Fire and Rescue Contracts in the UK excluding London

Fire and Rescue
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fire and Rescue in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 325 381 443
Rank change year-on-year +56 +62 +61
Contract jobs citing Fire and Rescue 11 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.087% 0.079%
As % of the General category 0.14% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - - £295
25th Percentile - £240 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £308 £390
Median % change year-on-year - -21.15% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £384 -
90th Percentile - £394 £569
UK median daily rate - £400 £395
% change year-on-year - +1.27% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £13.65 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.87 -
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,944 11,365 13,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.23% 54.72% 56.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,914 6,491 9,285
10th Percentile £213 £205 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £597 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 1,652 782
10th Percentile £13.88 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £24.71 £28.42 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% -6.94% +65.08%
75th Percentile £55.76 £52.84 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £69.95
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Fire and Rescue as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Fire and Rescue in the UK excluding London

Fire and Rescue
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fire and Rescue in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Fire and Rescue in the UK excluding London

Fire and Rescue
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fire and Rescue in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Fire and Rescue in the UK excluding London

Fire and Rescue
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
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 the UK excluding London 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 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
General
1 9 (81.82%) Police
2 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
3 7 (63.64%) Finance
4 6 (54.55%) Military
5 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
6 2 (18.18%) Aviation
6 2 (18.18%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) IT Manager
2 2 (18.18%) IT Services Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Service Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Author
3 1 (9.09%) Coordinator
3 1 (9.09%) Field Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Field Service Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Author
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Robotics
2 1 (9.09%) CCTV
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) IoT
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Security Operations
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Business Case
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) ITSM
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
3 2 (18.18%) SIEM
3 2 (18.18%) SOAR
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection
3 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (9.09%) Change Advisory Board
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
4 1 (9.09%) Service Catalogue
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) FortiGate
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Foundry
1 2 (18.18%) Ribbon
1 2 (18.18%) Tenable