SC Cleared Java Developer Contract Job Trends

Security Check Clearance Java Developer
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 483 565
Rank change year-on-year -72 +82 +73
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 27 60 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.17% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.18% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 55 31
10th Percentile £400 £421 -
25th Percentile £450 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -20.00%
75th Percentile £578 £588 £499
90th Percentile £618 £654 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +2.63% -4.52% -17.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

SC Cleared Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

SC Cleared Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancies 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 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Java Developer in the UK

SC Cleared Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancies in the UK

SC Cleared Java Developer
Top 10 Contract Job 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 13 December 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 -69 20 £525 -
Work from Home -3 10 £525 -0.38%
London -23 9 £525 -
UK excluding London -57 8 £488 +2.63%
North of England -50 6 £488 +8.33%
Yorkshire -51 5 £488 +8.33%
Midlands - 1 £500 -
North West - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £475 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 -

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 featuring SC Cleared Java Developer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Java
1 27 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 27 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (51.85%) AWS
2 14 (51.85%) Microservices
3 12 (44.44%) Spring
3 12 (44.44%) Spring Boot
4 10 (37.04%) Agile
5 9 (33.33%) Kafka
6 8 (29.63%) Azure
7 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
7 6 (22.22%) Linux
7 6 (22.22%) Mac OS X
7 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 6 (22.22%) Unix
8 5 (18.52%) BDD
8 5 (18.52%) Docker
8 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
8 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
8 5 (18.52%) TDD
9 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
9 4 (14.81%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (14.81%) DevOps
9 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (14.81%) Git
9 4 (14.81%) GitLab
9 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
9 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (14.81%) React

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 14 (51.85%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
2 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.11%) MySQL
3 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
1 4 (14.81%) GitLab
1 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.11%) Mockito
3 1 (3.70%) JMeter
3 1 (3.70%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Maven
3 1 (3.70%) Mocha
General
1 15 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (7.41%) Law
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) Spring
1 12 (44.44%) Spring Boot
2 9 (33.33%) Kafka
3 4 (14.81%) React
3 4 (14.81%) REST
3 4 (14.81%) RESTful
4 3 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (11.11%) Hibernate
4 3 (11.11%) JAX-RS
4 3 (11.11%) JPA
4 3 (11.11%) JSON
5 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.41%) Node.js
5 2 (7.41%) XML
6 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.70%) J2EE
6 1 (3.70%) Jest
6 1 (3.70%) JWT
6 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
1 6 (22.22%) Mac OS X
1 6 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Microservices
2 10 (37.04%) Agile
3 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 5 (18.52%) BDD
4 5 (18.52%) TDD
5 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.81%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.11%) Clean Code
6 3 (11.11%) Code Quality
6 3 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
6 3 (11.11%) Web Design
6 3 (11.11%) Web Development
7 2 (7.41%) API Integration
7 2 (7.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (7.41%) High Availability
7 2 (7.41%) Integration Testing
7 2 (7.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 27 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) OCP
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Virgin Media