Fire and Rescue Contracts in England

Fire and Rescue
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fire and Rescue in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fire and Rescue over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 511 632
Rank change year-on-year +40 +121 +138
Contract jobs citing Fire and Rescue 14 31 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.083% 0.042%
As % of the General category 0.090% 0.14% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 4
10th Percentile - £240 £282
25th Percentile - £301 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -25.58% +19.44%
75th Percentile - £438 £697
90th Percentile - - £714
UK median daily rate - £400 £395
% change year-on-year - +1.27% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £15.07 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.54 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £25.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.63% - -
75th Percentile £17.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £25.25 -
% change year-on-year -36.63% - -

All General Skills
England

Fire and Rescue falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,588 21,714 29,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.38% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,124 13,995 20,957
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 1,789 975
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Fire and Rescue
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Fire and Rescue as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Fire and Rescue in England

Fire and Rescue
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fire and Rescue in England.

Daily rate trend for Fire and Rescue in England

Fire and Rescue
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fire and Rescue in England.

Hourly rate trend for Fire and Rescue in England

Fire and Rescue
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fire and Rescue within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South West +49 7 - - 4
London +32 2 - - 17
North of England +15 2 - - 10
Yorkshire +8 2 - - 6
South East +46 1 - - 5
East of England +30 1 - - 1
Fire and Rescue
UK

Fire and Rescue
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
1 1 (7.14%) SaaS
1 1 (7.14%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
General
1 12 (85.71%) Police
2 11 (78.57%) Public Sector
3 10 (71.43%) Finance
4 7 (50.00%) Military
5 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
6 2 (14.29%) Aviation
6 2 (14.29%) Swedish Language
7 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 2 (14.29%) IT Services Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Service Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Author
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Field Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Field Service Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Author
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (14.29%) Robotics
2 1 (7.14%) CCTV
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Project Management
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Security Operations
2 3 (21.43%) SIEM
2 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (14.29%) Business Case
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) SOAR
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
3 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) CISSP
4 1 (7.14%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) FortiGate
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Foundry
1 2 (14.29%) Ribbon
1 2 (14.29%) Tenable