SC Cleared Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Security Check Clearance Java Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Security Check Clearance Java Developer daily rate in Leeds is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 47 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 5 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.66% 1.69% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.79% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile - £425 -
25th Percentile £400 £428 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% - -
75th Percentile £606 £447 -
90th Percentile £663 £480 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £438 -
% change year-on-year +11.43% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 721 446 838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.88% 94.29% 93.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 271 547
10th Percentile £313 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £653 £688 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 19 13
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.24
25th Percentile £14.25 £19.50 £11.75
Median hourly rate £16.25 £24.18 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +92.98% -78.49%
75th Percentile £28.75 £38.75 £15.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £97.71 £20.62
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -30.91% +77.42% -54.11%

SC Cleared Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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 Leeds.

SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancy trend in Leeds

SC Cleared Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

SC Cleared Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Java Developer in Leeds over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Java Developer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 10 February 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 Leeds region featuring SC Cleared Java Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Mac OS X
2 4 (80.00%) Unix
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (40.00%) REST
4 2 (40.00%) Serverless
5 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (20.00%) API Development
5 1 (20.00%) Azure
5 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Docker
5 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Mocha
2 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) J2EE
2 1 (20.00%) JAX-RS
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) JPA
2 1 (20.00%) JWT
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Mac OS X
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) API Development
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
5 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 1 (20.00%) Web Design
5 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle