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 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 443 462
Rank change year-on-year -117 +19 +76
Contract jobs citing French Language 85 82 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the General category 0.31% 0.44% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 31 49
10th Percentile £258 £250 £217
25th Percentile £280 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +25.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £481 £572 £575
90th Percentile £638 £600 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £305 £519 £400
% change year-on-year -41.20% +29.69% -26.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 7
10th Percentile £16.95 - £12.54
25th Percentile - £15.25 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £22.75 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +75.00% -66.67%
75th Percentile £22.50 £37.50 £33.38
90th Percentile £38.25 £52.35 £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 27,038 18,778 24,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.98% 63.49% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,351 11,844 15,645
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 876 2,009
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.48 £12.78
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.16% -0.17%
75th Percentile £60.61 £54.00 £52.78
90th Percentile £80.02 £75.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.16 £24.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year +27.16% -16.95% +8.60%

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 14 June 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 14 June 2026.

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 14 June 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 -108 66 £305 -40.49% 82
UK excluding London -99 37 £305 -41.20% 34
Work from Home -47 29 £305 -34.41% 40
London -91 28 £375 -23.86% 54
South East -46 20 £303 -42.38% 14
North of England -65 13 £335 -34.63% 13
North West -34 11 £115 -77.56% 9
East of England -28 3 - - 1
North East - 2 £363 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 (2.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.18%) Apache
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.18%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (12.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (7.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (1.18%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.41%) Azure
2 7 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (5.88%) AWS
4 4 (4.71%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.35%) GCP
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.18%) BigCommerce
6 1 (1.18%) Commercetools
6 1 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.18%) IaaS
6 1 (1.18%) OCI
6 1 (1.18%) PaaS
6 1 (1.18%) SaaS
6 1 (1.18%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) BGP
1 3 (3.53%) OSPF
1 3 (3.53%) TACACS
1 3 (3.53%) TCP/IP
1 3 (3.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.18%) Big Data
2 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.18%) MySQL
2 1 (1.18%) Parquet
2 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (2.35%) Postman
General
1 33 (38.82%) Social Skills
2 27 (31.76%) Spanish Language
3 21 (24.71%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (23.53%) Retail
5 14 (16.47%) German Language
5 14 (16.47%) Italian Language
6 11 (12.94%) Finance
6 11 (12.94%) Portuguese Language
7 10 (11.76%) Banking
8 8 (9.41%) Investment Banking
9 5 (5.88%) Arabic Language
9 5 (5.88%) Marketing
10 4 (4.71%) Dutch Language
10 4 (4.71%) Front Office
10 4 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (3.53%) Military
12 2 (2.35%) Japanese Language
12 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (1.18%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Technical Support
2 14 (16.47%) 2nd Line Support
3 13 (15.29%) 2nd Line Technical Support
4 12 (14.12%) Analyst
5 11 (12.94%) Business Analyst
6 8 (9.41%) Senior
7 6 (7.06%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) E-Commerce Analyst
7 6 (7.06%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
7 6 (7.06%) Support Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Technical Support Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Lead
8 5 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (4.71%) Consultant
10 2 (2.35%) IT Project Manager
10 2 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
10 2 (2.35%) Senior Business Analyst
10 2 (2.35%) Training Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.18%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.18%) EDI
1 1 (1.18%) Middleware
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.18%) Spring
1 1 (1.18%) Spring Boot
1 1 (1.18%) XML
1 1 (1.18%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) AI Agents
2 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.53%) Web Conferencing
3 2 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.35%) Credit Risk
3 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.18%) CMDB
4 1 (1.18%) FMCG
4 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.18%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.18%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 21 (24.71%) Windows
2 7 (8.24%) Windows 10
3 6 (7.06%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.94%) Customer Service
2 25 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (23.53%) Customer Experience
4 16 (18.82%) Agile
4 16 (18.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (11.76%) AI
5 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (10.59%) CRM
7 7 (8.24%) E-Commerce
8 6 (7.06%) B2C
8 6 (7.06%) ERP
8 6 (7.06%) Incident Management
8 6 (7.06%) Matrix Organization
8 6 (7.06%) Scrum
8 6 (7.06%) Workshop Facilitation
9 5 (5.88%) Analytics
9 5 (5.88%) Customer-Centricity
9 5 (5.88%) Decision-Making
9 5 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (5.88%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.65%) SQL
2 2 (2.35%) Python
3 1 (1.18%) Java
3 1 (1.18%) Korn
3 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (15.29%) Degree
2 6 (7.06%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.35%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.18%) CBAP
4 1 (1.18%) CFA
4 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.18%) MBA
4 1 (1.18%) PMP
4 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) Basel III
2 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.18%) EMIR
2 1 (1.18%) GAAP
2 1 (1.18%) GDPR
2 1 (1.18%) IFRS
2 1 (1.18%) IFRS 17
2 1 (1.18%) IFRS 9
2 1 (1.18%) MiFID
2 1 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 17 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 15 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.24%) SAP
4 4 (4.71%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.53%) Oracle
5 3 (3.53%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.35%) Workday
7 1 (1.18%) BMC
7 1 (1.18%) Databricks
7 1 (1.18%) Dell
7 1 (1.18%) Google
7 1 (1.18%) IFS
7 1 (1.18%) Informatica
7 1 (1.18%) Reuters