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 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 387 425
Rank change year-on-year +20 +38 +148
Contract jobs citing PACS 6 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.043% 0.025% 0.020%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.075% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile - - £550
25th Percentile - - £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £160 £681
Median % change year-on-year +337.50% -76.51% -1.02%
75th Percentile - £264 £753
90th Percentile - £327 £781
England median daily rate £494 £170 £438
% change year-on-year +190.29% -61.14% +34.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £87.50 - -

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 5,512 5,321 6,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.16% 33.84% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,518 3,398 4,928
10th Percentile £337 £325 £327
25th Percentile £440 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 63 102
10th Percentile £17.07 £17.30 £18.59
25th Percentile £19.95 £24.15 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +19.60%
75th Percentile £43.74 £56.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £67.71
England median hourly rate £28.00 £46.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.37% +3.78% +50.85%

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
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 14 November 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 +7 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (16.67%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Payments Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Integration Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) PACS Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) ODBC
2 1 (16.67%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (33.33%) NHS
3 1 (16.67%) Derivative
3 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Business Process Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Information Governance
2 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow
2 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VB
2 1 (16.67%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO 20022
1 3 (50.00%) SEPA
2 2 (33.33%) HL7
3 1 (16.67%) DICOM
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) InterSystems