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 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 570 451 454
Rank change year-on-year -119 +3 +72
Contract jobs citing French Language 96 103 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.32% 0.28%
As % of the General category 0.32% 0.49% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 35 55
10th Percentile £256 £268 £313
25th Percentile £275 £419 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £513 £440
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +16.48% -16.19%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £539
90th Percentile £588 £615 £577
UK excluding London median daily rate £305 £513 £375
% change year-on-year -40.49% +36.67% -21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 23 8
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.75 -
25th Percentile £16.39 £15.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £15.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.71% -24.39% +17.14%
75th Percentile £40.00 £24.38 £35.00
90th Percentile £40.69 £50.70 £36.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.75 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -11.29% +19.23% -25.71%

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 30,059 20,818 22,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.53% 63.69% 57.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,649 12,901 13,405
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £419 £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 £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,459 1,196 1,125
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.69
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -32.03% +34.55%
75th Percentile £53.87 £48.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.25 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.30 £37.00
% change year-on-year +40.85% -42.43% +42.31%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 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
England -123 82 £305 -41.20% 436
UK excluding London -93 45 £305 -40.49% 123
London -93 34 £366 -21.40% 344
Work from Home -67 31 £428 -8.94% 221
South East -39 25 £305 -41.90% 50
North of England -72 16 £115 -77.56% 18
North West -42 15 £115 -77.56% 7
East of England -31 2 - - 9
South West -56 1 - - 24
East Midlands - 1 - - 9
Midlands - 1 - - 17
North East - 1 - - 4

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 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.04%) Apache
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.04%) CMS
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (11.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Workfront
2 1 (1.04%) Actimize
2 1 (1.04%) Infor M3
2 1 (1.04%) Maximo
2 1 (1.04%) Sage 50
2 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (6.25%) Azure
3 3 (3.13%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.08%) AWS
4 2 (2.08%) SaaS
4 2 (2.08%) Serverless
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.04%) Azure AI
5 1 (1.04%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.04%) BigCommerce
5 1 (1.04%) Commercetools
5 1 (1.04%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (1.04%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.04%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) Multicast
1 2 (2.08%) VLAN
1 2 (2.08%) WAN
2 1 (1.04%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.08%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.04%) Big Data
3 1 (1.04%) MySQL
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.04%) Parquet
3 1 (1.04%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (47.92%) Social Skills
2 39 (40.63%) Spanish Language
3 28 (29.17%) Italian Language
4 26 (27.08%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (26.04%) German Language
6 22 (22.92%) Retail
7 14 (14.58%) Finance
8 12 (12.50%) Portuguese Language
9 8 (8.33%) Dutch Language
10 7 (7.29%) Banking
11 6 (6.25%) Front Office
12 5 (5.21%) Arabic Language
12 5 (5.21%) Manufacturing
13 4 (4.17%) Investment Banking
13 4 (4.17%) Legal
13 4 (4.17%) Marketing
13 4 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (3.13%) Aerospace
14 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (3.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (23.96%) Technical Support
2 16 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 16 (16.67%) 2nd Line Technical Support
3 13 (13.54%) Analyst
4 11 (11.46%) Senior
5 10 (10.42%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.25%) Consultant
6 6 (6.25%) E-Commerce Analyst
6 6 (6.25%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) Technical Business Analyst
8 4 (4.17%) Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Help Desk Support
8 4 (4.17%) Junior
9 3 (3.13%) Field Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Marketing Manager
9 3 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.04%) .NET
1 1 (1.04%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.04%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.04%) GraphQL
1 1 (1.04%) REST
1 1 (1.04%) Spring
1 1 (1.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) AI Agents
1 6 (6.25%) Product Ownership
1 6 (6.25%) Web Conferencing
2 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.08%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.04%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.04%) FMCG
5 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.04%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.04%) Photovoltaics
5 1 (1.04%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.04%) Windows
2 7 (7.29%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.13%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.04%) Android
4 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 35 (36.46%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (32.29%) Customer Experience
4 26 (27.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (16.67%) Agile
5 16 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (11.46%) AI
7 9 (9.38%) B2C
8 8 (8.33%) Matrix Organization
9 7 (7.29%) CRM
9 7 (7.29%) E-Commerce
9 7 (7.29%) Incident Management
9 7 (7.29%) Roadmaps
9 7 (7.29%) Use Case
9 7 (7.29%) Workshop Facilitation
10 6 (6.25%) Analytics
10 6 (6.25%) B2B
10 6 (6.25%) Migration
10 6 (6.25%) Scrum
11 5 (5.21%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.79%) SQL
2 3 (3.13%) Java
2 3 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (1.04%) C#
3 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (15.63%) Degree
2 3 (3.13%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.13%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.08%) CCNA
3 2 (2.08%) CCNP
3 2 (2.08%) CIPD
3 2 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.08%) HNC
3 2 (2.08%) PMP
4 1 (1.04%) ACCA
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.04%) CBAP
4 1 (1.04%) CIMA
4 1 (1.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) QA
2 4 (4.17%) SLA
3 3 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (7.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (18.75%) ServiceNow
2 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.21%) SAP
4 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.13%) Adobe
5 3 (3.13%) Workday
6 2 (2.08%) Arista
6 2 (2.08%) Aruba
6 2 (2.08%) Cisco
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle
7 1 (1.04%) Foundry
7 1 (1.04%) IBM
7 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.04%) Palantir
7 1 (1.04%) Sage