Leeds PACS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PACS over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)
Location Bath Birmingham Bridgend Cardiff City of London East Midlands England Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Midlands North East North West Somerset South Wales South West UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	58
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	6	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	1.648 %	5.455 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£433	£350
Average daily rate	£477	£463
% change on same period last year	+3.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£520	£575
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£324
% change on same period last year	+15.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.00
Average hourly rate	-	£17.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	£23.88
% change on same period last year	-5.75 %
Miscellaneous Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	364	275
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.480 %	0.274 %
Daily rates quoted	105	43
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£378
Average daily rate	£391	£427
% change on same period last year	-8.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£418	£477
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£352
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.25	£19.26
Average hourly rate	£16.88	£20.84
% change on same period last year	-19.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.50	£22.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.25	£28.69
% change on same period last year	-11.97 %
PACS West Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PACS across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PACS across the Leeds region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PACS across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PACS across the Leeds region.

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Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing PACS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PACS.

1 7 (87.50 %) NHS 2 4 (50.00 %) Health 3 3 (37.50 %) BPR 4 2 (25.00 %) ITIL 4 2 (25.00 %) NPfIT 4 2 (25.00 %) Risk Management 5 1 (12.50 %) Incident Management 5 1 (12.50 %) HL7 5 1 (12.50 %) Web Design 5 1 (12.50 %) Apache 5 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel 5 1 (12.50 %) HTTP 5 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 5 1 (12.50 %) ebXML 5 1 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification

5 1 (12.50 %) TestDirector 5 1 (12.50 %) Perl 5 1 (12.50 %) IIS 5 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 5 1 (12.50 %) ASP 5 1 (12.50 %) SOAP 5 1 (12.50 %) XML 5 1 (12.50 %) XSLT

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing PACS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PACS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) ebXML 1 1 (12.50 %) ASP 1 1 (12.50 %) SOAP 1 1 (12.50 %) XML 1 1 (12.50 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) Apache 1 1 (12.50 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) HTTP
Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) TestDirector	General 1 4 (50.00 %) Health
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Technical Engineer 1 3 (37.50 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 1 3 (37.50 %) Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Desk Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 7 (87.50 %) NHS 2 2 (25.00 %) NPfIT
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) BPR 2 2 (25.00 %) ITIL 2 2 (25.00 %) Risk Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Incident Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Web Design	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) HL7
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft