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 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 449 520 599
Rank change year-on-year +71 +79 +123
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 71 62 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.15% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 59 84
10th Percentile £406 £413 £451
25th Percentile £458 £453 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -12.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £725
90th Percentile £585 £688 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £68.93
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £73.75
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.83%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

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 May 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 12 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 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
England +61 57 £530 +8.72% 2
London +43 41 £550 +18.92% 2
UK excluding London +67 20 £500 -4.76% 1
Work from Home +30 11 £550 +4.76%
North of England +15 8 £530 +0.95%
North West +13 6 £530 +0.95%
Scotland - 4 £413 -
South East +45 3 £569 -15.74% 1
Midlands - 3 £420 -
West Midlands - 3 £420 -
Yorkshire +9 2 £438 -20.45%
South West - 2 £625 -

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

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 featuring SC Cleared Java Developer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) Java
1 71 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 71 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 57 (80.28%) Spring Boot
3 55 (77.46%) Microservices
4 54 (76.06%) Spring
5 50 (70.42%) SQL
6 47 (66.20%) Agile
6 47 (66.20%) Public Sector
7 44 (61.97%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (59.15%) Kafka
9 39 (54.93%) React
10 36 (50.70%) DevOps
11 33 (46.48%) Clean Code
11 33 (46.48%) AWS
12 31 (43.66%) MongoDB
12 31 (43.66%) TDD
13 27 (38.03%) Kubernetes
14 24 (33.80%) JUnit
15 23 (32.39%) JavaScript
16 21 (29.58%) API Development
17 20 (28.17%) SOLID
17 20 (28.17%) Relational Database
17 20 (28.17%) Docker
17 20 (28.17%) NoSQL
18 19 (26.76%) Jenkins
19 18 (25.35%) Containerisation
20 17 (23.94%) Swagger
21 16 (22.54%) AWS Certified Developer
21 16 (22.54%) OpenAPI

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 (4.23%) JBoss
1 3 (4.23%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.82%) Camunda
2 2 (2.82%) Confluence
3 1 (1.41%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.41%) Apache
3 1 (1.41%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.41%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 33 (46.48%) AWS
2 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
2 2 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (2.82%) AWS KMS
2 2 (2.82%) Azure
2 2 (2.82%) Route 53
2 2 (2.82%) Slack
3 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (61.97%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (43.66%) MongoDB
3 20 (28.17%) NoSQL
3 20 (28.17%) Relational Database
4 6 (8.45%) MySQL
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.23%) Neo4j
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.82%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.41%) GIS
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (33.80%) JUnit
2 19 (26.76%) Jenkins
3 16 (22.54%) Git
4 14 (19.72%) Mockito
5 13 (18.31%) Maven
6 12 (16.90%) GitLab
6 12 (16.90%) Gradle
6 12 (16.90%) Liquibase
7 5 (7.04%) JIRA
7 5 (7.04%) SonarQube
8 4 (5.63%) Selenium
9 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (2.82%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.82%) DbUnit
9 2 (2.82%) Jasmine
9 2 (2.82%) jMock
10 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (66.20%) Public Sector
2 11 (15.49%) Electronics
2 11 (15.49%) Finance
2 11 (15.49%) Manufacturing
2 11 (15.49%) Marketing
2 11 (15.49%) Telecoms
3 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (80.28%) Spring Boot
2 54 (76.06%) Spring
3 42 (59.15%) Kafka
4 39 (54.93%) React
5 17 (23.94%) Swagger
6 16 (22.54%) OpenAPI
7 12 (16.90%) AngularJS
7 12 (16.90%) REST
8 7 (9.86%) Hibernate
8 7 (9.86%) Web Services
9 6 (8.45%) RESTful
10 5 (7.04%) SOAP
10 5 (7.04%) Spring Batch
10 5 (7.04%) Struts
11 4 (5.63%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (5.63%) JPA
11 4 (5.63%) JSP
11 4 (5.63%) Node.js
11 4 (5.63%) Spring Integration
11 4 (5.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (2.82%) PKI
1 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.45%) Linux
2 4 (5.63%) Windows
3 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (77.46%) Microservices
2 47 (66.20%) Agile
3 36 (50.70%) DevOps
4 33 (46.48%) Clean Code
5 31 (43.66%) TDD
6 21 (29.58%) API Development
7 20 (28.17%) SOLID
8 18 (25.35%) Containerisation
9 16 (22.54%) CI/CD
9 16 (22.54%) Software Engineering
10 13 (18.31%) Migration
11 12 (16.90%) Build Automation
12 11 (15.49%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (15.49%) Digital Marketing
12 11 (15.49%) Event-Driven
12 11 (15.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (15.49%) Programme Management
13 9 (12.68%) Scrum
14 8 (11.27%) Full-Stack Development
15 7 (9.86%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) Java
2 50 (70.42%) SQL
3 23 (32.39%) JavaScript
4 12 (16.90%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.23%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.82%) Bash
7 1 (1.41%) Ada
7 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.41%) Python
7 1 (1.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 71 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 71 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.54%) AWS Certified Developer
3 5 (7.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.63%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.82%) OCP
5 2 (2.82%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.82%) Sun Certification
6 1 (1.41%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) Def Stans
1 1 (1.41%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 20 (28.17%) Docker
2 4 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.82%) Postfix
4 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (38.03%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.82%) Grafana
2 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (21.13%) SAP
2 8 (11.27%) Oracle
3 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.63%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (5.63%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.82%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.41%) Virgin Media