Fire and Rescue Jobs 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 permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Fire and Rescue over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 619 703
Rank change year-on-year +56 +84 +3
Permanent jobs citing Fire and Rescue 10 140 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.20% 0.078%
As % of the General category 0.039% 0.34% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6 133 38
10th Percentile £37,997 £34,023 £26,076
25th Percentile £39,926 £36,365 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,008 £45,000 £42,177
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +6.69% +4.26%
75th Percentile £54,552 £50,000 £53,923
90th Percentile £55,217 £53,337 £57,851
UK median annual salary £40,197 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.67% -5.26% +10.47%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,871 40,733 41,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 66.20% 57.38% 68.60%
Number of salaries quoted 12,216 26,455 18,729
10th Percentile £25,313 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £81,250
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 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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Fire and Rescue in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Fire and Rescue in the UK excluding London

Fire and Rescue
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fire and Rescue in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Fire and Rescue in the UK excluding London

Fire and Rescue
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +90 6 £40,197 +0.82% 6
South West +23 4 £53,051 +17.89% 6
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 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) IPsec
1 1 (10.00%) SSH
1 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 7 (70.00%) Local Government
2 4 (40.00%) Police
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) ICT Trainer
1 6 (60.00%) Trainer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Product Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) DBA
3 1 (10.00%) PMO Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Portfolio Management Officer
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (10.00%) Solaris
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Culture Change
2 4 (40.00%) Line Management
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Product Management
3 2 (20.00%) Release Management
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Robotic Process Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Process Management
4 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) DBS Check
1 6 (60.00%) HNC
1 6 (60.00%) HND
1 6 (60.00%) MOS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) LXC
1 1 (10.00%) Samba
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle