Real Time Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Real-Time Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Real-Time Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £494, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Real Time Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.24% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £486 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - -
75th Percentile £498 - -
90th Percentile £499 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £494 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 739 584 701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.04% 92.55% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 402 462
10th Percentile £259 £190 £235
25th Percentile £400 £366 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £665 £708 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 38
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.80 £12.80
25th Percentile £17.09 £25.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.47% +6.84% +75.79%
75th Percentile £27.68 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £32.63 £56.85 £69.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £23.71 £22.50
% change year-on-year +5.44% +5.38% +26.98%

Real Time Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Real Time Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Real Time Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Real Time Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 6 February 2026, Real Time Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Real Time Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Beam
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Composer
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Validation

Real Time Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Composer
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Beam
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google