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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 398 413
Rank change year-on-year +45 +15 +73
Contract jobs citing PACS 3 1 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.005% 0.083%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.059% 0.017% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £519 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £180 £375
Median % change year-on-year +205.56% -52.00% -6.13%
75th Percentile £613 - £388
90th Percentile £643 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £179 £588
% change year-on-year +235.66% -69.57% +42.42%

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 5,060 5,882 7,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.74% 29.18% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,985 3,496 4,830
10th Percentile £225 £213 £230
25th Percentile £363 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 644 314
10th Percentile £14.79 £12.15 £16.85
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.71 £20.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £45.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.91% +111.21%
75th Percentile £62.24 £64.44 £66.21
90th Percentile £79.63 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £39.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.57% +12.14% +29.73%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PACS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 20 July 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
South East - 2 £600 - 1
North of England - 1 £500 - 11
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 9
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Healthcare Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Healthcare Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) NHS
2 2 (66.67%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) DICOM
1 1 (33.33%) HL7