SC Cleared Java Developer Contracts in England

Security Check Clearance Java Developer
UK > England

The median Security Check Clearance Java Developer daily rate in England is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 489 544
Rank change year-on-year +61 +55 +121
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 57 53 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.15% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 50 80
10th Percentile £416 £418 £453
25th Percentile £514 £456 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.72% -11.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £585 £538 £725
90th Percentile £606 £620 £738
UK median daily rate £530 £480 £550
% change year-on-year +10.42% -12.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £68.15
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £73.75
% change year-on-year - - +22.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

SC Cleared Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SC Cleared Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in England

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Java Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in England

SC Cleared Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Java Developer in England

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Java Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in England

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared Java Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +43 41 £550 +18.92% 2
North of England +15 8 £530 +0.95%
North West +13 6 £530 +0.95%
South East +45 3 £569 -15.74% 1
Midlands - 3 £420 -
West Midlands - 3 £420 -
Yorkshire +9 2 £438 -20.45%
South West - 2 £625 -
SC Cleared Java Developer
UK

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SC Cleared Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SC Cleared Java Developer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) Java
1 57 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 57 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 48 (84.21%) Spring Boot
3 45 (78.95%) Microservices
3 45 (78.95%) Spring
3 45 (78.95%) SQL
4 39 (68.42%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (66.67%) Agile
5 38 (66.67%) Public Sector
6 32 (56.14%) Kafka
7 31 (54.39%) DevOps
8 30 (52.63%) React
9 29 (50.88%) Clean Code
9 29 (50.88%) AWS
10 23 (40.35%) JUnit
10 23 (40.35%) Kubernetes
11 22 (38.60%) MongoDB
12 21 (36.84%) TDD
13 19 (33.33%) JavaScript
13 19 (33.33%) Relational Database
13 19 (33.33%) Docker
14 18 (31.58%) Jenkins
15 17 (29.82%) API Development
15 17 (29.82%) Containerisation
16 16 (28.07%) AWS Certified Developer
16 16 (28.07%) Swagger
16 16 (28.07%) SOLID
16 16 (28.07%) NoSQL
16 16 (28.07%) Git

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.26%) JBoss
1 3 (5.26%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.51%) Camunda
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.75%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.88%) AWS
2 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
2 2 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (3.51%) AWS KMS
2 2 (3.51%) Azure
2 2 (3.51%) Route 53
2 2 (3.51%) Slack
3 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (68.42%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (38.60%) MongoDB
3 19 (33.33%) Relational Database
4 16 (28.07%) NoSQL
5 6 (10.53%) MySQL
6 4 (7.02%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (5.26%) Neo4j
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (3.51%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (3.51%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.75%) GIS
9 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (40.35%) JUnit
2 18 (31.58%) Jenkins
3 16 (28.07%) Git
4 13 (22.81%) Maven
4 13 (22.81%) Mockito
5 12 (21.05%) GitLab
6 11 (19.30%) Gradle
6 11 (19.30%) Liquibase
7 5 (8.77%) JIRA
7 5 (8.77%) SonarQube
8 4 (7.02%) Selenium
9 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
9 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
9 2 (3.51%) DbUnit
9 2 (3.51%) Jasmine
9 2 (3.51%) jMock
10 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 11 (19.30%) Electronics
2 11 (19.30%) Finance
2 11 (19.30%) Manufacturing
2 11 (19.30%) Marketing
2 11 (19.30%) Telecoms
3 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (84.21%) Spring Boot
2 45 (78.95%) Spring
3 32 (56.14%) Kafka
4 30 (52.63%) React
5 16 (28.07%) Swagger
6 15 (26.32%) OpenAPI
7 12 (21.05%) AngularJS
8 8 (14.04%) REST
9 7 (12.28%) Hibernate
9 7 (12.28%) Web Services
10 6 (10.53%) RESTful
11 5 (8.77%) SOAP
11 5 (8.77%) Spring Batch
11 5 (8.77%) Struts
12 4 (7.02%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (7.02%) Bootstrap
12 4 (7.02%) JPA
12 4 (7.02%) JSP
12 4 (7.02%) Spring Integration
12 4 (7.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (3.51%) PKI
1 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Linux
2 4 (7.02%) Windows
3 3 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (78.95%) Microservices
2 38 (66.67%) Agile
3 31 (54.39%) DevOps
4 29 (50.88%) Clean Code
5 21 (36.84%) TDD
6 17 (29.82%) API Development
6 17 (29.82%) Containerisation
7 16 (28.07%) SOLID
8 15 (26.32%) CI/CD
8 15 (26.32%) Software Engineering
9 12 (21.05%) Build Automation
9 12 (21.05%) Migration
10 11 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (19.30%) Digital Marketing
10 11 (19.30%) Event-Driven
10 11 (19.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 11 (19.30%) Programme Management
11 9 (15.79%) Scrum
12 6 (10.53%) BDD
13 5 (8.77%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 57 (100.00%) Java
2 45 (78.95%) SQL
3 19 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 11 (19.30%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.51%) Bash
7 1 (1.75%) Ada
7 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.75%) Python
7 1 (1.75%) XPath
Qualifications
1 57 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 57 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (28.07%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (3.51%) OCP
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (3.51%) Sun Certification
4 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.75%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) Def Stans
1 1 (1.75%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 19 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (3.51%) Postfix
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (40.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.51%) Grafana
2 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.75%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) SAP
2 4 (7.02%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (7.02%) Oracle
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.51%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.75%) Virgin Media