Real Time Engineer Job Trends in England

Real-Time Engineer
UK > England

The median Real-Time Engineer salary in England is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 593 685 641
Rank change year-on-year +92 -44 +362
Permanent jobs requiring a Real Time Engineer 2 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.004% 0.006% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.006% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £63,700 -
25th Percentile £102,500 £64,750 £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £68,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.41% -38.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £107,500 £69,750 £115,000
90th Percentile - £69,900 -
UK median annual salary £105,000 £68,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +54.41% -38.18% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 46,760 47,653 41,166
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.43% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 29,322 25,743 32,277
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Real Time Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Real Time Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Real Time Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Real Time Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Real Time Engineer job vacancies in England

Real Time Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Real Time Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
London +59 1 £105,000 +54.41%
South East - 1 - -
Real Time Engineer
UK

Real Time Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Real Time Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Real Time Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Akka
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) RxJava
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Spring

Real Time Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (50.00%) Akka
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) RxJava
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes