PCIe Contracts

PCIe (PCI Express)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PCIe in contract job vacancies. 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 508 576 716
Rank change year-on-year +68 +140 +133
Contract jobs citing PCIe 12 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.014% 0.003%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.045% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £340
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile £66.30 - -
25th Percentile £76.25 £60.25 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £60.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.50% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £60.75 -
90th Percentile £88.80 £62.55 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 £60.50 -
% change year-on-year +40.50% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

PCIe
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PCIe in the UK

PCIe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCIe.

Daily rate trend for PCIe in the UK

PCIe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PCIe in the UK

PCIe
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for PCIe in the UK

PCIe
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PCIe within the UK 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
England +66 11 £550 - 37
UK excluding London +66 8 £550 - 34
East of England +36 7 £550 - 14
London +41 4 - - 7
Work from Home - 2 £550 - 20
Scotland +10 1 - - 3

PCIe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (33.33%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (33.33%) Electronics
2 3 (25.00%) Games
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
3 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior FPGA Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Firmware Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) FPGA
1 8 (66.67%) Verilog
2 5 (41.67%) VHDL
3 4 (33.33%) Data Centre
4 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Machine Learning
2 5 (41.67%) FPGA Design
3 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 4 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) UVM
4 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (25.00%) Cryptography
4 3 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (25.00%) Physics
4 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (25.00%) SysML
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (25.00%) UML
5 1 (8.33%) Memory Management
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SystemVerilog
2 7 (58.33%) Tcl
3 4 (33.33%) C
3 4 (33.33%) MATLAB
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) C++
4 1 (8.33%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) HNC
2 3 (25.00%) HND
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) DO-254
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Firmware
2 1 (8.33%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (8.33%) KVM
2 1 (8.33%) QEMU
2 1 (8.33%) Xen
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Xilinx
2 7 (58.33%) Intel
3 4 (33.33%) Altera
3 4 (33.33%) Microsemi
4 3 (25.00%) Actel