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 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 442 485
Rank change year-on-year -115 +43 +54
Contract jobs citing French Language 97 101 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the General category 0.33% 0.49% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 50
10th Percentile £258 £253 £231
25th Percentile £296 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £568 £563
90th Percentile £635 £598 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £513 £350
% change year-on-year -41.46% +46.43% -35.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 24 7
10th Percentile £16.95 £14.75 -
25th Percentile - £15.13 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% +19.23% -66.67%
75th Percentile £22.50 £36.38 £33.38
90th Percentile £36.15 £54.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year - +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 29,039 20,592 24,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.84% 63.05% 57.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,402 12,939 15,355
10th Percentile £313 £281 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £472 £490
% change year-on-year +5.93% -3.67% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,013 1,044 1,890
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.36 £12.98
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.17 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.63% -16.41% +5.25%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £72.13 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £31.97
% change year-on-year +41.30% -28.06% +22.96%

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 12 July 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 12 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for French Language in the UK

French Language
Top 8 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 12 July 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 -115 77 £305 -37.60% 73
UK excluding London -91 42 £300 -41.46% 36
London -65 33 £416 -10.65% 50
Work from Home -49 32 £428 -7.96% 30
South East -51 25 £303 -42.38% 15
North West -37 14 £115 -77.56% 9
North of England -77 14 £115 -77.56% 11
East of England -23 3 - -

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 3 (3.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) Apache
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.03%) CMS
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (13.40%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (5.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Workfront
2 1 (1.03%) Actimize
2 1 (1.03%) Maximo
2 1 (1.03%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (6.19%) Azure
3 5 (5.15%) AWS
4 4 (4.12%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.06%) GCP
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.03%) BigCommerce
6 1 (1.03%) Commercetools
6 1 (1.03%) SaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) BGP
1 3 (3.09%) OSPF
1 3 (3.09%) TACACS
1 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
1 3 (3.09%) VLAN
2 1 (1.03%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.06%) DynamoDB
1 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.03%) Big Data
2 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.03%) MySQL
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.03%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Postman
General
1 40 (41.24%) Social Skills
2 34 (35.05%) Spanish Language
3 26 (26.80%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (23.71%) Retail
5 18 (18.56%) German Language
5 18 (18.56%) Italian Language
6 14 (14.43%) Finance
7 12 (12.37%) Portuguese Language
8 8 (8.25%) Banking
9 7 (7.22%) Dutch Language
10 6 (6.19%) Front Office
10 6 (6.19%) Investment Banking
10 6 (6.19%) Marketing
11 5 (5.15%) Arabic Language
11 5 (5.15%) Manufacturing
12 4 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (3.09%) Legal
13 3 (3.09%) Military
14 2 (2.06%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 22 (22.68%) Technical Support
2 17 (17.53%) 2nd Line Support
3 16 (16.49%) 2nd Line Technical Support
4 15 (15.46%) Analyst
5 12 (12.37%) Business Analyst
6 9 (9.28%) Senior
7 6 (6.19%) Consultant
7 6 (6.19%) E-Commerce Analyst
7 6 (6.19%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Lead
9 4 (4.12%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Technical Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Technical Support Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Field Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Junior
10 3 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
11 2 (2.06%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.03%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.03%) Spring
1 1 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) AI Agents
2 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.12%) Web Conferencing
3 3 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.09%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.06%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.03%) CMDB
5 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.03%) FMCG
5 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.03%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.03%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.71%) Windows
2 7 (7.22%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.02%) Customer Service
2 32 (32.99%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (28.87%) Customer Experience
4 23 (23.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (15.46%) Agile
6 12 (12.37%) AI
6 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (9.28%) Analytics
7 9 (9.28%) B2C
8 8 (8.25%) CRM
9 7 (7.22%) E-Commerce
9 7 (7.22%) Matrix Organization
10 6 (6.19%) Incident Management
10 6 (6.19%) Roadmaps
10 6 (6.19%) Scrum
10 6 (6.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (6.19%) Use Case
10 6 (6.19%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (6.19%) Workshop Facilitation
11 5 (5.15%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.59%) SQL
2 3 (3.09%) Python
3 2 (2.06%) Java
4 1 (1.03%) Korn
4 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) Degree
2 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.06%) HNC
4 1 (1.03%) ACCA
4 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.03%) CBAP
4 1 (1.03%) CFA
4 1 (1.03%) CIMA
4 1 (1.03%) CIPD
4 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.03%) MBA
4 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) SLA
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) EMIR
4 1 (1.03%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (6.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (18.56%) ServiceNow
2 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.19%) SAP
4 4 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.09%) Adobe
5 3 (3.09%) Oracle
5 3 (3.09%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.06%) Workday
7 1 (1.03%) BMC
7 1 (1.03%) Databricks
7 1 (1.03%) Dell
7 1 (1.03%) Google
7 1 (1.03%) IBM
7 1 (1.03%) IFS
7 1 (1.03%) Reuters