French Language Contract Job Trends

French Language
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term French Language in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited French Language over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 461 439
Rank change year-on-year -108 -22 +59
Contract jobs citing French Language 97 91 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the General category 0.32% 0.44% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 33 55
10th Percentile £261 £265 £318
25th Percentile £303 £437 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £543
90th Percentile £638 £598 £577
UK excluding London median daily rate £305 £500 £363
% change year-on-year -39.00% +37.93% -23.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 23 9
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.75 -
25th Percentile £15.35 £15.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £15.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +151.61% -44.64% +63.36%
75th Percentile £40.18 £20.00 £35.00
90th Percentile - £50.40 £35.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.75 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -11.29% +19.23% -24.15%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 30,564 20,888 22,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.20% 63.29% 58.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,765 12,979 13,159
10th Percentile £313 £275 £281
25th Percentile £420 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £742 £738 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,690 1,240 989
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.50 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.11 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £25.08 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -26.10% +23.38%
75th Percentile £53.75 £45.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £71.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.39 £33.00
% change year-on-year +30.90% -35.18% +22.75%

French Language
Job Vacancy Trend

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

French Language job vacancy trend in the UK

French Language
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing French Language

French Language
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing French Language over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for French Language in the UK

French Language
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing French Language

French Language
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing French Language over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for French Language in the UK

French Language
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 October 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
England -118 80 £331 -35.37% 467
UK excluding London -98 41 £305 -39.00% 182
London -84 36 £406 -12.69% 324
Work from Home -75 28 £428 -12.88% 270
South East -44 23 £305 -41.90% 39
North of England -66 14 - - 36
North West -35 13 - - 13
South West -46 2 £550 - 28
Midlands - 2 - - 19
North East - 1 - - 8
East Midlands - 1 - - 8
West Midlands - 1 - - 11

French Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (4.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 4 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.06%) CMS
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (14.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (13.40%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (10.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.03%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Workfront
2 3 (3.09%) Eloqua
3 1 (1.03%) Actimize
3 1 (1.03%) Infor M3
3 1 (1.03%) Maximo
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (1.03%) Sage 50
3 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (6.19%) SaaS
2 5 (5.15%) Azure
3 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
3 3 (3.09%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.03%) Azure AI
4 1 (1.03%) Azure AKS
4 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.03%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.03%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.03%) BigCommerce
4 1 (1.03%) Commercetools
4 1 (1.03%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.03%) GitHub
4 1 (1.03%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (1.03%) Meta Ads
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (1.03%) OCI
4 1 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Multicast
1 2 (2.06%) VLAN
1 2 (2.06%) WAN
2 1 (1.03%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.09%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) JIRA
2 1 (1.03%) Postman
2 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (48.45%) Social Skills
2 37 (38.14%) Spanish Language
3 28 (28.87%) Italian Language
4 27 (27.84%) German Language
5 22 (22.68%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (20.62%) Retail
7 18 (18.56%) Finance
8 10 (10.31%) Portuguese Language
9 9 (9.28%) Marketing
10 8 (8.25%) Dutch Language
11 6 (6.19%) Banking
11 6 (6.19%) Manufacturing
12 5 (5.15%) Aerospace
12 5 (5.15%) Arabic Language
12 5 (5.15%) Front Office
13 4 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (4.12%) Legal
13 4 (4.12%) Publishing
14 3 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (20.62%) Technical Support
2 14 (14.43%) 2nd Line Support
2 14 (14.43%) 2nd Line Technical Support
3 13 (13.40%) Analyst
4 10 (10.31%) Business Analyst
5 9 (9.28%) Senior
6 7 (7.22%) Consultant
7 6 (6.19%) E-Commerce Analyst
7 6 (6.19%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
7 6 (6.19%) Lead
8 5 (5.15%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Field Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Help Desk Support
10 3 (3.09%) Architect
10 3 (3.09%) Developer
10 3 (3.09%) Marketing Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) Support Engineer
11 2 (2.06%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.03%) .NET
1 1 (1.03%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.03%) GraphQL
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.03%) REST
1 1 (1.03%) SailPoint
1 1 (1.03%) SAML
1 1 (1.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Web Conferencing
2 6 (6.19%) AI Agents
2 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.15%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.12%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.06%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.03%) FMCG
7 1 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.03%) Social Media
7 1 (1.03%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.68%) Windows
2 6 (6.19%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.06%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.03%) Android
4 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.93%) Customer Service
1 30 (30.93%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (28.87%) Customer Experience
3 23 (23.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (16.49%) Agile
6 12 (12.37%) AI
7 10 (10.31%) Analytics
8 9 (9.28%) B2B
8 9 (9.28%) B2C
9 8 (8.25%) CRM
9 8 (8.25%) Matrix Organization
9 8 (8.25%) Roadmaps
10 7 (7.22%) Decision-Making
10 7 (7.22%) E-Commerce
10 7 (7.22%) Scrum
10 7 (7.22%) Use Case
10 7 (7.22%) Workshop Facilitation
11 6 (6.19%) Incident Management
11 6 (6.19%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.53%) SQL
2 2 (2.06%) Java
2 2 (2.06%) Python
3 1 (1.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (19.59%) Degree
2 5 (5.15%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.12%) PMP
3 4 (4.12%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.06%) CCNA
5 2 (2.06%) CCNP
5 2 (2.06%) CIPD
5 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.06%) HNC
6 1 (1.03%) ACCA
6 1 (1.03%) CBAP
6 1 (1.03%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) QA
2 5 (5.15%) GDPR
3 4 (4.12%) SLA
4 1 (1.03%) GAAP
4 1 (1.03%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (6.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.49%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.22%) Salesforce
3 7 (7.22%) SAP
4 4 (4.12%) Adobe
5 3 (3.09%) Marketo
5 3 (3.09%) Oracle
5 3 (3.09%) Palantir
5 3 (3.09%) Workday
6 2 (2.06%) Arista
6 2 (2.06%) Aruba
6 2 (2.06%) Cisco
7 1 (1.03%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.03%) Foundry
7 1 (1.03%) IBM
7 1 (1.03%) Okta
7 1 (1.03%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.03%) Relativity
7 1 (1.03%) Sage
7 1 (1.03%) YouTube