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 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 450 487
Rank change year-on-year -19 +37 +191
Contract jobs citing French Language 95 108 143
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the General category 0.45% 0.49% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 52 71
10th Percentile £171 £314 £306
25th Percentile £308 £375 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -19.09% +13.40%
75th Percentile £578 £538 £700
90th Percentile £613 £577 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £363 £475
% change year-on-year +37.93% -23.68% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 5
10th Percentile £14.75 - £16.46
25th Percentile £15.00 £13.00 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £28.00 £17.14
Median % change year-on-year -44.64% +63.36% +3.88%
75th Percentile £20.00 £35.00 £17.50
90th Percentile £50.40 £35.75 £17.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.50 £13.00 £17.14
% change year-on-year +19.23% -24.15% +3.88%

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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,089 21,888 28,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.97% 58.73% 59.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,149 12,915 18,977
10th Percentile £275 £285 £300
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £646 £664
90th Percentile £738 £760 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,274 873 1,080
10th Percentile £13.58 £15.00 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.00 £16.47
Median hourly rate £24.34 £31.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% +12.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £58.49 £57.33
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.25 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £29.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -27.59% +11.54% +21.24%

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for French Language in the UK

French Language
Top 10 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 22 October 2025. 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 -6 78 £506 +15.06% 247
London +8 43 £465 -2.11% 165
Work from Home +14 33 £531 +20.74% 114
UK excluding London -20 32 £500 +37.93% 144
South West +24 12 £513 +36.67% 6
South East +8 10 £525 +53.96% 117
North West -12 4 £125 -64.29% 6
North of England -29 4 £125 -64.29% 13
Scotland +2 3 £500 - 1
East of England -7 3 - - 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 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (1.05%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.05%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.05%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.05%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) SAP MM
1 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) Magento
2 1 (1.05%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.05%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.05%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.05%) Shopify
2 1 (1.05%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.58%) Azure
2 8 (8.42%) SaaS
3 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 5 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.16%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (2.11%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.05%) AWS
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.05%) Figma
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.05%) OCI
6 1 (1.05%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) DNS
1 3 (3.16%) WAN
2 2 (2.11%) HTTP
2 2 (2.11%) VPN
2 2 (2.11%) VSAN
3 1 (1.05%) 4G
3 1 (1.05%) 5G
3 1 (1.05%) BGP
3 1 (1.05%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.05%) DHCP
3 1 (1.05%) Firewall
3 1 (1.05%) LTE
3 1 (1.05%) Network Security
3 1 (1.05%) OSPF
3 1 (1.05%) PPP
3 1 (1.05%) TACACS
3 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.05%) TETRA
3 1 (1.05%) VLAN
3 1 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.16%) Tableau
2 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.11%) Power BI
3 1 (1.05%) DB2
3 1 (1.05%) EDRMS
3 1 (1.05%) Informix
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.05%) Power Query
3 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.05%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.05%) Sisense
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Postman
1 1 (1.05%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.00%) Spanish Language
3 15 (15.79%) German Language
4 13 (13.68%) Italian Language
4 13 (13.68%) Marketing
5 12 (12.63%) Retail
6 11 (11.58%) Finance
6 11 (11.58%) Legal
7 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (9.47%) Japanese Language
8 9 (9.47%) Telecoms
9 7 (7.37%) Dutch Language
10 6 (6.32%) Portuguese Language
11 5 (5.26%) Arabic Language
12 4 (4.21%) Advertising
12 4 (4.21%) Banking
12 4 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
13 3 (3.16%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (3.16%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 11 (11.58%) Administrator
2 9 (9.47%) Analyst
3 8 (8.42%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.37%) Business Analyst
5 6 (6.32%) Customer Service Advisor
6 5 (5.26%) Service Manager
6 5 (5.26%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Architect
7 4 (4.21%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Technical Support
7 4 (4.21%) Technical Support Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.16%) Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Marketing Executive
8 3 (3.16%) SAP Manager
8 3 (3.16%) SAP Project Manager
8 3 (3.16%) Service Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.16%) Trainer
9 2 (2.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.21%) FIDO
2 2 (2.11%) .NET
2 2 (2.11%) OAuth
2 2 (2.11%) OpenID
2 2 (2.11%) SAML
3 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.05%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.05%) MDX
3 1 (1.05%) Middleware
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.05%) React
3 1 (1.05%) REST
3 1 (1.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.16%) Social Media
3 2 (2.11%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.05%) Clustering
4 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.05%) FMCG
4 1 (1.05%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.05%) New Media
4 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.05%) Replication
4 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.32%) Windows
2 5 (5.26%) Linux
3 2 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.11%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.11%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.05%) Unix
4 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (15.79%) CRM
2 15 (15.79%) E-Commerce
2 15 (15.79%) Migration
3 14 (14.74%) Customer Service
4 13 (13.68%) Project Management
5 11 (11.58%) ERP
6 10 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (9.47%) Change Management
8 8 (8.42%) Agile
8 8 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (7.37%) Process Improvement
10 6 (6.32%) ITIL
10 6 (6.32%) Service Delivery
10 6 (6.32%) Validation
11 5 (5.26%) Computer Science
11 5 (5.26%) Data Protection
11 5 (5.26%) High Availability
11 5 (5.26%) Workflow
12 4 (4.21%) Product Marketing
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.21%) SQL
2 3 (3.16%) Python
3 2 (2.11%) Perl
4 1 (1.05%) Bash
4 1 (1.05%) COBOL
4 1 (1.05%) Java
4 1 (1.05%) Jython
4 1 (1.05%) Korn
4 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (14.74%) Degree
2 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.11%) CCNP
3 2 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.11%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.11%) PMP
4 1 (1.05%) CCDP
4 1 (1.05%) CISSP
4 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.05%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.05%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.05%) VCDX
4 1 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) QA
1 3 (3.16%) SLA
2 2 (2.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.05%) GAAP
3 1 (1.05%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.05%) ISO 19650
3 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.16%) OpenAM
3 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.11%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.11%) vSphere
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.05%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (4.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.05%) TADDM
3 1 (1.05%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 17 (17.89%) SAP
2 11 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.58%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.26%) Oracle
4 4 (4.21%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.16%) VMware
6 2 (2.11%) Intapp
6 2 (2.11%) NetApp
6 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.11%) Workday
7 1 (1.05%) Adobe
7 1 (1.05%) Ariba
7 1 (1.05%) Cisco
7 1 (1.05%) Citrix
7 1 (1.05%) HP
7 1 (1.05%) IBM
7 1 (1.05%) Instagram
7 1 (1.05%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.05%) Qualtrics