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 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 423 428
Rank change year-on-year -123 +5 +78
Contract jobs citing French Language 82 86 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.31% 0.28%
As % of the General category 0.32% 0.48% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 49
10th Percentile £167 £264 £312
25th Percentile £266 £386 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £519 £440
Median % change year-on-year -41.20% +17.90% -20.00%
75th Percentile £447 £588 £538
90th Percentile £553 £623 £575
UK median daily rate £406 £513 £440
% change year-on-year -20.78% +16.48% -16.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 8
10th Percentile £14.61 £14.75 -
25th Percentile £14.85 £15.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £15.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -24.39% +17.14%
75th Percentile £40.00 £24.38 £35.00
90th Percentile £41.05 £50.70 £36.13
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £15.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year +38.71% -24.39% +17.14%

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 25,608 17,771 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.67% 64.48% 58.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,098 11,246 11,725
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £424 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,164 1,009 997
10th Percentile £13.65 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.13 £25.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.77% -34.68% +40.00%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.65 £70.38 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £37.00
% change year-on-year +19.13% -32.03% +34.55%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -93 34 £366 -21.40% 385
South East -39 25 £305 -41.90% 55
North of England -72 16 £115 -77.56% 21
North West -42 15 £115 -77.56% 9
East of England -31 2 - - 13
South West -56 1 - - 27
East Midlands - 1 - - 10
Midlands - 1 - - 18
North East - 1 - - 4
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 4 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.22%) CMS
3 1 (1.22%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (15.85%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (13.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (8.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Workfront
2 1 (1.22%) Actimize
2 1 (1.22%) Infor M3
2 1 (1.22%) Sage 50
2 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.10%) Azure
3 3 (3.66%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.44%) SaaS
5 1 (1.22%) AWS
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.22%) BigCommerce
5 1 (1.22%) Commercetools
5 1 (1.22%) GitHub
5 1 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.22%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) Multicast
1 2 (2.44%) VLAN
1 2 (2.44%) WAN
2 1 (1.22%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.66%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.22%) MySQL
3 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (54.88%) Social Skills
2 38 (46.34%) Spanish Language
3 27 (32.93%) Italian Language
4 25 (30.49%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (26.83%) German Language
6 18 (21.95%) Retail
7 12 (14.63%) Portuguese Language
8 7 (8.54%) Finance
9 6 (7.32%) Dutch Language
9 6 (7.32%) Front Office
10 5 (6.10%) Arabic Language
11 4 (4.88%) Marketing
11 4 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (3.66%) Banking
12 3 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (3.66%) Investment Banking
12 3 (3.66%) Legal
13 2 (2.44%) Aerospace
13 2 (2.44%) Automotive
13 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (28.05%) Technical Support
2 16 (19.51%) 2nd Line Support
2 16 (19.51%) 2nd Line Technical Support
3 7 (8.54%) Senior
4 6 (7.32%) Analyst
5 4 (4.88%) Business Analyst
5 4 (4.88%) Consultant
5 4 (4.88%) Help Desk Support
5 4 (4.88%) Junior
6 3 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) Developer
6 3 (3.66%) Field Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) Marketing Manager
6 3 (3.66%) Support Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) Technical Support Engineer
7 2 (2.44%) E-Commerce Analyst
7 2 (2.44%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
7 2 (2.44%) Senior Marketing Manager
7 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.22%) .NET
1 1 (1.22%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.22%) GraphQL
1 1 (1.22%) REST
1 1 (1.22%) Spring
1 1 (1.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Web Conferencing
2 5 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.44%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.22%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.22%) FMCG
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.22%) Photovoltaics
6 1 (1.22%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 25 (30.49%) Windows
2 7 (8.54%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.66%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.22%) Android
4 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (43.90%) Customer Service
2 34 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (37.80%) Customer Experience
4 25 (30.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (9.76%) AI
6 8 (9.76%) Matrix Organization
7 7 (8.54%) Agile
7 7 (8.54%) CRM
7 7 (8.54%) Incident Management
8 6 (7.32%) Analytics
8 6 (7.32%) B2B
8 6 (7.32%) Migration
8 6 (7.32%) Roadmaps
8 6 (7.32%) Use Case
9 5 (6.10%) B2C
9 5 (6.10%) Customer Engagement
9 5 (6.10%) Customer-Centricity
9 5 (6.10%) Translating Business Requirements
10 4 (4.88%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.95%) SQL
2 3 (3.66%) Java
3 2 (2.44%) Python
4 1 (1.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (17.07%) Degree
2 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.44%) CCNA
3 2 (2.44%) CCNP
3 2 (2.44%) CIPD
3 2 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.44%) HNC
3 2 (2.44%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.22%) ACCA
4 1 (1.22%) CBAP
4 1 (1.22%) CIMA
4 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) QA
2 4 (4.88%) SLA
3 3 (3.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (8.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (21.95%) ServiceNow
2 15 (18.29%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.88%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.88%) SAP
4 3 (3.66%) Adobe
5 2 (2.44%) Arista
5 2 (2.44%) Aruba
5 2 (2.44%) Cisco
5 2 (2.44%) Workday
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle
6 1 (1.22%) Sage