French Language Contract Job Trends in London

French Language
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term French Language in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited French Language over the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 310 352
Rank change year-on-year -73 +42 +69
Contract jobs citing French Language 30 40 53
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.31% 0.30%
As % of the General category 0.26% 0.46% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 26 26
10th Percentile - £231 £183
25th Percentile £275 £358 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £493 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.56% +23.13% -14.62%
75th Percentile £563 £584 £562
90th Percentile £633 £644 £577
England median daily rate £305 £513 £400
% change year-on-year -40.49% +28.13% -15.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 1
10th Percentile £16.95 £30.50 -
25th Percentile - £32.50 £29.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £54.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.11% +77.05% -33.70%
75th Percentile £22.50 - £31.75
90th Percentile £36.15 £59.40 -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +35.48% +19.23% -66.67%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 11,586 8,725 11,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.29% 68.10% 62.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,440 5,817 7,828
10th Percentile £350 £331 £335
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £700
90th Percentile £788 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +1.01% -2.85% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 164 234
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.48 £24.66 £18.39
Median hourly rate £34.06 £34.24 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +13.53% -7.20%
75th Percentile £45.50 £51.20 £48.44
90th Percentile £72.13 £64.63 £67.40
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.76 £32.90
% change year-on-year +17.07% -15.61% +9.65%

French Language
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

French Language job vacancy trend in London

French Language
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

French Language
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing French Language in London over the 6 months to 29 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for French Language in London

French Language
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

French Language
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing French Language in London over the 6 months to 29 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for French Language in London

French Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Workfront
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) SaaS
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) BigCommerce
5 1 (3.33%) Commercetools
5 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) IaaS
5 1 (3.33%) OCI
5 1 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 10 (33.33%) German Language
2 9 (30.00%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Banking
3 6 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Front Office
5 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Dutch Language
5 3 (10.00%) Italian Language
5 3 (10.00%) Marketing
5 3 (10.00%) Retail
5 3 (10.00%) Spanish Language
6 2 (6.67%) Japanese Language
6 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Back Office
7 1 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Czech Language
7 1 (3.33%) General Ledger
7 1 (3.33%) Law
7 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Analyst
1 5 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (16.67%) Support Engineer
1 5 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
1 5 (16.67%) Technical Support
1 5 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Business Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Junior
3 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Architect
4 2 (6.67%) E-Commerce Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Field Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Enterprise Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Content Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Insight Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) EDI
1 1 (3.33%) Middleware
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (3.33%) Spring
1 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (3.33%) XML
1 1 (3.33%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
1 4 (13.33%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (6.67%) AI Agents
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 5 (16.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Customer Experience
2 8 (26.67%) AI
3 6 (20.00%) Agile
3 6 (20.00%) Analytics
3 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (16.67%) B2B
4 5 (16.67%) CRM
4 5 (16.67%) ERP
4 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 5 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 5 (16.67%) Use Case
5 4 (13.33%) B2C
5 4 (13.33%) Generative AI
5 4 (13.33%) Time Management
5 4 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (10.00%) Data Privacy
6 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (10.00%) User Stories
6 3 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) Java
2 2 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) CBAP
3 1 (3.33%) CFA
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) MBA
3 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Basel III
2 1 (3.33%) EMIR
2 1 (3.33%) GAAP
2 1 (3.33%) IFRS
2 1 (3.33%) IFRS 17
2 1 (3.33%) IFRS 9
2 1 (3.33%) MiFID
2 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) SAP
3 4 (13.33%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.67%) Adobe
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Informatica
5 1 (3.33%) Reuters
5 1 (3.33%) Workday