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 25 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 444 460
Rank change year-on-year -110 +16 +80
Contract jobs citing French Language 73 83 122
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the General category 0.29% 0.45% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 39 55
10th Percentile £257 £229 £198
25th Percentile £275 £345 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £463 £578 £608
90th Percentile £638 £650 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £370 £500
% change year-on-year -18.92% -26.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £18.30 £26.90 £13.60
25th Percentile £21.00 £30.50 £16.21
Median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +65.25% -53.96%
75th Percentile £46.75 £45.00 £26.78
90th Percentile £50.75 £58.50 £29.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.34 £11.86
% change year-on-year - +122.05% -

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 25,523 18,645 25,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.74% 63.17% 58.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,795 11,922 16,091
10th Percentile £305 £300 £270
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,617 795 1,928
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.13 £15.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.00 £28.42
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -1.48% -18.80%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.50 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% -6.85% -13.66%

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 25 April 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 25 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for French Language in the UK

French Language
Top 11 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 25 April 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 -112 51 £325 -34.18% 75
London -76 32 £338 -36.47% 46
Work from Home -33 23 £475 +5.56% 37
UK excluding London -87 20 £300 -18.92% 39
South East -58 8 £300 +20.00% 16
North of England -79 6 £335 -20.71% 13
North West -40 4 £115 -77.56% 7
East of England - 3 - - 1
North East -19 2 £363 -2.03%
Wales - 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 2 (2.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.37%) Apache
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.37%) CMS
2 1 (1.37%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Drupal
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) SAP MM
1 2 (2.74%) SAP QM
2 1 (1.37%) Eloqua
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.37%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.96%) Azure
2 7 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.85%) AWS
3 5 (6.85%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.74%) GCP
4 2 (2.74%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.37%) Canva
5 1 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.37%) Figma
5 1 (1.37%) IaaS
5 1 (1.37%) OCI
5 1 (1.37%) PaaS
5 1 (1.37%) SaaS
5 1 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) BGP
1 3 (4.11%) OSPF
1 3 (4.11%) TACACS
1 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
1 3 (4.11%) VLAN
2 1 (1.37%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.37%) Big Data
2 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.37%) MySQL
2 1 (1.37%) Parquet
2 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.22%) JIRA
2 2 (2.74%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) Postman
General
1 25 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.55%) Spanish Language
3 13 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (17.81%) German Language
4 11 (15.07%) Marketing
5 10 (13.70%) Finance
5 10 (13.70%) Italian Language
6 8 (10.96%) Dutch Language
7 7 (9.59%) Banking
7 7 (9.59%) Investment Banking
8 6 (8.22%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (8.22%) Portuguese Language
9 5 (6.85%) Retail
10 4 (5.48%) Front Office
10 4 (5.48%) Japanese Language
11 3 (4.11%) Advertising
11 3 (4.11%) Military
12 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
12 2 (2.74%) Polish Language
12 2 (2.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (13.70%) Technical Support
2 6 (8.22%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (8.22%) Senior
2 6 (8.22%) Support Engineer
2 6 (8.22%) Technical Engineer
2 6 (8.22%) Technical Support Engineer
3 5 (6.85%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (6.85%) Consultant
4 4 (5.48%) 2nd Line Technical Support
4 4 (5.48%) Analyst
4 4 (5.48%) Lead
5 3 (4.11%) Architect
5 3 (4.11%) Business Analyst
5 3 (4.11%) Developer
5 3 (4.11%) IT Manager
5 3 (4.11%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (4.11%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.11%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (2.74%) Procurement Consultant
6 2 (2.74%) SAP MM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.11%) Middleware
2 2 (2.74%) .NET
2 2 (2.74%) CSS
2 2 (2.74%) HTML
2 2 (2.74%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.74%) React
2 2 (2.74%) REST
2 2 (2.74%) SOAP
2 2 (2.74%) Swagger
3 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.37%) EDI
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.37%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.37%) Spring
3 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.37%) XML
3 1 (1.37%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (4.11%) Social Media
1 3 (4.11%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.74%) Blog
2 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.37%) CMDB
3 1 (1.37%) FMCG
3 1 (1.37%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.37%) LIMS
3 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.81%) Windows
2 8 (10.96%) Windows 10
3 6 (8.22%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.44%) CRM
1 12 (16.44%) Customer Service
1 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (12.33%) Agile
2 9 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (12.33%) Customer Experience
2 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (10.96%) AI
3 8 (10.96%) Analytics
3 8 (10.96%) Project Management
4 6 (8.22%) Computer Science
4 6 (8.22%) Decision-Making
4 6 (8.22%) Incident Management
4 6 (8.22%) Project Delivery
4 6 (8.22%) Scrum
5 5 (6.85%) ERP
6 4 (5.48%) Generative AI
6 4 (5.48%) Multichannel Marketing
6 4 (5.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (5.48%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.22%) SQL
2 3 (4.11%) Java
3 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.74%) Python
4 1 (1.37%) Korn
4 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (10.96%) Degree
2 6 (8.22%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.37%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.37%) CFA
5 1 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.37%) MBA
5 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.37%) PMP
5 1 (1.37%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.37%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) Basel III
2 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.37%) EMIR
2 1 (1.37%) GAAP
2 1 (1.37%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) IFRS
2 1 (1.37%) IFRS 17
2 1 (1.37%) IFRS 9
2 1 (1.37%) MiFID
2 1 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.37%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) SAP
3 6 (8.22%) Salesforce
4 5 (6.85%) Oracle
4 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.11%) Ariba
5 3 (4.11%) Google
5 3 (4.11%) HubSpot
5 3 (4.11%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.37%) BMC
6 1 (1.37%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.37%) Databricks
6 1 (1.37%) Dell
6 1 (1.37%) IFS
6 1 (1.37%) Informatica
6 1 (1.37%) LabVantage
6 1 (1.37%) Reuters
6 1 (1.37%) Workday