PBX Contract Job Trends

Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PBX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 519 605
Rank change year-on-year -60 +86 +173
Contract jobs citing PBX 7 34 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.099% 0.014%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 0.78% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 4
10th Percentile £293 £466 £303
25th Percentile £338 £475 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £408
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +47.24% -14.21%
75th Percentile £490 £650 £568
90th Percentile £519 £738 £812
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £600 £408
% change year-on-year -25.00% +47.24% +16.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 3,957 4,337 6,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.86% 12.65% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,577 2,536 3,772
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £582 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 151 341
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.18 £21.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -31.82% +31.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £76.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.75 £41.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +6.71% -27.42% +25.53%

PBX
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PBX job vacancy trend in the UK

PBX
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

PBX
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PBX over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PBX in the UK

PBX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

PBX
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 December 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
England -59 6 £450 -25.00% 11
UK excluding London -72 4 £450 -25.00% 12
Midlands - 2 £363 - 1
South West -28 1 £490 -18.33% 2
West Midlands - 1 £275 -
Channel Islands - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £450 - 1

PBX
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) PSTN
2 1 (14.29%) 2G
2 1 (14.29%) 3G
2 1 (14.29%) 4G
2 1 (14.29%) 5G
2 1 (14.29%) DPNSS
2 1 (14.29%) QSIG
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP
2 1 (14.29%) VoLTE
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Aerospace
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Field Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Telephony Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Testing Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
1 1 (14.29%) Handset
1 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Service Design
2 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Ribbon
3 1 (14.29%) Avaya
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Ericsson
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) Nokia
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Samsung
3 1 (14.29%) VMware