PCIe Contract Job Trends in Scotland

PCIe (PCI Express)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PCIe in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PCIe over the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 109 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing PCIe 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.19% 0.054% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £65 - -
UK median daily rate £383 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -19.47% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £75.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.67% +15.38% -10.34%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 661 644 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.31% 34.72% 36.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 378 550
10th Percentile £185 £200 £212
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 19
10th Percentile £15.70 £12.30 £11.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.68 £15.50
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.30 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +8.89% -40.38%
75th Percentile £57.50 £24.08 £54.38
90th Percentile £63.60 £34.11 £60.72
UK median hourly rate £29.27 £50.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -41.46% +11.73% +72.12%

PCIe
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PCIe in Scotland

PCIe
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PCIe

PCIe
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PCIe

PCIe
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PCIe within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 September 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
Edinburgh +15 3 £65 - 4
PCIe
UK

PCIe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Ethernet
General
1 3 (100.00%) Electronics
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Firmware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) FPGA
1 3 (100.00%) VHDL
2 1 (33.33%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 3 (100.00%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 3 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) DO-254
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Altera
1 3 (100.00%) Xilinx
2 2 (66.67%) Microsemi
3 1 (33.33%) Actel
3 1 (33.33%) Intel
3 1 (33.33%) Siemens