SC Cleared Java Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Check Clearance Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Check Clearance Java Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 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
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 386 402
Rank change year-on-year +62 +16 +63
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 21 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.084% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.091% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 17
10th Percentile £406 £470 £390
25th Percentile £410 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £600
90th Percentile - £688 £680
UK median daily rate £530 £501 £531
% change year-on-year +5.89% -5.66% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £68.70
25th Percentile - £66.25 £70.00
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -6.90% +17.65%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -6.90% +20.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 12,329 19,829 21,515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 92.44% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,725 11,772 14,915
10th Percentile £220 £213 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 951 2,566 1,099
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.66 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.99 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -3.61% +107.50%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.37 £75.69
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.80% -16.67% +76.47%

SC Cleared Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Midlands - 8 £500 - 1
West Midlands - 8 £500 - 1
North of England +9 7 £530 +0.95%
North West +11 6 £530 +0.95%
Scotland - 4 £413 - 2
South East +49 2 £500 -25.93% 7
Yorkshire +12 1 £438 -20.45%
SC Cleared Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring SC Cleared Java Developer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Java
1 21 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (85.71%) Spring
2 18 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 18 (85.71%) Public Sector
3 17 (80.95%) Agile
4 16 (76.19%) TDD
5 14 (66.67%) Microservices
6 13 (61.90%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (61.90%) SQL
6 13 (61.90%) Jenkins
7 12 (57.14%) JUnit
7 12 (57.14%) Docker
8 11 (52.38%) REST
9 10 (47.62%) Mockito
9 10 (47.62%) DevOps
9 10 (47.62%) React
9 10 (47.62%) Containerisation
10 9 (42.86%) AWS
10 9 (42.86%) AngularJS
11 8 (38.10%) Web Services
11 8 (38.10%) Hibernate
12 7 (33.33%) Scrum
12 7 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (33.33%) Maven
12 7 (33.33%) SOAP
12 7 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
12 7 (33.33%) Bootstrap
12 7 (33.33%) Spring Batch

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (23.81%) AWS KMS
2 5 (23.81%) Route 53
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (61.90%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (23.81%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (61.90%) Jenkins
2 12 (57.14%) JUnit
3 10 (47.62%) Mockito
4 7 (33.33%) Maven
5 6 (28.57%) Git
6 5 (23.81%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (23.81%) DbUnit
6 5 (23.81%) GitLab
6 5 (23.81%) Gradle
6 5 (23.81%) jMock
6 5 (23.81%) Liquibase
6 5 (23.81%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (85.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (23.81%) Electronics
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Manufacturing
2 5 (23.81%) Marketing
2 5 (23.81%) Telecoms
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (85.71%) Spring
1 18 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 11 (52.38%) REST
3 10 (47.62%) React
4 9 (42.86%) AngularJS
5 8 (38.10%) Hibernate
5 8 (38.10%) Web Services
6 7 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (33.33%) Bootstrap
6 7 (33.33%) JPA
6 7 (33.33%) SOAP
6 7 (33.33%) Spring Batch
6 7 (33.33%) Spring Integration
7 6 (28.57%) Kafka
7 6 (28.57%) RESTful
8 5 (23.81%) OpenAPI
8 5 (23.81%) PowerMock
8 5 (23.81%) Spring Cloud
8 5 (23.81%) Swagger
9 4 (19.05%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Agile
2 16 (76.19%) TDD
3 14 (66.67%) Microservices
4 10 (47.62%) Containerisation
4 10 (47.62%) DevOps
5 7 (33.33%) Scrum
6 6 (28.57%) BDD
6 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 6 (28.57%) Clean Code
6 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 5 (23.81%) Build Automation
7 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (23.81%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (23.81%) Event-Driven
7 5 (23.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (23.81%) Kanban
7 5 (23.81%) Migration
7 5 (23.81%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (61.90%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) OCP
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) Docker
2 5 (23.81%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Grafana
1 5 (23.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
2 5 (23.81%) Atlassian
2 5 (23.81%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle