French Language Contract Job Trends in England

French Language
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term French Language in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited French Language over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 424 465
Rank change year-on-year -128 +41 +78
Contract jobs citing French Language 71 78 87
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the General category 0.29% 0.46% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 43
10th Percentile £256 £246 £220
25th Percentile £275 £400 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £489 £400
Median % change year-on-year -37.60% +22.19% -20.00%
75th Percentile £488 £573 £535
90th Percentile £613 £609 £577
UK median daily rate £400 £470 £400
% change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 21 7
10th Percentile £16.95 £14.75 -
25th Percentile - £15.25 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% +19.23% -66.67%
75th Percentile £22.50 £37.50 £33.38
90th Percentile £36.15 £54.00 £35.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +35.48% +19.23% -66.67%

All General Skills
England

French Language falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,290 16,957 21,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.02% 63.88% 57.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,657 10,879 13,608
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -2.91% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,760 851 1,767
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.35 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.46 £15.92
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.28 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -17.33% +8.13%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.22 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £73.75 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.22 £31.89
% change year-on-year +17.56% -14.63% +4.40%

French Language
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing French Language relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

French Language job vacancy trend in England

French Language
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing French Language.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing French Language

French Language
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing French Language in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for French Language in England

French Language
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing French Language.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing French Language

French Language
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing French Language in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for French Language in England

French Language
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing French Language within the England region over the 6 months to 6 July 2026. 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
London -84 30 £416 -10.65% 69
South East -34 24 £303 -42.38% 11
North West -36 12 £115 -77.56% 11
North of England -76 12 £115 -77.56% 15
East of England -29 3 - - 1
French Language
UK

French Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (4.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.41%) CMS
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (15.49%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (14.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (7.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Workfront
2 1 (1.41%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.04%) Azure
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (5.63%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.82%) AWS
4 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.41%) BigCommerce
4 1 (1.41%) Commercetools
4 1 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.41%) GCP
4 1 (1.41%) SaaS
4 1 (1.41%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.23%) JIRA
2 2 (2.82%) Postman
General
1 34 (47.89%) Social Skills
2 32 (45.07%) Spanish Language
3 23 (32.39%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (26.76%) Retail
5 16 (22.54%) Italian Language
6 15 (21.13%) German Language
7 12 (16.90%) Portuguese Language
8 8 (11.27%) Finance
9 6 (8.45%) Front Office
10 5 (7.04%) Arabic Language
10 5 (7.04%) Banking
10 5 (7.04%) Investment Banking
11 4 (5.63%) Dutch Language
11 4 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (4.23%) Marketing
13 1 (1.41%) Back Office
13 1 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (1.41%) Czech Language
13 1 (1.41%) Japanese Language
13 1 (1.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (29.58%) Technical Support
2 16 (22.54%) 2nd Line Support
2 16 (22.54%) 2nd Line Technical Support
3 6 (8.45%) Analyst
4 4 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (5.63%) Business Analyst
4 4 (5.63%) Senior
4 4 (5.63%) Support Engineer
4 4 (5.63%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (5.63%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) Consultant
5 3 (4.23%) Field Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) Junior
5 3 (4.23%) Lead
6 2 (2.82%) Architect
6 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (2.82%) Senior Enterprise Architect
6 2 (2.82%) Tester
6 2 (2.82%) Training Consultant
6 2 (2.82%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.41%) Spring
1 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
1 4 (5.63%) Web Conferencing
2 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.82%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.41%) CMDB
4 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.41%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.41%) FMCG
4 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.41%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.41%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 21 (29.58%) Windows
2 5 (7.04%) Windows 10
3 4 (5.63%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (45.07%) Customer Service
2 28 (39.44%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (38.03%) Customer Experience
4 18 (25.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (12.68%) AI
6 8 (11.27%) CRM
7 7 (9.86%) Agile
7 7 (9.86%) Analytics
8 6 (8.45%) Matrix Organization
8 6 (8.45%) Roadmaps
8 6 (8.45%) Use Case
9 5 (7.04%) B2B
9 5 (7.04%) B2C
9 5 (7.04%) Customer-Centricity
9 5 (7.04%) Incident Management
9 5 (7.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (5.63%) Generative AI
10 4 (5.63%) Migration
10 4 (5.63%) Strategic Roadmap
10 4 (5.63%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.35%) SQL
2 2 (2.82%) Java
2 2 (2.82%) Python
3 1 (1.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 10 (14.08%) Degree
2 4 (5.63%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.41%) CBAP
3 1 (1.41%) CFA
3 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.41%) MBA
3 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.41%) EMIR
3 1 (1.41%) MiFID
3 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (25.35%) ServiceNow
2 12 (16.90%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.63%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.63%) SAP
4 3 (4.23%) Adobe
5 1 (1.41%) BMC
5 1 (1.41%) Google
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle
5 1 (1.41%) Reuters