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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

real-time systems

165 live US technical postings name real-time systems in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 165 postings naming real-time systems that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer82.4%
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer6.1%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer4.8%
  4. 4AI Engineer1.8%
  5. 5Frontend Engineer1.8%
  6. 6Backend Engineer1.2%
  7. 7DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.2%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where real-time systems is named

Not enough disclosed salaries to publish a band — only 28 of these postings state one. We would rather show nothing than a median built on a handful of rows.

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA15.2%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA12.1%
  3. 3Remote11.5%
  4. 4New York, NY6.1%
  5. 5Austin, TX3.6%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA3.6%
  7. 7Seattle, WA3.6%
  8. 8Washington, DC3%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.