The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PACS in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PACS over the 3 months to 23 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)
Rank 839 868 854
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -14
Permanent jobs citing PACS 23 30 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.021% 0.025% 0.015%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.064% 0.075% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 14 16 19
Average salary £36,750 £39,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.76% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £37,500 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £43,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £39,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-11.39% +21.53%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
35925 39961 43579
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 33.40% 33.10% 34.57%
Number of salaries quoted 29475 33667 36543
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%

PACS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing PACS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

PACS Jobs Demand Trend

PACS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PACS within the UK.

PACS Salary Trend

PACS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PACS over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

PACS Salary Histogram

PACS
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PACS within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +15 20 £35,000 -10.25%
West Midlands -18 5 £27,500 -41.48%
North West - 5 £35,000 -
Warwickshire - 5 £27,500 -
Warrington - 5 £35,000 -
Cheshire - 5 £35,000 -
Warwick - 4 £31,250 -
London +19 3 £47,500 +23.37%
South West - 3 £40,000 -
Surrey +15 2 £38,500 -1.28%
South East 0 2 £38,500 -1.28%
Epsom - 2 £38,500 -
New Malden +2 1 £40,000 -4.76%
East of England - 1 £31,500 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 £31,500 -
Nottingham - 1 - -
Bedford - 1 £31,500 -

PACS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PACS.

1 15 (34.09%) NHS
2 12 (27.27%) HL7
3 11 (25.00%) Windows
4 10 (22.73%) DICOM
5 8 (18.18%) e-Health
6 7 (15.91%) Marketing
6 7 (15.91%) Workflow
6 7 (15.91%) SQL
7 6 (13.64%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (13.64%) VMware
8 5 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (11.36%) SAN
8 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
8 5 (11.36%) Oracle
8 5 (11.36%) UNIX
8 5 (11.36%) MS Excel
9 4 (9.091%) SQL Server
9 4 (9.091%) Project Management
9 4 (9.091%) Finance
9 4 (9.091%) Service Delivery
9 4 (9.091%) Change Management
10 3 (6.818%) Firewall
10 3 (6.818%) Management Information System
10 3 (6.818%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (6.818%) Degree
10 3 (6.818%) Information Management
10 3 (6.818%) Workflow Management
10 3 (6.818%) LIMS
10 3 (6.818%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (6.818%) NetApp

PACS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PACS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.273%) WPF
1 1 (2.273%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.273%) Ajax
1 1 (2.273%) JavaBeans
1 1 (2.273%) COM
1 1 (2.273%) Servlets
1 1 (2.273%) SOAP
1 1 (2.273%) Web Services
1 1 (2.273%) XML
1 1 (2.273%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.273%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (2.273%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.273%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (11.36%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.273%) InfoPath
2 1 (2.273%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) SAN
2 3 (6.818%) Firewall
2 3 (6.818%) VPN
2 3 (6.818%) LAN
3 1 (2.273%) HTTP
3 1 (2.273%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.091%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.545%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (4.545%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.273%) SQLPlus
3 1 (2.273%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (2.273%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 7 (15.91%) Marketing
2 6 (13.64%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (9.091%) Finance
4 1 (2.273%) Legal
4 1 (2.273%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.273%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 7 (15.91%) Analyst
2 4 (9.091%) Administrator
3 3 (6.818%) Server Administrator
3 3 (6.818%) Windows Administrator
3 3 (6.818%) Project Manager
3 3 (6.818%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (6.818%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (4.545%) Consultant
4 2 (4.545%) Test Analyst
4 2 (4.545%) Integration Analyst
4 2 (4.545%) Systems Integration Analyst
4 2 (4.545%) Implementation Analyst
4 2 (4.545%) Installations Engineer
4 2 (4.545%) Integration Manager
4 2 (4.545%) Technical Support
4 2 (4.545%) Support Engineer
4 2 (4.545%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (4.545%) Field Engineer
5 1 (2.273%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (2.273%) Change Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.09%) NHS
2 8 (18.18%) e-Health
3 3 (6.818%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.818%) LIMS
3 3 (6.818%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.545%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.273%) Clustering
5 1 (2.273%) E-Learning
5 1 (2.273%) Data Integration
5 1 (2.273%) Visualisation
5 1 (2.273%) Informatics
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.00%) Windows
2 5 (11.36%) UNIX
3 3 (6.818%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (6.818%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (6.818%) Windows XP
3 3 (6.818%) Linux
4 1 (2.273%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.273%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (15.91%) Workflow
2 4 (9.091%) Project Management
2 4 (9.091%) Service Delivery
2 4 (9.091%) Change Management
3 3 (6.818%) Information Management
3 3 (6.818%) Workflow Management
3 3 (6.818%) PRINCE2
4 2 (4.545%) High Availability
4 2 (4.545%) ITIL
4 2 (4.545%) ERP
4 2 (4.545%) Software Testing
4 2 (4.545%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (4.545%) Problem Management
5 1 (2.273%) Service Management
5 1 (2.273%) Migration
5 1 (2.273%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (2.273%) Programme Management
5 1 (2.273%) Data Management
5 1 (2.273%) Data Migration
5 1 (2.273%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) SQL
2 1 (2.273%) C
2 1 (2.273%) C#
2 1 (2.273%) C++
2 1 (2.273%) Java
2 1 (2.273%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.818%) Degree
2 2 (4.545%) ISEB
2 2 (4.545%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.273%) A+ Certification
3 1 (2.273%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.273%) PMP
3 1 (2.273%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.273%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.273%) HNC
3 1 (2.273%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (27.27%) HL7
2 10 (22.73%) DICOM
3 1 (2.273%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.273%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) VMware
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle
3 3 (6.818%) NetApp
3 3 (6.818%) HP
3 3 (6.818%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.818%) Citrix
3 3 (6.818%) 3PAR
4 1 (2.273%) Meridio
4 1 (2.273%) Cisco
4 1 (2.273%) IBM
4 1 (2.273%) Dell
4 1 (2.273%) SAP
4 1 (2.273%) Sybase
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