Fire and Rescue Job Trends

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 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 705 731
Rank change year-on-year +125 +26 +312
Permanent jobs citing Fire and Rescue 88 50 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.071% 0.030%
As % of the General category 0.26% 0.12% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 27 37 17
10th Percentile £22,129 £31,400 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,125 £40,000 £28,175
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £33,600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +48.81% -23.72%
75th Percentile - - £37,575
90th Percentile £60,000 £58,581 £63,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £29,508
% change year-on-year -10.00% +69.45% -24.96%

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 33,276 40,694 36,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 68.05% 57.73% 65.36%
Number of salaries quoted 17,675 20,125 27,246
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,000 £50,000 £50,702
% change year-on-year -14.00% -1.38% -2.50%

Fire and Rescue
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Fire and Rescue relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Fire and Rescue job vacancy trend in the UK

Fire and Rescue
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fire and Rescue.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fire and Rescue

Fire and Rescue
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fire and Rescue over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Fire and Rescue in the UK

Fire and Rescue
Top 13 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 16 October 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 +133 69 £45,000 -10.00% 31
UK excluding London +72 43 £45,000 -10.00% 28
Work from Home +63 34 £51,273 +2.55% 13
London +83 30 £55,000 -12.85% 8
Midlands +58 23 £45,000 +12.50% 7
West Midlands +59 21 £45,000 -18.09% 6
South West +49 10 £72,546 +104.35%
Scotland - 6 £22,129 - 1
South East +18 2 £37,500 -25.00% 14
East Midlands +18 2 £30,000 -25.00%
Yorkshire +7 1 - - 1
North of England +4 1 - - 3
East of England - 1 £45,000 - 4

Fire and Rescue
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.41%) nginx
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (15.91%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.86%) SaaS
2 3 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (3.41%) AWS
2 3 (3.41%) GitHub
2 3 (3.41%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) LAN
1 2 (2.27%) WAN
2 1 (1.14%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.91%) GIS
2 3 (3.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Babel
1 3 (3.41%) Git
1 3 (3.41%) gulp
1 3 (3.41%) webpack
General
1 37 (42.05%) Legal
2 34 (38.64%) Social Skills
3 32 (36.36%) Police
4 23 (26.14%) Local Government
5 21 (23.86%) Aviation
5 21 (23.86%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (22.73%) Finance
7 7 (7.95%) Law
8 6 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
10 3 (3.41%) Digital Economy
10 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (26.14%) Service Manager
2 21 (23.86%) Operations Manager
2 21 (23.86%) Service Operations Manager
3 14 (15.91%) Analyst
3 14 (15.91%) Business Change Analyst
3 14 (15.91%) Change Analyst
3 14 (15.91%) Network Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Business Manager
5 7 (7.95%) Business Change Manager
5 7 (7.95%) Change Manager
6 6 (6.82%) Associate Director
6 6 (6.82%) Technology Director
7 4 (4.55%) Security Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Site Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Systems Manager
8 3 (3.41%) Developer
8 3 (3.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (3.41%) Lead
9 2 (2.27%) Senior
10 1 (1.14%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) CSS
1 3 (3.41%) HTML
1 3 (3.41%) Node.js
1 3 (3.41%) OAuth
1 3 (3.41%) React
1 3 (3.41%) REST
1 3 (3.41%) Sass
1 3 (3.41%) Svelte
1 3 (3.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (31.82%) NHS
2 21 (23.86%) Robotics
3 14 (15.91%) SCADA
4 13 (14.77%) Management Information System
5 7 (7.95%) Data Centre
6 6 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (5.68%) Driving Licence
8 3 (3.41%) Smart City
9 2 (2.27%) CCTV
10 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (53.41%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (51.14%) Agile
3 44 (50.00%) Service Management
4 35 (39.77%) Incident Management
5 28 (31.82%) Change Management
6 26 (29.55%) DevOps
7 25 (28.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (27.27%) AI
9 23 (26.14%) ITIL
9 23 (26.14%) ITSM
9 23 (26.14%) Service Delivery
10 21 (23.86%) Business Continuity
10 21 (23.86%) Case Management
10 21 (23.86%) Customer Engagement
10 21 (23.86%) Incident Response
10 21 (23.86%) Resource Allocation
10 21 (23.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 21 (23.86%) Service Design
10 21 (23.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 21 (23.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
1 3 (3.41%) Python
1 3 (3.41%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared
1 3 (3.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (30.68%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) SLA
Vendors
1 16 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.14%) Siemens
2 1 (1.14%) TOWER Software