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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 459 468
Rank change year-on-year -107 +9 +56
Contract jobs citing French Language 90 95 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.30% 0.24%
As % of the General category 0.32% 0.47% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 49
10th Percentile £258 £253 £229
25th Percentile £293 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £519 £568 £568
90th Percentile £638 £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 20 8
10th Percentile £16.95 £14.75 £12.66
25th Percentile - £15.25 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% +19.23% -66.67%
75th Percentile £22.50 £37.50 £32.56
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 28,231 20,034 24,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.56% 63.10% 57.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,912 12,594 15,485
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £401 £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 £470 £488
% change year-on-year +6.38% -3.74% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,952 993 1,941
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.50 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.36 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.21 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +17.60% -14.89% +4.68%
75th Percentile £60.06 £52.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.13 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.95 £23.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year +38.91% -26.98% +21.39%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -122 71 £305 -37.60% 92
UK excluding London -109 39 £300 -41.46% 36
Work from Home -47 31 £406 -12.69% 42
London -88 30 £416 -10.65% 69
South East -38 24 £303 -42.38% 11
North West -35 12 £115 -77.56% 11
North of England -74 12 £115 -77.56% 15
East of England -30 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 3 (3.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.11%) CMS
2 1 (1.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Workfront
2 1 (1.11%) Actimize
2 1 (1.11%) Maximo
2 1 (1.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.67%) Azure
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (5.56%) AWS
3 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.22%) GCP
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.11%) BigCommerce
5 1 (1.11%) Commercetools
5 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.11%) SaaS
5 1 (1.11%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) BGP
1 3 (3.33%) OSPF
1 3 (3.33%) TACACS
1 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
1 3 (3.33%) VLAN
2 1 (1.11%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
1 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.11%) Big Data
2 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.11%) MySQL
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (4.44%) JIRA
2 2 (2.22%) Postman
General
1 35 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 33 (36.67%) Spanish Language
3 25 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (25.56%) Retail
5 17 (18.89%) German Language
5 17 (18.89%) Italian Language
6 12 (13.33%) Finance
6 12 (13.33%) Portuguese Language
7 8 (8.89%) Banking
8 6 (6.67%) Dutch Language
8 6 (6.67%) Front Office
8 6 (6.67%) Investment Banking
8 6 (6.67%) Marketing
9 5 (5.56%) Arabic Language
10 4 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (3.33%) Military
12 2 (2.22%) Legal
12 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
13 1 (1.11%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 21 (23.33%) Technical Support
2 17 (18.89%) 2nd Line Support
3 16 (17.78%) 2nd Line Technical Support
4 14 (15.56%) Analyst
5 11 (12.22%) Business Analyst
6 9 (10.00%) Senior
7 6 (6.67%) E-Commerce Analyst
7 6 (6.67%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
8 5 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Consultant
9 4 (4.44%) Lead
9 4 (4.44%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Technical Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Technical Support Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Field Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Junior
10 3 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
11 2 (2.22%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.11%) Spring
1 1 (1.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.78%) AI Agents
2 4 (4.44%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.44%) Web Conferencing
3 3 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.22%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.11%) CMDB
5 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.11%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.11%) FMCG
5 1 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.11%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 22 (24.44%) Windows
2 6 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.56%) Customer Service
2 29 (32.22%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (30.00%) Customer Experience
4 19 (21.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (16.67%) Agile
6 12 (13.33%) AI
7 10 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (10.00%) B2C
9 8 (8.89%) Analytics
9 8 (8.89%) CRM
10 7 (7.78%) E-Commerce
11 6 (6.67%) Matrix Organization
11 6 (6.67%) Roadmaps
11 6 (6.67%) Scrum
11 6 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (6.67%) Use Case
11 6 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
12 5 (5.56%) Customer-Centricity
12 5 (5.56%) Incident Management
12 5 (5.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.11%) SQL
2 3 (3.33%) Python
3 2 (2.22%) Java
4 1 (1.11%) Korn
4 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (14.44%) Degree
2 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.11%) CBAP
3 1 (1.11%) CFA
3 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.11%) MBA
3 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) QA
2 3 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.11%) EMIR
3 1 (1.11%) MiFID
3 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 13 (14.44%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.56%) SAP
4 4 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.33%) Adobe
5 3 (3.33%) Oracle
5 3 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.11%) BMC
6 1 (1.11%) Databricks
6 1 (1.11%) Dell
6 1 (1.11%) Google
6 1 (1.11%) IBM
6 1 (1.11%) IFS
6 1 (1.11%) Reuters
6 1 (1.11%) Workday