Fire and Rescue Jobs in England

Fire and Rescue
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fire and Rescue in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Fire and Rescue over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 659 679 878
Rank change year-on-year +20 +199 +141
Permanent jobs citing Fire and Rescue 24 163 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.050% 0.18% 0.049%
As % of the General category 0.071% 0.32% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 7 146 36
10th Percentile £33,241 £34,698 -
25th Percentile £36,159 £36,365 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,197 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -5.26% +7.84%
75th Percentile £47,823 £50,000 £55,859
90th Percentile £55,209 £55,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £40,197 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.67% -5.26% +10.47%

All General Skills
England

Fire and Rescue falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 33,807 51,595 59,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 69.89% 58.35% 67.96%
Number of salaries quoted 15,674 35,916 32,490
10th Percentile £27,575 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Fire and Rescue
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Fire and Rescue in England

Fire and Rescue
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Fire and Rescue in England.

Salary trend for Fire and Rescue in England

Fire and Rescue
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fire and Rescue in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Fire and Rescue in England

Fire and Rescue
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fire and Rescue within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +124 14 £29,000 -40.61% 26
South East +70 7 £40,197 +0.82% 37
South West +32 3 £54,282 +20.63% 19
Fire and Rescue
UK

Fire and Rescue
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (12.50%) nginx
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) GitHub
2 3 (12.50%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) LAN
1 4 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) IPsec
2 1 (4.17%) SSH
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Babel
1 3 (12.50%) Git
1 3 (12.50%) gulp
1 3 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 9 (37.50%) Police
2 7 (29.17%) Local Government
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) ICT Trainer
1 6 (25.00%) Trainer
2 5 (20.83%) Lead
3 4 (16.67%) Service Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Development Officer
4 3 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) CCTV Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (4.17%) PMO Officer
5 1 (4.17%) Portfolio Management Officer
5 1 (4.17%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) CSS
1 3 (12.50%) HTML
1 3 (12.50%) Node.js
1 3 (12.50%) OAuth
1 3 (12.50%) React
1 3 (12.50%) REST
1 3 (12.50%) Sass
1 3 (12.50%) Svelte
1 3 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 3 (12.50%) NHS
1 3 (12.50%) Smart City
2 1 (4.17%) CCTV
2 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.17%) Solaris
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (29.17%) Project Management
1 7 (29.17%) Roadmaps
2 6 (25.00%) Culture Change
2 6 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (25.00%) Line Management
3 5 (20.83%) ITIL
3 5 (20.83%) Service Delivery
4 4 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) Business Forecasting
4 4 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
5 3 (12.50%) Agile Project Management
5 3 (12.50%) Analytics
5 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (12.50%) Facilities Management
5 3 (12.50%) Information Governance
5 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.50%) R
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 6 (25.00%) HNC
1 6 (25.00%) HND
1 6 (25.00%) MOS
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) SLA
2 3 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
1 1 (4.17%) LXC
1 1 (4.17%) Samba
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Siemens
2 3 (12.50%) TOWER Software
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle