Fire and Rescue Contracts

Fire and Rescue
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fire and Rescue in contract job vacancies. 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 506 551 693
Rank change year-on-year +45 +142 +150
Contract jobs citing Fire and Rescue 14 31 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.071% 0.042%
As % of the General category 0.076% 0.12% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 8
10th Percentile - £240 £342
25th Percentile - £301 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 £395
Median % change year-on-year - +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile - £438 £547
90th Percentile - - £699
UK excluding London median daily rate - £308 £390
% change year-on-year - -21.15% +30.00%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £25.25 -
% change year-on-year -36.63% - -

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,479 25,363 34,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.12% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,802 16,004 24,197
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,943 1,063
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.78 £13.43
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%
75th Percentile £56.00 £52.20 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £28.42 £30.54
% change year-on-year -13.05% -6.94% +65.08%

Fire and Rescue
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Fire and Rescue in the UK

Fire and Rescue
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Fire and Rescue in the UK

Fire and Rescue
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Fire and Rescue in the UK

Fire and Rescue
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 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
England +40 14 - - 53
UK excluding London +56 11 - - 40
South West +49 7 - - 4
Work from Home +42 5 - - 13
London +32 2 - - 16
North of England +15 2 - - 11
Yorkshire +8 2 - - 5
South East +46 1 - - 5
East of England +30 1 - - 1

Fire and Rescue
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 (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