Real Time Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Real-Time Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Real-Time Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £494, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 334 404
Rank change year-on-year -76 +70 -
Contract jobs requiring a Real Time Engineer 2 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.052% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.056% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £486 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - £425
75th Percentile £498 - £438
90th Percentile £499 - -
UK median daily rate £650 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,012 12,438 19,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.50% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,920 7,471 12,259
10th Percentile £219 £210 £213
25th Percentile £375 £363 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £489
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -2.04% -2.20%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,906 641 1,904
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.26 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £29.60 £31.76 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -9.26% -
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.50 £61.66
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.44 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.54 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.55% -4.17% -2.51%

Real Time Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Real Time Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Real Time Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Real Time Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Real Time Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Real Time Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Real Time Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Real Time Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Real Time Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Real Time Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 February 2026. 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
Midlands - 2 £494 -
West Midlands - 2 £494 -
Real Time Engineer
UK

Real Time Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 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 UK excluding London 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 the UK excluding London 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