SC Cleared Java Developer Contracts in the South East

Security Check Clearance Java Developer
England > South East

The median Security Check Clearance Java Developer daily rate in the South East is £569, 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 156 201 204
Rank change year-on-year +45 +3 +40
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 3 4 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.100% 0.072% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.078% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile £512 £575 £368
25th Percentile £530 £631 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £688 £572
90th Percentile £641 - £579
England median daily rate £530 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +8.72% -11.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.00
25th Percentile - - £73.13
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
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 the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in the South East

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in the South East

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in the South East

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Surrey - 2 £638 -
Thames Valley +40 1 £500 -25.93%
Berkshire +28 1 £500 -25.93%
SC Cleared Java Developer
England

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring SC Cleared Java Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) React
3 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Postfix
3 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Solr
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (33.33%) DbUnit
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) jMock
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Mockito
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) Bootstrap
3 1 (33.33%) Java SE
3 1 (33.33%) JAX-RS
3 1 (33.33%) JAX-WS
3 1 (33.33%) PowerMock
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Batch
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) BPEL
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Situational Awareness
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) OCP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (33.33%) Jaspersoft