SC Cleared Java Developer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Security Check Clearance Java Developer
England > North of England

The median Security Check Clearance Java Developer daily rate in the North of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 156 182
Rank change year-on-year -51 +26 +26
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 7 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.14% 0.27% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.29% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 9
10th Percentile - £425 £495
25th Percentile £400 £430 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -16.67% -27.59%
75th Percentile £575 £450 £538
90th Percentile £650 £473 £550
England median daily rate £525 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -8.70% +21.05% -17.03%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,589 3,088 4,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 92.37% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,025 1,822 3,054
10th Percentile £213 £232 £263
25th Percentile £367 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £468 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -3.95% -2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £585
90th Percentile £650 £656 £672
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 139 352
10th Percentile £15.80 £15.22 £11.77
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.72 £13.50
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.13 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year +54.62% +29.88% -16.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.25 £57.33
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.64% +2.71%

SC Cleared Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 the North of England.

SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancy trend in the North of England

SC Cleared Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancies in the North of England

SC Cleared Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Java Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Java Developer in the North of England

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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
Yorkshire -60 5 £488 +11.43%
North West - 2 £500 -
SC Cleared Java Developer
England

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 2 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 North of England region featuring SC Cleared Java Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) Linux
3 5 (71.43%) Mac OS X
3 5 (71.43%) Unix
4 4 (57.14%) BDD
4 4 (57.14%) TDD
4 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
5 3 (42.86%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (42.86%) DevOps
6 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (28.57%) AWS
6 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (28.57%) Azure
6 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 2 (28.57%) JAX-RS
6 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
6 2 (28.57%) Kafka
6 2 (28.57%) Mockito
6 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
6 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
6 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (28.57%) REST
6 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
6 2 (28.57%) Serverless
6 2 (28.57%) Spring
6 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) Mockito
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Mocha
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (28.57%) JAX-RS
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) REST
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 1 (14.29%) J2EE
2 1 (14.29%) Jest
2 1 (14.29%) JPA
2 1 (14.29%) JWT
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Mac OS X
1 5 (71.43%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) BDD
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
5 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
5 2 (28.57%) Web Design
5 2 (28.57%) Web Development
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle