Hybrid/Remote Fire and Rescue Contract Job Trends

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 3 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 329 428
Rank change year-on-year +21 +99 +171
Contract jobs citing Fire and Rescue 8 4 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.082% 0.032% 0.024%
As % of the General category 0.13% 0.053% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £250
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.44%
UK median daily rate £575 £308 £180
% change year-on-year +86.99% +70.83% -57.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.74 -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £20.74 -
% change year-on-year +15.72% - -

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 6,175 7,480 12,251
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 63.54% 58.97% 58.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,044 4,739 8,538
10th Percentile £325 £318 £350
25th Percentile £411 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £788 £794 £773
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 250 286
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.46 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.35 £27.18 £25.71
Median hourly rate £35.89 £43.00 £41.90
Median % change year-on-year -16.53% +2.63% -6.89%
75th Percentile £63.58 £58.75 £62.34
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -31.10% +32.73% +11.40%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Fire and Rescue.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Fire and Rescue

Fire and Rescue
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Fire and Rescue.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Fire and Rescue

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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) 4G
2 1 (12.50%) 5G
2 1 (12.50%) LTE
2 1 (12.50%) PPP
2 1 (12.50%) TETRA
General
1 8 (100.00%) Police
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
3 4 (50.00%) Military
3 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Aviation
4 2 (25.00%) Swedish Language
5 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (12.50%) French Language
5 1 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Head of Mobile
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (25.00%) Robotics
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) SIEM
4 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Digital Forensics
4 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Register
4 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (25.00%) SOAR
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) CISSP
4 1 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
4 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Ribbon
1 2 (25.00%) Tenable
2 1 (12.50%) VMware