Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring PBX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PBX over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 780 845 1150
Rank change year-on-year +65 +305 -270
Permanent jobs citing PBX 62 42 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.052% 0.071%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.56% 0.32% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 58 41 115
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £28,200
25th Percentile £26,750 £27,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £35,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -28.21% +14.71%
75th Percentile £53,438 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £64,425 £73,750 £80,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £33,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% -19.51% +17.14%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11,133 12,974 22,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 16.08% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,152 7,381 12,357
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £38,367
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,083 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

PBX
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PBX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PBX in the UK

PBX
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PBX.

Salary trend for PBX in the UK

PBX
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PBX over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for PBX in the UK

PBX
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PBX within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England +50 55 £32,500 -9.72% 5
UK excluding London -9 52 £32,500 -1.52% 5
West Midlands +14 20 £28,500 -3.39%
Midlands -5 20 £28,500 -3.39%
Work from Home +39 13 £47,500 -26.92% 3
North of England +15 12 £62,500 +25.00% 2
South West +1 7 £35,000 +16.67% 2
East of England - 7 £32,500 -
North West -8 6 £62,500 +25.00% 1
London +74 4 £68,750 -5.17% 1
South East -7 4 £32,500 -
Yorkshire - 3 £35,000 - 1
North East - 3 £26,000 -
Wales +30 2 £27,500 +14.58%

PBX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.23%) WordPress
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (54.84%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (53.23%) Azure
3 15 (24.19%) Entra ID
4 9 (14.52%) AWS
5 7 (11.29%) GCP
6 6 (9.68%) Twilio
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.23%) Datadog
8 2 (3.23%) Mimecast
8 2 (3.23%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 28 (45.16%) VoIP
2 25 (40.32%) Firewall
3 13 (20.97%) WAN
4 11 (17.74%) LAN
4 11 (17.74%) TCP/IP
4 11 (17.74%) VLAN
5 7 (11.29%) Asterisk PBX
5 7 (11.29%) VPN
6 6 (9.68%) Broadband
7 5 (8.06%) Ethernet
7 5 (8.06%) RTP
7 5 (8.06%) SD-WAN
7 5 (8.06%) Unified Communications
7 5 (8.06%) Wireless
8 3 (4.84%) ADSL
9 2 (3.23%) DKIM
9 2 (3.23%) DMARC
9 2 (3.23%) NetScaler
9 2 (3.23%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (3.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
2 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 31 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 25 (40.32%) Social Skills
3 13 (20.97%) Finance
4 6 (9.68%) Billing
4 6 (9.68%) Electronics
5 2 (3.23%) Law
5 2 (3.23%) Legal
5 2 (3.23%) Retail
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (29.03%) Support Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) IT Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) IT Support
4 8 (12.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Architect
6 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Installations Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Telecoms Manager
7 5 (8.06%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (8.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Network Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Project Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Senior
8 4 (6.45%) Service Delivery Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.84%) Technical Architect
10 2 (3.23%) IT Technician
10 2 (3.23%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) CSS
1 2 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (1.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Replication
2 5 (8.06%) CCTV
3 4 (6.45%) Driving Licence
3 4 (6.45%) Handset
3 4 (6.45%) IVR
3 4 (6.45%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (45.16%) Windows
2 18 (29.03%) Windows Server
3 17 (27.42%) Linux
4 15 (24.19%) Windows 10
5 11 (17.74%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (8.06%) Unix
7 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (4.84%) CentOS
8 3 (4.84%) Ubuntu
9 2 (3.23%) Mac OS X
10 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure Management
3 8 (12.90%) Incident Management
3 8 (12.90%) Migration
3 8 (12.90%) Service Delivery
4 7 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (11.29%) Time Management
5 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (9.68%) Server Management
6 5 (8.06%) Application Virtualisation
6 5 (8.06%) CRM
6 5 (8.06%) Customer Experience
6 5 (8.06%) Network Management
6 5 (8.06%) Patch Management
6 5 (8.06%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 5 (8.06%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 4 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (6.45%) Customer Service
7 4 (6.45%) ITIL
8 3 (4.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
1 4 (6.45%) SQL
2 3 (4.84%) C
2 3 (4.84%) Python
3 1 (1.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (6.45%) CCNA
2 4 (6.45%) CCNP
2 4 (6.45%) Degree
3 1 (1.61%) CCIE
3 1 (1.61%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (9.68%) SLA
3 5 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (33.87%) Active Directory
2 20 (32.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (20.97%) Hyper-V
4 12 (19.35%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (8.06%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (8.06%) vSphere
6 3 (4.84%) Kamailio
7 2 (3.23%) Terminal Services
7 2 (3.23%) VMware Server
8 1 (1.61%) pfSense
8 1 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Intune
1 11 (17.74%) SCCM
2 1 (1.61%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (1.61%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 32 (51.61%) Microsoft
2 21 (33.87%) VMware
3 13 (20.97%) Veeam
4 11 (17.74%) Mitel
5 10 (16.13%) Cisco
6 6 (9.68%) HP
6 6 (9.68%) Verint
7 5 (8.06%) Fortinet
7 5 (8.06%) Meraki
7 5 (8.06%) Salesforce
8 4 (6.45%) Citrix
8 4 (6.45%) Symantec
9 3 (4.84%) Dialogic
9 3 (4.84%) Palo Alto
9 3 (4.84%) Red Hat
9 3 (4.84%) Ribbon
10 2 (3.23%) Aruba
10 2 (3.23%) Riverbed
10 2 (3.23%) Sage
10 2 (3.23%) SolarWinds