Hybrid/Remote Real Time Engineer Job Trends

Real-Time Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Real-Time Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 456 -
Rank change year-on-year +73 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Real Time Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.006% 0.005% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.005% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £102,500 £63,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £66,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £69,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £105,000 £70,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -36.36% +49.15%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,779 19,019 21,254
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 96.64% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8,925 11,814 17,326
10th Percentile £29,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

Real Time Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Real Time Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Real Time Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Real Time Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Real Time Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Real Time Engineer job vacancies

Real Time Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 9 November 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Real Time Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Akka
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RxJava
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux
1 1 (100.00%) TDD

Real Time Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Akka
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RxJava
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes