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 13 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 574 710 701
Rank change year-on-year +136 -9 +336
Permanent jobs citing Fire and Rescue 85 42 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.062% 0.027%
As % of the General category 0.25% 0.11% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 31 27 14
10th Percentile £22,129 £35,000 £28,723
25th Percentile £40,625 £40,625 £31,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £33,297
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +50.16% -35.67%
75th Percentile £52,500 - £45,534
90th Percentile £70,000 £53,569 £61,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £32,004
% change year-on-year -10.00% +56.23% -38.17%

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 34,147 39,486 34,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 64.85% 58.42% 65.56%
Number of salaries quoted 19,251 18,997 25,521
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.84% +1.00% -4.76%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 +127 71 £45,000 -10.00% 31
UK excluding London +78 47 £45,000 -10.00% 33
Work from Home +96 33 £51,273 +2.55% 7
London +84 28 £55,000 -8.39% 9
Midlands +85 27 £45,000 +12.50% 1
West Midlands +66 24 £45,000 -18.09%
South West +43 10 £72,546 +179.02%
Scotland - 6 £22,129 - 4
East Midlands +23 3 £50,000 +25.00% 1
South East +17 2 £37,500 -25.00% 7
North of England +25 1 - - 14
Yorkshire -1 1 - - 7
East of England - 1 £45,000 - 5

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 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (16.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) Intranet
1 1 (1.18%) LAN
1 1 (1.18%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (1.18%) WAN
1 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.47%) GIS
General
1 35 (41.18%) Legal
2 31 (36.47%) Social Skills
3 28 (32.94%) Police
4 22 (25.88%) Aviation
5 21 (24.71%) Influencing Skills
5 21 (24.71%) Local Government
6 18 (21.18%) Finance
7 4 (4.71%) Law
7 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.71%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.53%) Digital Economy
9 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (27.06%) Service Manager
2 22 (25.88%) Operations Manager
2 22 (25.88%) Service Operations Manager
3 14 (16.47%) Analyst
3 14 (16.47%) Business Change Analyst
3 14 (16.47%) Change Analyst
3 14 (16.47%) Network Engineer
4 12 (14.12%) Business Manager
5 7 (8.24%) Business Change Manager
5 7 (8.24%) Change Manager
6 6 (7.06%) Associate Director
6 6 (7.06%) Technology Director
7 5 (5.88%) Business Development Manager
7 5 (5.88%) Development Manager
8 2 (2.35%) Lead
9 1 (1.18%) CAD Support
9 1 (1.18%) CCTV Engineer
9 1 (1.18%) Consultant
9 1 (1.18%) Programme Manager
9 1 (1.18%) Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (34.12%) NHS
2 22 (25.88%) Robotics
3 14 (16.47%) SCADA
4 10 (11.76%) Management Information System
5 8 (9.41%) Data Centre
6 7 (8.24%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (5.88%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.35%) CCTV
9 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.18%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (54.12%) Agile
2 45 (52.94%) Service Management
3 42 (49.41%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (42.35%) Incident Management
5 29 (34.12%) Change Management
6 26 (30.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (29.41%) AI
8 24 (28.24%) DevOps
9 23 (27.06%) ITIL
9 23 (27.06%) ITSM
9 23 (27.06%) Service Delivery
10 22 (25.88%) Business Continuity
10 22 (25.88%) Collaborative Culture
10 22 (25.88%) Customer Engagement
10 22 (25.88%) Observability
10 22 (25.88%) Resource Allocation
10 22 (25.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 22 (25.88%) Service Design
10 22 (25.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 22 (25.88%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
1 4 (4.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.18%) BICSI RCDD
2 1 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (32.94%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) SLA
Vendors
1 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.18%) Cisco