PCIe Contracts in Bedfordshire

PCIe (PCI Express)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PCIe in contract job vacancies in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PCIe over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PCIe 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 3.81% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £60 - -
East of England median daily rate £305 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £70.38 - -
25th Percentile £82.00 - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £85.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.00% -3.85% -23.53%

All Generic Skills
Bedfordshire

PCIe 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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 96 51 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 40.68% 24.40% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 27 27
10th Percentile £163 £325 £174
25th Percentile £275 £463 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 1
10th Percentile £41.45 £30.45 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £31.12 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +13.64% +214.29%
75th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 -
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +76.47%

PCIe
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing PCIe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for PCIe in Bedfordshire

PCIe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCIe in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for PCIe in Bedfordshire

PCIe
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PCIe in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PCIe in Bedfordshire

PCIe
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PCIe within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Luton - 9 £60 - 4
PCIe
East of England

PCIe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) Ethernet
General
1 9 (100.00%) Electronics
2 8 (88.89%) Games
3 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Firmware Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) FPGA Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Principal Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) FPGA
2 8 (88.89%) Algorithms
2 8 (88.89%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Physics
2 8 (88.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (88.89%) Computer Science
2 8 (88.89%) Cryptography
2 8 (88.89%) Machine Learning
2 8 (88.89%) UVM
3 7 (77.78%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Signal Processing
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) MATLAB
2 8 (88.89%) SystemVerilog
2 8 (88.89%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Degree
1 9 (100.00%) HNC
1 9 (100.00%) HND
2 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) DO-254
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Firmware
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Actel
1 8 (88.89%) Altera
1 8 (88.89%) Intel
1 8 (88.89%) Microsemi
1 8 (88.89%) Xilinx