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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 680 723 924
Rank change year-on-year +43 +201 +136
Permanent jobs citing Fire and Rescue 32 155 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.16% 0.048%
As % of the General category 0.084% 0.26% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 7 148 40
10th Percentile £33,241 £34,819 £26,076
25th Percentile £37,997 £36,365 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,197 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £53,926 £51,067 £55,859
90th Percentile £55,209 £55,000 £63,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,008 £45,000 £42,177
% change year-on-year +2.24% +6.69% +4.26%

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 38,240 59,246 69,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 69.42% 59.83% 68.22%
Number of salaries quoted 18,375 39,585 37,352
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -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 14 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 14 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 +16 24 £40,197 -10.67% 63
Work from Home +61 17 £46,008 +10.01% 6
London +118 14 £29,000 -40.61% 19
UK excluding London +54 10 £46,008 +2.24% 48
South East +90 6 £40,197 +0.82% 5
South West +24 4 £53,051 +17.89% 3

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 3 (9.38%) nginx
2 1 (3.13%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
2 3 (9.38%) GitHub
2 3 (9.38%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) LAN
1 3 (9.38%) WAN
2 1 (3.13%) DHCP
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) IPsec
2 1 (3.13%) SSH
2 1 (3.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Metadata
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Babel
1 3 (9.38%) Git
1 3 (9.38%) gulp
1 3 (9.38%) webpack
General
1 12 (37.50%) Police
2 10 (31.25%) Local Government
3 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
4 8 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Law
6 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (9.38%) Finance
6 3 (9.38%) Legal
7 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) ICT Trainer
1 6 (18.75%) Trainer
2 5 (15.63%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) Development Officer
3 4 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Site Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Systems Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (9.38%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Service Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Product Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Associate Director
6 1 (3.13%) DBA
6 1 (3.13%) PMO Officer
6 1 (3.13%) Portfolio Management Officer
6 1 (3.13%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) CSS
1 3 (9.38%) HTML
1 3 (9.38%) Node.js
1 3 (9.38%) OAuth
1 3 (9.38%) React
1 3 (9.38%) REST
1 3 (9.38%) Sass
1 3 (9.38%) Svelte
1 3 (9.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) NHS
3 3 (9.38%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.13%) Solaris
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Project Management
2 11 (34.38%) Line Management
3 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (31.25%) Roadmaps
4 7 (21.88%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
5 6 (18.75%) Agile
5 6 (18.75%) Culture Change
5 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (18.75%) Innovative Thinking
6 5 (15.63%) Service Delivery
7 4 (12.50%) Emotional Intelligence
7 4 (12.50%) ITIL
7 4 (12.50%) Logistics
7 4 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
7 4 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
7 4 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 4 (12.50%) Security Management
7 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.38%) R
4 1 (3.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) DBS Check
2 6 (18.75%) HNC
2 6 (18.75%) HND
2 6 (18.75%) MOS
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (9.38%) SLA
3 1 (3.13%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
1 1 (3.13%) LXC
1 1 (3.13%) Samba
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Siemens
2 3 (9.38%) TOWER Software
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle