PACS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PACS in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PACS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 392 427
Rank change year-on-year +55 +35 +61
Contract jobs citing PACS 2 7 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.034% 0.083%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.047% 0.11% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £410 - £323
25th Percentile £425 - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £475 - £394
90th Percentile £490 - £398
UK median daily rate £525 £350 £325
% change year-on-year +50.00% +7.69% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.56
Median hourly rate - - £26.11
75th Percentile - - £26.67
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.67 - £26.11

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,246 6,122 7,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.19% 29.50% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,666 5,259
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £376 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 724 436
10th Percentile £16.81 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.28 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.42 £28.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% +27.84% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.64 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.28 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.58% +33.42% -18.24%

PACS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PACS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PACS in the UK excluding London

PACS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PACS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PACS in the UK excluding London

PACS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PACS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PACS in the UK excluding London

PACS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Midlands +14 1 £400 +14.29%
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 12
North of England - 1 £500 - 12
PACS
UK

PACS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) LIMS
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) HL7
2 1 (50.00%) DICOM
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker