PBX Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring PBX skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 - 234
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Permanent jobs citing PBX 17 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.31% - 0.077%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.84% - 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,750 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £41,250 - £37,500
90th Percentile - - £61,500
South East median annual salary £37,500 £30,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +22.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

PBX falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 443 306 904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.17% 10.70% 13.84%
Number of salaries quoted 245 210 683
10th Percentile £26,100 £25,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,920
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.85% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,125 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,250 £47,500 £46,750
% change year-on-year -0.53% +1.60% +3.89%

PBX
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PBX relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

PBX job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

PBX
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PBX.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PBX

PBX
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PBX within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire - 15 £37,500 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 2 - -
PBX
South East

PBX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) Firewall
1 17 (100.00%) VPN
2 15 (88.24%) DECT
2 15 (88.24%) Unified Communications
2 15 (88.24%) VoIP
3 12 (70.59%) DSL
3 12 (70.59%) VLAN
3 12 (70.59%) WAN
3 12 (70.59%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (70.59%) Wireshark
4 2 (11.76%) iSCSI
4 2 (11.76%) Network Security
4 2 (11.76%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (11.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (82.35%) Social Skills
2 12 (70.59%) Marketing
2 12 (70.59%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (17.65%) Account Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Account Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Presales Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (88.24%) Web Conferencing
2 3 (17.65%) Driving Licence
3 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) CentOS
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Presales
2 14 (82.35%) Time Management
3 12 (70.59%) Case Management
4 2 (11.76%) High Availability
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Bash
1 2 (11.76%) C
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (88.24%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) RHCE
2 2 (11.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
1 2 (11.76%) Samba
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Dell
1 2 (11.76%) D-Link
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat