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 have cited PCIe over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 717 842
Rank change year-on-year +125 +125 -163
Contract jobs citing PCIe 6 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.003% 0.008%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.046% 0.010% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £340 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - £46.60
25th Percentile £60.25 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £60.75 - £85.00
90th Percentile £62.55 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.43%

All Generic Skills
UK

PCIe is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

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
Top 5 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 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +69 5 - - 28
Scotland - 4 - - 2
England +128 2 - - 28
London +101 1 - - 2
East of England +17 1 - - 17

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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
General
1 5 (83.33%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Baseband Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) FPGA Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Device Driver
1 4 (66.67%) IoT
1 4 (66.67%) Verilog
1 4 (66.67%) VHDL
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Code Optimisation
1 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (66.67%) Defect Tracking
1 4 (66.67%) Device Driver Development
1 4 (66.67%) Memory Management
1 4 (66.67%) Requirements Management
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) FPGA Design
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) MISRA
1 4 (66.67%) MISRA C
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Atlassian
1 4 (66.67%) Intel