SC Cleared Java Developer Job Trends

Security Check Clearance Java Developer
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Java Developer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 669 - 744
Rank change year-on-year - - +427
Permanent jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 2 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.004% - 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% - 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile - - £49,250
25th Percentile - - £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £70,000
75th Percentile - - £75,000
90th Percentile - - £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 - £80,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 43,999 66,430 54,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.87% 95.35% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 25,900 38,038 41,924
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,390 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.22% -4.76% -

SC Cleared Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'SC Cleared Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

SC Cleared Java Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for SC Cleared Java Developer job vacancies in the UK

SC Cleared Java Developer
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared Java Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
West Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
England - 2 £75,000 - 3
UK excluding London - 2 £75,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, SC Cleared Java Developer 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 permanent job ads featuring SC Cleared Java Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DbUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) jMock
1 2 (100.00%) JPA

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 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (100.00%) DbUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) jMock
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) PowerMock
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (100.00%) Jaspersoft