SC Cleared Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Security Check Clearance Java Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Security Check Clearance Java Developer daily rate in Birmingham is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
6 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 44 -
Rank change year-on-year -27 - -
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.33% 0.80% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.90% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile £498 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £455 £500 -
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -

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 836 442 696
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 88.58% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 294 483
10th Percentile £313 £160 £250
25th Percentile £413 £363 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £572 £575
90th Percentile £688 £651 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 40 42
10th Percentile £16.25 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.15 £12.62 £16.63
Median hourly rate £24.53 £14.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.21% -50.88% +42.50%
75th Percentile £33.75 £24.44 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £31.66 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £21.53 £19.77
% change year-on-year +57.91% +8.88% -1.15%

SC Cleared Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SC Cleared Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SC Cleared Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancies in Birmingham

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 6 June 2026, SC Cleared Java Developer 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 SC Cleared Java Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (66.67%) Bootstrap
2 2 (66.67%) BPMN
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) DbUnit
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate

SC Cleared Java Developer 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (66.67%) DbUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) jMock
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Mockito
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Bootstrap
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) JPA
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) PowerMock
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Batch
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) BPMN
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian
1 2 (66.67%) Jaspersoft
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