APACS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term APACS in contract job vacancies in the City of 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 120 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing APACS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.055% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 699 652 807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.77% 31.30% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 411 530
10th Percentile £350 £363 £299
25th Percentile £439 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -0.42% -
75th Percentile £688 £704 £725
90th Percentile £788 £831 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £18.70 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £23.02 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £56.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +124.00% -47.09%
75th Percentile £38.88 £76.13 £36.50
90th Percentile £41.83 £85.95 £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £27.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year +2.78% +12.50% -44.19%

APACS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

APACS job vacancy trend in the City of London

APACS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing APACS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing APACS

APACS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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