SC Cleared Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Security Check Clearance Java Developer
England > Yorkshire

The median Security Check Clearance Java Developer daily rate in Yorkshire is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 71 -
Rank change year-on-year -61 - -
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 5 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.25% 0.86% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.93% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile - £425 -
25th Percentile £400 £428 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% - -
75th Percentile £606 £447 -
90th Percentile £663 £480 -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -8.70% +21.05% -17.39%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,805 859 1,743
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.37% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 515 1,090
10th Percentile £290 £211 £219
25th Percentile £400 £350 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.70% -11.06%
75th Percentile £550 £566 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 56
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.57 £11.15
25th Percentile £15.88 £16.87 £12.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £14.20
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% +70.25% -35.44%
75th Percentile £56.31 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £42.40 £53.75
England median hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.87% - -5.74%

SC Cleared Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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 in Yorkshire.

SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SC Cleared Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancies in Yorkshire

SC Cleared Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Java Developer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Java Developer in Yorkshire

SC Cleared Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 February 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -29 5 £488 +11.43% 1
SC Cleared Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 February 2026, 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 across the Yorkshire region featuring SC Cleared Java Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Mac OS X
2 4 (80.00%) Unix
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (40.00%) REST
4 2 (40.00%) Serverless
5 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (20.00%) API Development
5 1 (20.00%) Azure
5 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Docker
5 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development

SC Cleared Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Mocha
2 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) J2EE
2 1 (20.00%) JAX-RS
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) JPA
2 1 (20.00%) JWT
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Mac OS X
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) API Development
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
5 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 1 (20.00%) Web Design
5 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle