PCIe (PCI Express)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PCIe in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PCIe over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 707 850 967
Rank change year-on-year +143 +117 +263
Permanent jobs citing PCIe 5 28 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.028% 0.006%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.025% 0.080% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 3 24 2
10th Percentile - £37,500 £31,650
25th Percentile £62,500 £43,438 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +11.70% -14.55%
75th Percentile £97,500 £68,750 £59,875
90th Percentile £109,500 £80,000 £65,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +11.70% -14.55%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,972 35,117 43,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.26% 35.46% 43.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,799 23,005 23,580
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £108,491
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PCIe.

Salary trend for PCIe in the UK

PCIe
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCIe over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PCIe in the UK

PCIe
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PCIe within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +161 5 £70,000 +33.33% 38
England +121 4 £70,000 +33.33% 42
South West +106 3 £70,000 - 6
Scotland +119 1 - - 3
South East +90 1 £115,000 +119.05% 16

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Multicast
1 1 (20.00%) RTP
1 1 (20.00%) RTSP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) OpenCL
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (60.00%) CUDA
2 3 (60.00%) Device Driver
3 1 (20.00%) ASIC
3 1 (20.00%) ASIC Verification
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Signage
3 1 (20.00%) IPTV
3 1 (20.00%) MPEG
3 1 (20.00%) NVMe
3 1 (20.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Device Driver Development
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Content Management
4 1 (20.00%) Electronic Design Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (20.00%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C
1 4 (80.00%) C++
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (20.00%) Tcl
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Graphcore
2 1 (20.00%) Cadence
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Siemens
2 1 (20.00%) Synopsys