SC Cleared Java Developer Contracts in London

Security Check Clearance Java Developer
England > London

The median Security Check Clearance Java Developer daily rate in London is £550, 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 312 355 441
Rank change year-on-year +43 +86 +127
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 41 36 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.22% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 33 41
10th Percentile £428 £413 £470
25th Percentile £515 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £613
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -24.49% +22.50%
75th Percentile £585 £501 £725
90th Percentile - £570 £758
England median daily rate £530 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +8.72% -11.36% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

SC Cleared Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in London

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in London

SC Cleared Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Java Developer in London

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +19 17 £585 +19.94%
South London 0 1 £473 -1.56%
SC Cleared Java Developer
England

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

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 London region featuring SC Cleared Java Developer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Java
1 41 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 41 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (87.80%) Spring Boot
3 33 (80.49%) Microservices
3 33 (80.49%) Spring
3 33 (80.49%) SQL
4 29 (70.73%) Public Sector
5 27 (65.85%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (63.41%) Agile
6 26 (63.41%) Kafka
7 24 (58.54%) DevOps
8 23 (56.10%) AWS
8 23 (56.10%) Clean Code
8 23 (56.10%) React
9 22 (53.66%) Kubernetes
10 21 (51.22%) MongoDB
11 17 (41.46%) API Development
11 17 (41.46%) JavaScript
12 16 (39.02%) SOLID
12 16 (39.02%) NoSQL
12 16 (39.02%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (31.71%) JUnit
13 13 (31.71%) Git
14 12 (29.27%) Relational Database
15 11 (26.83%) TDD
16 10 (24.39%) Swagger
16 10 (24.39%) OpenAPI
17 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
17 9 (21.95%) Docker

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (7.32%) JBoss
1 3 (7.32%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.88%) Camunda
3 1 (2.44%) Alfresco
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (56.10%) AWS
2 1 (2.44%) Azure
2 1 (2.44%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (65.85%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (51.22%) MongoDB
3 16 (39.02%) NoSQL
4 12 (29.27%) Relational Database
5 4 (9.76%) MySQL
6 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (7.32%) Neo4j
7 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.44%) GIS
7 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) Git
1 13 (31.71%) JUnit
2 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
2 8 (19.51%) Maven
3 6 (14.63%) GitLab
3 6 (14.63%) Gradle
3 6 (14.63%) Liquibase
3 6 (14.63%) Mockito
4 4 (9.76%) JIRA
5 3 (7.32%) Selenium
5 3 (7.32%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.44%) Jasmine
General
1 29 (70.73%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.63%) Electronics
2 6 (14.63%) Finance
2 6 (14.63%) Manufacturing
2 6 (14.63%) Marketing
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (87.80%) Spring Boot
2 33 (80.49%) Spring
3 26 (63.41%) Kafka
4 23 (56.10%) React
5 10 (24.39%) OpenAPI
5 10 (24.39%) Swagger
6 6 (14.63%) AngularJS
7 4 (9.76%) JSP
7 4 (9.76%) Struts
8 3 (7.32%) LDAP
8 3 (7.32%) REST
9 2 (4.88%) Guice
9 2 (4.88%) Hibernate
9 2 (4.88%) HTML
9 2 (4.88%) Java EE
9 2 (4.88%) RESTful
9 2 (4.88%) XML
10 1 (2.44%) Java SE
10 1 (2.44%) JSON
10 1 (2.44%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) PKI
2 1 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Windows
2 3 (7.32%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (80.49%) Microservices
2 26 (63.41%) Agile
3 24 (58.54%) DevOps
4 23 (56.10%) Clean Code
5 17 (41.46%) API Development
6 16 (39.02%) SOLID
7 11 (26.83%) TDD
8 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
9 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
10 7 (17.07%) Build Automation
10 7 (17.07%) Migration
10 7 (17.07%) Software Engineering
11 6 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (14.63%) Digital Marketing
11 6 (14.63%) Event-Driven
11 6 (14.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (14.63%) Programme Management
12 5 (12.20%) Scrum
13 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
14 3 (7.32%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (80.49%) SQL
3 17 (41.46%) JavaScript
4 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.32%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.44%) Bash
6 1 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 41 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 41 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (39.02%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.44%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) OCP
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Docker
2 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (53.66%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) SAP
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Virgin Media