Fire and Rescue Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Fire and Rescue
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fire and Rescue in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 299 341 466
Rank change year-on-year +42 +125 +163
Contract jobs citing Fire and Rescue 5 4 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.026% 0.043%
As % of the General category 0.081% 0.044% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £430
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -31.91% +6.82%
75th Percentile - - £697
90th Percentile - - £714
UK median daily rate - £400 £395
% change year-on-year - +1.27% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £14.30 -
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £25.25 -
% change year-on-year -36.63% - -

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,176 9,033 15,091
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.35% 58.87% 58.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,155 5,908 10,633
10th Percentile £325 £331 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 477 347
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.03 £19.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.61 £29.31
Median hourly rate £32.05 £38.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% -23.76% +61.29%
75th Percentile £64.69 £53.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.93 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Fire and Rescue
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Fire and Rescue as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Fire and Rescue trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Fire and Rescue
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Fire and Rescue.

Fire and Rescue daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Fire and Rescue
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Fire and Rescue.

Fire and Rescue hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Fire and Rescue
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 5 (100.00%) Police
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (40.00%) Aviation
4 2 (40.00%) Swedish Language
5 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (20.00%) Legal
5 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Robotics
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Project Management
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) SOAR
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Ribbon
1 2 (40.00%) Tenable