SC Cleared Java Developer Contracts

Security Check Clearance Java Developer
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 537 600
Rank change year-on-year +63 +63 +156
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 62 54 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 49 60
10th Percentile £410 £410 £447
25th Percentile £458 £425 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -2.20% -2.62%
75th Percentile £568 £575 £658
90th Percentile £585 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £69.35
25th Percentile - £66.25 £70.31
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -6.90% +20.83%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -6.90% +17.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 28,350 40,134 52,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.98% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,122 25,769 36,623
10th Percentile £288 £282 £313
25th Percentile £401 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,269 2,866 1,533
10th Percentile £13.77 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +69.37%
75th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

SC Cleared Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in the UK

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in the UK

SC Cleared Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Java Developer in the UK

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in the UK

SC Cleared Java Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 July 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
England +63 51 £530 +6.00% 16
London +45 33 £550 +18.92% 11
UK excluding London +45 21 £500 -6.98% 5
Work from Home +44 18 £550 - 8
West Midlands - 8 £500 -
Midlands - 8 £500 -
North of England +9 7 £530 +0.95%
North West +9 6 £530 +0.95%
Scotland - 4 £413 -
South East +51 2 £500 -25.93% 2
Yorkshire +1 1 £438 -20.45%

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 featuring SC Cleared Java Developer in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) Java
1 62 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 62 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 51 (82.26%) Spring Boot
3 49 (79.03%) Spring
4 47 (75.81%) Microservices
5 41 (66.13%) Agile
6 40 (64.52%) SQL
6 40 (64.52%) Public Sector
7 35 (56.45%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (53.23%) Kafka
9 32 (51.61%) DevOps
10 31 (50.00%) TDD
11 29 (46.77%) React
11 29 (46.77%) AWS
12 25 (40.32%) JUnit
13 24 (38.71%) Clean Code
14 23 (37.10%) Docker
14 23 (37.10%) Jenkins
15 20 (32.26%) Containerisation
16 19 (30.65%) MongoDB
17 18 (29.03%) Relational Database
17 18 (29.03%) Kubernetes
18 17 (27.42%) Mockito
19 16 (25.81%) Git
19 16 (25.81%) CI/CD
20 15 (24.19%) OpenAPI
20 15 (24.19%) Swagger
21 14 (22.58%) AngularJS
21 14 (22.58%) REST

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.84%) JBoss
1 3 (4.84%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.23%) Camunda
3 1 (1.61%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.77%) AWS
2 5 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (8.06%) Amazon S3
2 5 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (8.06%) AWS KMS
2 5 (8.06%) Route 53
3 3 (4.84%) Azure
4 1 (1.61%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (56.45%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (30.65%) MongoDB
3 18 (29.03%) Relational Database
4 12 (19.35%) NoSQL
5 7 (11.29%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (8.06%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (8.06%) DynamoDB
7 3 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (4.84%) MySQL
7 3 (4.84%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.61%) GIS
8 1 (1.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (40.32%) JUnit
2 23 (37.10%) Jenkins
3 17 (27.42%) Mockito
4 16 (25.81%) Git
5 14 (22.58%) Maven
6 13 (20.97%) GitLab
7 12 (19.35%) Gradle
7 12 (19.35%) Liquibase
8 8 (12.90%) SonarQube
9 5 (8.06%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (8.06%) DbUnit
9 5 (8.06%) jMock
10 3 (4.84%) JIRA
10 3 (4.84%) Selenium
11 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 40 (64.52%) Public Sector
2 11 (17.74%) Electronics
2 11 (17.74%) Finance
2 11 (17.74%) Manufacturing
2 11 (17.74%) Marketing
2 11 (17.74%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.06%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (82.26%) Spring Boot
2 49 (79.03%) Spring
3 33 (53.23%) Kafka
4 29 (46.77%) React
5 15 (24.19%) OpenAPI
5 15 (24.19%) Swagger
6 14 (22.58%) AngularJS
6 14 (22.58%) REST
7 8 (12.90%) Hibernate
7 8 (12.90%) Web Services
8 7 (11.29%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (11.29%) Bootstrap
8 7 (11.29%) JPA
8 7 (11.29%) SOAP
8 7 (11.29%) Spring Batch
8 7 (11.29%) Spring Integration
9 6 (9.68%) RESTful
10 5 (8.06%) Node.js
10 5 (8.06%) PowerMock
10 5 (8.06%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.23%) PKI
3 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.68%) Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Windows
2 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (75.81%) Microservices
2 41 (66.13%) Agile
3 32 (51.61%) DevOps
4 31 (50.00%) TDD
5 24 (38.71%) Clean Code
6 20 (32.26%) Containerisation
7 16 (25.81%) CI/CD
8 14 (22.58%) Software Engineering
9 12 (19.35%) API Development
9 12 (19.35%) Build Automation
9 12 (19.35%) Migration
9 12 (19.35%) Scrum
9 12 (19.35%) SOLID
10 11 (17.74%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (17.74%) Digital Marketing
10 11 (17.74%) Event-Driven
10 11 (17.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 11 (17.74%) Programme Management
11 9 (14.52%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (11.29%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 62 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (64.52%) SQL
3 13 (20.97%) JavaScript
4 12 (19.35%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.84%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 62 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 62 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.52%) AWS Certified Developer
3 3 (4.84%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.61%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) OCP
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.61%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 23 (37.10%) Docker
2 5 (8.06%) Postfix
3 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 18 (29.03%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.06%) Grafana
2 5 (8.06%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.61%) Istio
3 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) SAP
2 7 (11.29%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.06%) Atlassian
5 4 (6.45%) Oracle
6 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.23%) Virgin Media