APACS Contract Job Trends in Central London

Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS)
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term APACS in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited APACS over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing APACS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.050% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Central London

APACS falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 770 741 885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.75% 31.49% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 479 599
10th Percentile £350 £361 £298
25th Percentile £441 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £826 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 12
10th Percentile £18.97 £25.72 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.53 £26.20 £18.45
Median hourly rate £27.75 £27.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +12.50% -44.19%
75th Percentile £37.44 £59.75 £30.69
90th Percentile £41.81 £79.40 £45.73
London median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -27.10% +15.00% -12.82%

APACS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing APACS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

APACS job vacancy trend in Central London

APACS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing APACS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing APACS

APACS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing APACS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 1 - -
APACS
London

APACS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) BASE24
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk