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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 379 421
Rank change year-on-year +62 +42 +78
Contract jobs citing Fire and Rescue 13 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.079% 0.065%
As % of the General category 0.16% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile - - £156
25th Percentile - £240 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £308 £390
Median % change year-on-year -34.96% -21.15% +11.43%
75th Percentile - £384 -
90th Percentile - £394 £569
UK median daily rate £200 £400 £390
% change year-on-year -50.00% +2.56% +4.00%
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 7,991 11,015 12,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.50% 54.40% 56.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,914 6,295 8,811
10th Percentile £209 £207 £230
25th Percentile £360 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 1,648 748
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £13.38
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.00 £15.74
Median hourly rate £24.50 £28.13 £28.58
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% -1.59% +48.47%
75th Percentile £54.75 £53.75 £60.64
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.82 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +44.44%

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 22 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 +38 7 - - 5
South East - 3 £200 - 5
North of England +14 2 - - 10
Yorkshire +9 2 - - 4
East of England +26 1 - - 4
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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) VoIP
General
1 11 (84.62%) Police
2 8 (61.54%) Public Sector
3 7 (53.85%) Finance
3 7 (53.85%) Military
4 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Aviation
5 2 (15.38%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Author
2 1 (7.69%) Coordinator
2 1 (7.69%) Field Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Field Service Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
2 1 (7.69%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Product Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Service Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Technical Author
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Handset
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Robotics
2 1 (7.69%) CCTV
2 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Project Management
2 3 (23.08%) Security Operations
3 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (15.38%) Business Case
3 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
3 2 (15.38%) SIEM
3 2 (15.38%) SOAR
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Threat Detection
3 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.69%) Email Management
4 1 (7.69%) Logistics
4 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.69%) Server Building
4 1 (7.69%) Service Catalogue
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) FortiGate
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Ribbon
1 2 (15.38%) Tenable
2 1 (7.69%) Foundry
2 1 (7.69%) VMware