Fire and Rescue Contracts

Fire and Rescue
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fire and Rescue in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fire and Rescue over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 674 852
Rank change year-on-year +123 +178 -157
Contract jobs citing Fire and Rescue 28 20 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.035% 0.012%
As % of the General category 0.11% 0.060% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 4
10th Percentile £240 £181 £245
25th Percentile £301 £311 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £390 £375
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £438 £450 £475
90th Percentile - £575 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £308 £390 £350
% change year-on-year -21.15% +11.43% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £15.07 - -
25th Percentile £21.54 - -
Median hourly rate £25.25 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.25 - -

All General Skills
UK

Fire and Rescue is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,681 33,520 49,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.02% 58.54% 56.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,587 23,230 34,613
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,020 1,422
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -
75th Percentile £52.78 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £66.59 £72.50 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.59% +52.63% -3.52%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Fire and Rescue in the UK

Fire and Rescue
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fire and Rescue over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fire and Rescue in the UK

Fire and Rescue
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Fire and Rescue in the UK

Fire and Rescue
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Fire and Rescue over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Fire and Rescue in the UK

Fire and Rescue
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fire and Rescue within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +126 28 £400 +25.49% 101
UK excluding London +53 16 £308 -21.15% 89
London +105 8 £425 +6.25% 17
North of England +33 6 £375 -4.46% 21
Midlands - 6 £240 - 21
West Midlands - 5 £240 - 13
North West +19 4 - - 14
Work from Home +108 3 £400 -20.00% 16
South West +4 3 - - 10
Yorkshire +19 2 £375 +240.91% 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 8
East of England - 1 £400 - 12

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 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.57%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) AutoCAD
1 2 (7.14%) Revit
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) DTS
1 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (50.00%) Finance
1 14 (50.00%) Police
1 14 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.00%) Local Government
3 5 (17.86%) Advertising
4 3 (10.71%) Electronics
5 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Military
6 1 (3.57%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Project Manager
2 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Lead
3 2 (7.14%) Senior
3 2 (7.14%) Transition Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Construction Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) e-Learning Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Technical Leader
4 1 (3.57%) Voice Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) CSS
1 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.57%) HTML
1 1 (3.57%) HTML5
1 1 (3.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) CCTV
2 4 (14.29%) Social Media
3 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.14%) PMI
4 1 (3.57%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) VMS
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Project Management
2 4 (14.29%) Cost Control
2 4 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (10.71%) ITIL
4 2 (7.14%) Data Management
4 2 (7.14%) PRINCE2
4 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.14%) Service Delivery
4 2 (7.14%) SIEM
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Analysis
5 1 (3.57%) Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Content Development
5 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (3.57%) Line Management
5 1 (3.57%) Mentoring
5 1 (3.57%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (3.57%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (3.57%) Process Improvement
5 1 (3.57%) Typography
5 1 (3.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) R
1 1 (3.57%) SQL
1 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.57%) CCNA
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.57%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.57%) PMP
4 1 (3.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) SLA
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.57%) iptables
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kibana
1 1 (3.57%) logstash
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe