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 2 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 470 457
Rank change year-on-year -103 -13 +79
Contract jobs citing French Language 99 100 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the General category 0.34% 0.48% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 32 56
10th Percentile £257 £251 £258
25th Percentile £296 £386 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £465 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +12.73% -17.50%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £550
90th Percentile £605 £599 £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £305 £513 £363
% change year-on-year -40.49% +41.38% -27.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 25 6
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.75 -
25th Percentile £19.31 £15.25 -
Median hourly rate £21.50 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.71% +19.23% -43.48%
75th Percentile £40.00 £36.00 £29.50
90th Percentile £41.58 £54.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.75 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -11.29% +19.23% -24.94%

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 29,346 20,916 22,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.01% 63.18% 57.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,454 13,076 14,194
10th Percentile £313 £280 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,145 1,115 1,411
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.97 £16.19 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +27.07%
75th Percentile £60.00 £51.10 £58.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £22.14 £38.12
% change year-on-year +49.05% -41.92% +46.62%

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 2 August 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 2 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for French Language in the UK

French Language
Top 9 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 2 August 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 -111 84 £315 -32.08% 116
UK excluding London -93 43 £305 -40.49% 37
London -64 37 £416 -10.16% 89
Work from Home -62 32 £428 -7.71% 54
South East -53 25 £305 -41.90% 19
North West -46 14 £115 -77.56% 7
North of England -69 14 £115 -77.56% 12
East of England -14 3 - - 2
South West -48 1 - - 2

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 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.01%) Apache
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.01%) CMS
3 1 (1.01%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 14 (14.14%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (7.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Workfront
2 1 (1.01%) Actimize
2 1 (1.01%) Maximo
2 1 (1.01%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (5.05%) Azure
3 3 (3.03%) AWS
3 3 (3.03%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.02%) GCP
5 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.01%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.01%) BigCommerce
5 1 (1.01%) Commercetools
5 1 (1.01%) SaaS
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.01%) Big Data
3 1 (1.01%) MySQL
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.01%) Parquet
3 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.02%) JIRA
General
1 44 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 40 (40.40%) Spanish Language
3 27 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (25.25%) German Language
4 25 (25.25%) Italian Language
5 23 (23.23%) Retail
6 15 (15.15%) Finance
7 12 (12.12%) Portuguese Language
8 8 (8.08%) Dutch Language
9 7 (7.07%) Banking
10 6 (6.06%) Front Office
11 5 (5.05%) Arabic Language
11 5 (5.05%) Investment Banking
11 5 (5.05%) Manufacturing
11 5 (5.05%) Marketing
12 4 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (4.04%) Legal
12 4 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (2.02%) Aerospace
13 2 (2.02%) Games
Job Titles
1 23 (23.23%) Technical Support
2 16 (16.16%) 2nd Line Support
2 16 (16.16%) 2nd Line Technical Support
3 14 (14.14%) Analyst
4 12 (12.12%) Business Analyst
5 10 (10.10%) Senior
6 7 (7.07%) Consultant
7 6 (6.06%) E-Commerce Analyst
7 6 (6.06%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
8 5 (5.05%) Lead
8 5 (5.05%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (5.05%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) Help Desk Support
9 4 (4.04%) Junior
10 3 (3.03%) Architect
10 3 (3.03%) Developer
10 3 (3.03%) Field Engineer
10 3 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.03%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.03%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.01%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.01%) Spring
1 1 (1.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) AI Agents
2 6 (6.06%) Web Conferencing
3 5 (5.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.02%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.01%) CMDB
6 1 (1.01%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.01%) FMCG
6 1 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.01%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.01%) Photovoltaics
6 1 (1.01%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.23%) Windows
2 7 (7.07%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.03%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (36.36%) Customer Service
2 35 (35.35%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (31.31%) Customer Experience
4 26 (26.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (14.14%) Agile
7 11 (11.11%) AI
8 9 (9.09%) B2C
8 9 (9.09%) CRM
9 8 (8.08%) Analytics
9 8 (8.08%) Matrix Organization
10 7 (7.07%) B2B
10 7 (7.07%) ERP
10 7 (7.07%) Incident Management
10 7 (7.07%) Roadmaps
10 7 (7.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (7.07%) Workshop Facilitation
11 6 (6.06%) Change Management
11 6 (6.06%) E-Commerce
11 6 (6.06%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.19%) SQL
2 3 (3.03%) Java
2 3 (3.03%) Python
3 1 (1.01%) Korn
3 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (15.15%) Degree
2 3 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.02%) CIPD
3 2 (2.02%) HNC
3 2 (2.02%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.01%) ACCA
4 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.01%) CBAP
4 1 (1.01%) CFA
4 1 (1.01%) CIMA
4 1 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.01%) MBA
4 1 (1.01%) PMP
4 1 (1.01%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.01%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.04%) QA
1 4 (4.04%) SLA
2 3 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.01%) EMIR
3 1 (1.01%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (7.07%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 16 (16.16%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.07%) SAP
4 6 (6.06%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.03%) Adobe
5 3 (3.03%) Oracle
5 3 (3.03%) Workday
6 1 (1.01%) BMC
6 1 (1.01%) Databricks
6 1 (1.01%) Google
6 1 (1.01%) IBM
6 1 (1.01%) IFS
6 1 (1.01%) Reuters