Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PBX skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PBX over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 790 952 1097
Rank change year-on-year +162 +145 -302
Permanent jobs citing PBX 98 43 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.042% 0.088%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.72% 0.27% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 89 41 127
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £26,750 £27,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £34,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -30.26% +0.52%
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £64,200 £68,750 £80,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £31,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +4.84% -27.06% +13.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

PBX is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,535 15,801 20,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.65% 15.56% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,435 8,018 11,727
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +132 90 £35,000 - 17
UK excluding London +22 66 £32,500 +4.84% 17
West Midlands +35 25 £28,500 -3.39% 4
Midlands +26 25 £28,500 -3.39% 5
London +140 24 £55,000 -0.90% 4
North of England +52 17 £37,500 -25.00% 2
Work from Home +68 14 £47,500 +31.94% 1
South West -21 9 £35,000 - 5
East of England +19 8 £32,500 +30.00%
North West +9 8 £62,500 +25.00% 2
Yorkshire +84 5 £35,000 -36.36%
South East +7 5 £32,500 +8.33% 2
North East - 4 £26,000 -
Wales +6 2 £27,500 -11.29% 2

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 16 (16.33%) Confluence
2 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.04%) WordPress
4 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (41.84%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (40.82%) Azure
3 20 (20.41%) Entra ID
4 15 (15.31%) AWS
5 9 (9.18%) GCP
6 6 (6.12%) Twilio
7 4 (4.08%) Datadog
7 4 (4.08%) Rubrik
8 3 (3.06%) PaaS
8 3 (3.06%) SaaS
9 2 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.04%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.02%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 50 (51.02%) Firewall
2 37 (37.76%) VoIP
3 18 (18.37%) WAN
4 16 (16.33%) LAN
5 12 (12.24%) TCP/IP
5 12 (12.24%) Wireless
6 11 (11.22%) VLAN
7 9 (9.18%) Broadband
7 9 (9.18%) VPN
8 6 (6.12%) Asterisk PBX
8 6 (6.12%) NetScaler
9 5 (5.10%) ADSL
9 5 (5.10%) Ethernet
9 5 (5.10%) SD-WAN
9 5 (5.10%) Unified Communications
10 4 (4.08%) RTP
11 3 (3.06%) DNS
11 3 (3.06%) Internet
11 3 (3.06%) MPLS
11 3 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.33%) MySQL
1 16 (16.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 16 (16.33%) Bitbucket
1 16 (16.33%) JIRA
2 15 (15.31%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.06%) Rational DOORS
General
1 44 (44.90%) Telecoms
2 42 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (17.35%) Finance
4 6 (6.12%) Billing
4 6 (6.12%) Electronics
5 4 (4.08%) Law
5 4 (4.08%) Legal
6 2 (2.04%) Digital Economy
6 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.04%) Retail
7 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (37.76%) Support Engineer
2 18 (18.37%) IT Engineer
3 16 (16.33%) Systems Engineer
4 15 (15.31%) Systems Support
4 15 (15.31%) Systems Support Engineer
5 14 (14.29%) IT Support
6 12 (12.24%) Network Engineer
7 11 (11.22%) IT Support Engineer
8 10 (10.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 9 (9.18%) Architect
9 9 (9.18%) Senior
10 6 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Installations Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Senior Network Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Telecoms Manager
11 5 (5.10%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) 2nd Line Support
11 5 (5.10%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Project Engineer
12 4 (4.08%) Service Delivery Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.04%) CSS
1 2 (2.04%) HTML
1 2 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.33%) Replication
2 6 (6.12%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.10%) CCTV
4 4 (4.08%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.08%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.08%) Handset
4 4 (4.08%) IVR
4 4 (4.08%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (4.08%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.06%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.02%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 50 (51.02%) Windows
2 32 (32.65%) Linux
3 23 (23.47%) Windows Server
4 20 (20.41%) Windows 10
5 16 (16.33%) Mac OS
5 16 (16.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (4.08%) Unix
6 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.04%) CentOS
7 2 (2.04%) Mac OS X
7 2 (2.04%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (44.90%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (17.35%) Fintech
2 17 (17.35%) Mentoring
2 17 (17.35%) Project Management
3 16 (16.33%) Task Automation
4 15 (15.31%) CI/CD
5 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Management
5 10 (10.20%) Migration
6 9 (9.18%) Service Delivery
7 8 (8.16%) Customer Experience
7 8 (8.16%) Customer Service
7 8 (8.16%) Incident Management
8 7 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (7.14%) ITIL
8 7 (7.14%) Time Management
9 6 (6.12%) Load Balancing
9 6 (6.12%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 6 (6.12%) Server Management
10 5 (5.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.39%) PowerShell
2 16 (16.33%) Bash
3 5 (5.10%) Python
4 4 (4.08%) SQL
5 2 (2.04%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (26.53%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (22.45%) CCNA
3 19 (19.39%) Degree
4 9 (9.18%) CCNP
5 4 (4.08%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.06%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.06%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.04%) CCIE
7 2 (2.04%) CCIE Data Center
7 2 (2.04%) HND
7 2 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.02%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.18%) SLA
2 7 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 41 (41.84%) Active Directory
2 31 (31.63%) VMware ESXi
3 27 (27.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (17.35%) Hyper-V
5 5 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (5.10%) vSphere
6 2 (2.04%) Kamailio
6 2 (2.04%) Terminal Services
6 2 (2.04%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.02%) pfSense
7 1 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (17.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (16.33%) SCCM
3 1 (1.02%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (1.02%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 42 (42.86%) VMware
2 38 (38.78%) Microsoft
3 24 (24.49%) Cisco
4 22 (22.45%) Palo Alto
4 22 (22.45%) Veeam
5 15 (15.31%) Atlassian
5 15 (15.31%) Mitel
6 12 (12.24%) Meraki
7 9 (9.18%) Citrix
7 9 (9.18%) HP
8 6 (6.12%) Aruba
8 6 (6.12%) Fortinet
8 6 (6.12%) NetApp
8 6 (6.12%) Riverbed
8 6 (6.12%) Verint
9 5 (5.10%) Ribbon
9 5 (5.10%) Salesforce
10 4 (4.08%) Ericsson
10 4 (4.08%) SolarWinds
10 4 (4.08%) Symantec