Fire and Rescue Jobs

Fire and Rescue
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fire and Rescue in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 664 747 941
Rank change year-on-year +83 +194 +100
Permanent jobs citing Fire and Rescue 28 149 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.15% 0.046%
As % of the General category 0.080% 0.25% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 9 142 39
10th Percentile £34,654 £35,000 £27,415
25th Percentile £39,926 £36,365 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,819 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -5.26% +7.01%
75th Percentile £55,178 £50,800 £55,859
90th Percentile £57,773 £55,000 £64,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,008 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.24% -5.26% +10.47%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,150 58,962 71,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.54% 59.87% 68.57%
Number of salaries quoted 18,382 39,636 38,356
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Fire and Rescue in the UK

Fire and Rescue
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fire and Rescue over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Fire and Rescue in the UK

Fire and Rescue
Top 6 Job Locations

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +55 25 £51,819 +15.15% 53
Work from Home +137 15 £46,008 +10.01% 12
London +117 14 £52,242 +6.99% 17
UK excluding London +83 11 £46,008 +2.24% 39
South East +100 7 £40,197 +0.82% 5
South West +25 4 £53,051 +17.89% 4

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 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) IIS
2 1 (3.57%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub
3 1 (3.57%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) LAN
1 3 (10.71%) WAN
2 1 (3.57%) DHCP
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) IPsec
2 1 (3.57%) SSH
2 1 (3.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Metadata
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Babel
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) gulp
1 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 11 (39.29%) Local Government
2 8 (28.57%) Police
3 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Finance
5 3 (10.71%) Legal
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) ICT Trainer
1 6 (21.43%) Trainer
2 5 (17.86%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) Development Officer
4 3 (10.71%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Service Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Product Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Business Manager
6 1 (3.57%) DBA
6 1 (3.57%) Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) PMO Officer
6 1 (3.57%) Portfolio Management Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) CSS
1 1 (3.57%) HTML
1 1 (3.57%) Node.js
1 1 (3.57%) OAuth
1 1 (3.57%) React
1 1 (3.57%) REST
1 1 (3.57%) Sass
1 1 (3.57%) Svelte
1 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.71%) NHS
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.57%) Solaris
3 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Line Management
1 11 (39.29%) Project Management
2 9 (32.14%) Roadmaps
3 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.00%) Agile
4 7 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (21.43%) Culture Change
5 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 5 (17.86%) Service Delivery
6 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (14.29%) Agile Project Management
7 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (14.29%) Data Collection
7 4 (14.29%) Emotional Intelligence
7 4 (14.29%) ITIL
7 4 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
7 4 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (10.71%) Analytics
8 3 (10.71%) Coaching
8 3 (10.71%) Planning and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Python
1 5 (17.86%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) Bash
2 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) DBS Check
2 6 (21.43%) HNC
2 6 (21.43%) HND
2 6 (21.43%) MOS
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (10.71%) SLA
3 1 (3.57%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) LXC
2 1 (3.57%) Samba
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Siemens
2 3 (10.71%) TOWER Software
3 2 (7.14%) Dell
3 2 (7.14%) HP
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle