SC Cleared Java Developer Contracts

Security Check Clearance Java Developer
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £480 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 576 725
Rank change year-on-year +63 +149 -158
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Java Developer 63 108 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 79 78
10th Percentile £413 £438 £413
25th Percentile £453 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +2.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £697 £584
90th Percentile £688 £738 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £515
% change year-on-year +2.44% -0.49% +11.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £68.93 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £71.25 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £73.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +22.92% +3.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £62.44
90th Percentile - - £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £72.50 £61.63
% change year-on-year -6.90% +17.65% +6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 16 May 2024.

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 10 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 16 May 2024. 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 +72 56 £480 -12.73% 2
London +91 37 £463 -21.28% 1
Work from Home +107 20 £525 -4.55% 1
UK excluding London +32 18 £525 +2.44% 1
North of England +27 12 £525 -6.67%
North West +27 10 £525 +7.69%
South East -3 4 £675 +33.00%
South West +7 2 £68 -87.73% 1
Yorkshire +14 1 £550 -4.35%
North East +4 1 £501 -21.49%

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 63 (100.00%) Java
1 63 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 63 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 49 (77.78%) AWS
3 27 (42.86%) Spring
4 26 (41.27%) Spring Boot
5 25 (39.68%) REST
6 24 (38.10%) Agile
7 21 (33.33%) Docker
7 21 (33.33%) Microservices
8 20 (31.75%) Jenkins
9 17 (26.98%) Kubernetes
10 16 (25.40%) CI/CD
11 14 (22.22%) Full Stack Development
11 14 (22.22%) Public Sector
12 12 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (17.46%) Serverless
13 11 (17.46%) Hibernate
14 10 (15.87%) SQL
14 10 (15.87%) Kafka
14 10 (15.87%) Front End Development
14 10 (15.87%) Terraform
15 9 (14.29%) Observability
15 9 (14.29%) JPA
15 9 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (14.29%) TDD
15 9 (14.29%) Spring Security
16 8 (12.70%) Apache
16 8 (12.70%) Selenium
16 8 (12.70%) Cucumber

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 8 (12.70%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) JBoss
2 1 (1.59%) nginx
2 1 (1.59%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.59%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 49 (77.78%) AWS
2 12 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (17.46%) Serverless
4 7 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
4 7 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (9.52%) OpenShift
6 5 (7.94%) Azure
7 4 (6.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.76%) GitHub
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.17%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (3.17%) AWS KMS
9 2 (3.17%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (1.59%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.11%) Flink
3 3 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.17%) MySQL
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (3.17%) Redis
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (31.75%) Jenkins
2 8 (12.70%) Cucumber
2 8 (12.70%) Selenium
3 6 (9.52%) JIRA
4 5 (7.94%) JUnit
4 5 (7.94%) Maven
4 5 (7.94%) SonarQube
5 4 (6.35%) Git
5 4 (6.35%) Mockito
5 4 (6.35%) REST Assured
5 4 (6.35%) TestNG
6 3 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.76%) EasyMock
6 3 (4.76%) GitLab
7 1 (1.59%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.59%) Postman
General
1 14 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (7.94%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.35%) Law
4 3 (4.76%) Police
5 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (42.86%) Spring
2 26 (41.27%) Spring Boot
3 25 (39.68%) REST
4 11 (17.46%) Hibernate
5 10 (15.87%) Kafka
6 9 (14.29%) JPA
6 9 (14.29%) Spring Security
7 5 (7.94%) CSS
7 5 (7.94%) HTML
7 5 (7.94%) Node.js
8 4 (6.35%) Java EE
8 4 (6.35%) JAX-RS
8 4 (6.35%) React
8 4 (6.35%) WireMock
9 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.76%) ARM Templates
9 3 (4.76%) Keycloak
9 3 (4.76%) Web Services
10 2 (3.17%) Express.js
10 2 (3.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.10%) Agile
2 21 (33.33%) Microservices
3 16 (25.40%) CI/CD
4 14 (22.22%) Full Stack Development
5 10 (15.87%) Front End Development
6 9 (14.29%) Observability
6 9 (14.29%) TDD
7 8 (12.70%) DevOps
7 8 (12.70%) IT Strategy
7 8 (12.70%) Technology Strategy
8 7 (11.11%) Scrum
8 7 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 7 (11.11%) Test Automation
9 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (7.94%) Containerisation
10 5 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (6.35%) BDD
11 4 (6.35%) Decision-Making
11 4 (6.35%) Software Architecture
11 4 (6.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 63 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (15.87%) SQL
3 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.76%) Python
5 2 (3.17%) C++
5 2 (3.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 63 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 63 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.17%) MISRA
1 2 (3.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (26.98%) Kubernetes
2 10 (15.87%) Terraform
3 6 (9.52%) Ansible
4 4 (6.35%) Grafana
5 3 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (4.76%) Podman
6 2 (3.17%) Kibana
7 1 (1.59%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (3.17%) Google
1 2 (3.17%) Oracle
1 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
1 2 (3.17%) Splunk
2 1 (1.59%) WSO2