PACS Job Trends in Scotland

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PACS in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PACS over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 - 249
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing PACS 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.060% - 0.033%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% - 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £75,000
75th Percentile £87,500 - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £40,000 £46,250 £44,500
% change year-on-year -13.51% +3.93% -11.00%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

PACS falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 891 717 2,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.90% 29.28% 45.07%
Number of salaries quoted 501 285 829
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £29,020
25th Percentile £31,500 £43,750 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.40%

PACS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

PACS job vacancy trend in Scotland

PACS
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PACS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PACS

PACS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PACS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 2 £85,000 - 2
PACS
UK

PACS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Health
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) FHIR
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (100.00%) Biomedicine
1 2 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 2 (100.00%) Business Case
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Product Management
1 2 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) DICOM
1 2 (100.00%) HL7