PCIe Contracts in the East of England

PCIe (PCI Express)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PCIe in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PCIe over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 111 122
Rank change year-on-year +36 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing PCIe 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.75% 0.052% 0.048%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.68% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 - £340
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £71.63 - -
25th Percentile £82.50 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £86.50 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.40% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £89.00 - -
England median hourly rate £86.50 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year +38.40% - -

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 416 512 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.35% 26.82% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 253 450
10th Percentile £225 £178 £185
25th Percentile £398 £295 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 127 52
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.24 £20.54
25th Percentile £26.30 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%
75th Percentile £83.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.00 £79.38
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

PCIe
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing PCIe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for PCIe in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCIe in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for PCIe in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCIe in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for PCIe in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PCIe in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PCIe in the East of England

PCIe
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PCIe within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bedfordshire - 3 - - 13
Hertfordshire - 3 - - 1
Cambridgeshire +10 1 £550 - 5
PCIe
England

PCIe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (42.86%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Electronics
1 3 (42.86%) Games
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Embedded Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
1 3 (42.86%) FPGA
1 3 (42.86%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
1 3 (42.86%) Cryptography
1 3 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
1 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
1 3 (42.86%) Physics
1 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
1 3 (42.86%) SysML
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
1 3 (42.86%) UML
1 3 (42.86%) UVM
2 1 (14.29%) Memory Management
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C
2 3 (42.86%) MATLAB
2 3 (42.86%) SystemVerilog
2 3 (42.86%) Tcl
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
1 3 (42.86%) HNC
1 3 (42.86%) HND
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) DO-254
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) KVM
2 1 (14.29%) QEMU
2 1 (14.29%) Xen
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Actel
1 3 (42.86%) Altera
1 3 (42.86%) Intel
1 3 (42.86%) Microsemi
1 3 (42.86%) Xilinx