The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PACS in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PACS over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the North East region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing PACS 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £263 £256
% change year-on-year
+10.47% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 - £11.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
47 85 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 16.79% 17.21% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 49 28
Average daily rate £300 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £248 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £568 £593
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £23.56 £15.00 £17.18
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.03% -12.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.20 £11.00 £13.44
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.91 £23.00 £20.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
PACS
England

PACS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PACS across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

North East PACS Jobs Demand Trend

PACS
Daily Rate Trend

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

North East PACS Daily Rate Trend

PACS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North East PACS Hourly Rate Trend

PACS
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DameWare
1 1 (50.00%) DICOM
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7

PACS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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.

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) DICOM
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) DameWare
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft