PACS Contract Job Trends in London

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PACS in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PACS over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 363 402
Rank change year-on-year +2 +39 +147
Contract jobs citing PACS 8 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.056% 0.040% 0.016%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.12% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £340 - £399
25th Percentile £381 - £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £160 £525
Median % change year-on-year +181.25% -69.52% -17.36%
75th Percentile £700 £264 £669
90th Percentile - £327 £748
England median daily rate £490 £160 £350
% change year-on-year +206.09% -54.29% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
London

PACS 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,572 5,157 6,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.00% 34.22% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,572 3,296 4,547
10th Percentile £338 £325 £325
25th Percentile £431 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 66 106
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.86
25th Percentile £19.84 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +15.00% -12.82%
75th Percentile £45.65 £55.94 £49.68
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.93
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.16%

PACS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

PACS job vacancy trend in London

PACS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PACS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PACS

PACS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PACS in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PACS in London

PACS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PACS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PACS

PACS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PACS within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London +3 2 £450 - 2
PACS
England

PACS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Apigee
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) ImageNet
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (12.50%) Data Vault
3 1 (12.50%) Flink
3 1 (12.50%) OLTP
3 1 (12.50%) Star Schema
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka Architect
2 1 (12.50%) PACS Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Payments Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Payments Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) XML
1 2 (25.00%) YAML
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Avro
2 1 (12.50%) FHIR
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) NHS
1 3 (37.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (25.00%) SDLC
1 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Batch Scripting
2 1 (12.50%) CQRS
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Domain Models
2 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
2 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) FinOps
2 1 (12.50%) Informatics
2 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (12.50%) Observability
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO 20022
2 2 (25.00%) HL7
2 2 (25.00%) SEPA
3 1 (12.50%) DICOM
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (25.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Confluent
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle