £368 -26.40% 13
UK excluding London -100 6 £534 +6.80% 12
East of England - 4 £368 - 1
South West - 2 £725 - 4
Work from Home - 1 £367 - 2
London - 1 £350 - 1

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) RTCP
1 5 (71.43%) RTP
1 5 (71.43%) VoIP
2 4 (57.14%) Wireshark
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (28.57%) DHCP
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) Network Security
3 2 (28.57%) NX-OS
3 2 (28.57%) PABX
3 2 (28.57%) Wireless
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) FreeSWITCH
1 5 (71.43%) Servlets
2 3 (42.86%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) Conversational AI
2 3 (42.86%) Conversational UI
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Multithreading
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Metaswitch
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Google
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft