SC Cleared Java Developer Jobs

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 6 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 730 886 894
Rank change year-on-year +156 +8 +390
Permanent jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 3 17 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.016% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.017% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 15
10th Percentile - £72,500 £53,000
25th Percentile - £81,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +26.92% -
75th Percentile - £83,750 £71,250
90th Percentile - - £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 53,646 100,958 81,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.91% 94.82% 91.25%
Number of salaries quoted 29,258 71,135 54,610
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,573 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.74%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared Java Developer in the UK

SC Cleared Java Developer
Top 5 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 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +138 3 £75,000 -9.09% 10
UK excluding London +173 2 £75,000 -9.09% 1
Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
West Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
London +98 1 - - 7

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

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

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) JPA
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB

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 1 (33.33%) Alfresco
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (66.67%) DbUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) jMock
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Mockito
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) JPA
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (66.67%) Bootstrap
2 2 (66.67%) PowerMock
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Batch
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) GitOps
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Postfix
3 1 (33.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian
1 2 (66.67%) Jaspersoft