PCIe Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

PCIe (PCI Express)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PCIe in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PCIe over the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing PCIe 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.51% - 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.21% - 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £88 - £560
75th Percentile £421 - -
90th Percentile £618 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £88 - £560
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £83.75 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £87.50 - -

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 96 59 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 48.24% 37.11% 37.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 41 50
10th Percentile £215 £313 £214
25th Percentile £400 £415 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £634 £600 £550
90th Percentile £743 £700 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £413 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £23.00 £15.80 £23.03
25th Percentile £25.06 £17.00 £58.75
Median hourly rate £33.75 £19.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.08% -68.80% +19.05%
75th Percentile £41.56 £21.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £22.40 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +41.30% -58.18% +41.03%

PCIe
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PCIe relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

PCIe job vacancy trend in Cambridge

PCIe
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing PCIe.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing PCIe

PCIe
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCIe in Cambridge over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PCIe in Cambridge

PCIe
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing PCIe.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing PCIe

PCIe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Ethernet
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Hardware Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Verification Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Verification Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) FPGA
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (60.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Adaptive Web Design
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Code Coverage
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Design Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Power Management
2 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Schematic Capture
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) UVM
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Altera
2 1 (20.00%) Cadence