PACS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PACS in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PACS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 453 594
Rank change year-on-year +107 +141 -116
Contract jobs citing PACS 1 14 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.056% 0.057%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.023% 0.18% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - £433 £294
25th Percentile - £481 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +43.75% -18.99%
75th Percentile - £588 £438
90th Percentile - - £563
UK median daily rate £350 £513 £406
% change year-on-year -31.71% +26.15% -10.71%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

PACS is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,324 7,910 13,903
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.64% 31.48% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,949 5,561 9,934
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £792 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 154 221
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.38 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% -18.24% +4.90%

PACS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PACS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PACS trend for jobs with a WFH option

PACS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PACS.

PACS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PACS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) e-Health
1 1 (100.00%) LIMS
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ePrescribing
1 1 (100.00%) Health Informatics
1 1 (100.00%) Informatics
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HL7