French Language Contracts

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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 463 540
Rank change year-on-year +15 +77 +76
Contract jobs citing French Language 77 122 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the General category 0.42% 0.49% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 53 59
10th Percentile £266 £211 £210
25th Percentile £400 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £425 £467
Median % change year-on-year +13.53% -8.99% -6.60%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £544
90th Percentile £645 £675 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £581
% change year-on-year +13.89% -22.58% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 7
10th Percentile - £12.32 £22.80
25th Percentile £15.25 £13.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -33.70% +253.85%
75th Percentile £37.50 £35.00 £53.38
90th Percentile £46.50 - £60.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.50 £24.00 -
% change year-on-year -35.42% - -

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 18,284 24,705 32,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.47% 57.69% 58.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,564 15,577 22,850
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £759 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 808 1,967 996
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.77 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.67 £15.50 £17.60
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.41% +44.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.84 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.22 £28.13 £27.50
% change year-on-year -13.88% +2.27% +41.03%

French Language
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing French Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for French Language in the UK

French Language
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing French Language.

Daily rate trend for French Language in the UK

French Language
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing French Language over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for French Language in the UK

French Language
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing French Language.

Hourly rate trend for French Language in the UK

French Language
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing French Language over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for French Language in the UK

French Language
Top 11 Contract 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 29 May 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 +31 61 £489 +18.48% 431
London +32 37 £493 +36.81% 320
Work from Home +26 32 £458 -12.86% 2,027
UK excluding London +51 20 £513 +13.89% 160
North of England +20 14 £441 -11.75% 27
Yorkshire - 8 - - 4
North West +7 5 £513 +2.50% 20
South West - 3 - - 29
South East +29 2 £525 +31.25% 70
East of England +23 1 - - 12
North East - 1 £370 - 3

French Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.60%) SAS
1 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.30%) IBM Domino
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.30%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.30%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.30%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (5.19%) SAP PP
1 4 (5.19%) SAP SD
2 3 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.60%) Workfront
4 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.30%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.30%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.30%) SAP MDM
4 1 (1.30%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.99%) Azure
2 5 (6.49%) GCP
3 4 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.19%) SaaS
4 3 (3.90%) AWS
4 3 (3.90%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.60%) OCI
5 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.60%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.30%) Figma
6 1 (1.30%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.30%) IaaS
6 1 (1.30%) PaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) DNS
2 4 (5.19%) DHCP
2 4 (5.19%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.19%) VPN
3 2 (2.60%) Network Security
4 1 (1.30%) 4G
4 1 (1.30%) 5G
4 1 (1.30%) Firewall
4 1 (1.30%) HTTP
4 1 (1.30%) Intranet
4 1 (1.30%) LTE
4 1 (1.30%) PPP
4 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.30%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.60%) Informix
1 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
1 2 (2.60%) Power BI
1 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.30%) DB2
2 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (1.30%) Power Query
2 1 (1.30%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (1.30%) Sisense
2 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Git
1 3 (3.90%) JIRA
2 2 (2.60%) Postman
2 2 (2.60%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.30%) git-flow
3 1 (1.30%) LSMW
3 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.78%) German Language
3 12 (15.58%) Finance
4 9 (11.69%) Marketing
5 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.39%) Italian Language
6 7 (9.09%) Dutch Language
7 6 (7.79%) Spanish Language
8 4 (5.19%) Japanese Language
8 4 (5.19%) Retail
8 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.60%) Arabic Language
10 2 (2.60%) Banking
10 2 (2.60%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.60%) Games
10 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.60%) Korean Language
10 2 (2.60%) Law
10 2 (2.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (12.99%) Consultant
1 10 (12.99%) SAP Consultant
2 8 (10.39%) Support Engineer
3 6 (7.79%) Analyst
3 6 (7.79%) Business Analyst
4 5 (6.49%) Lead
4 5 (6.49%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.19%) IT Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) IT Support
5 4 (5.19%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Project Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) SAP MM Consultant
5 4 (5.19%) SAP PP Consultant
5 4 (5.19%) SAP QM Consultant
5 4 (5.19%) SAP SD Consultant
5 4 (5.19%) SAP SD/MM Consultant
6 3 (3.90%) Service Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (3.90%) Technical Business Analyst
6 3 (3.90%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) .NET
1 3 (3.90%) FIDO
2 2 (2.60%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.60%) OAuth
2 2 (2.60%) OpenID
2 2 (2.60%) RESTful
2 2 (2.60%) SAML
2 2 (2.60%) SOAP
2 2 (2.60%) Web Services
3 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.30%) CSS
3 1 (1.30%) Django
3 1 (1.30%) HTML
3 1 (1.30%) MDX
3 1 (1.30%) React
3 1 (1.30%) REST
3 1 (1.30%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.88%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.19%) Social Media
3 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.30%) Clustering
5 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.30%) New Media
5 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (5.19%) Linux
3 2 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.60%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.27%) Migration
2 14 (18.18%) Change Management
2 14 (18.18%) Project Management
3 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (10.39%) Agile
4 8 (10.39%) Computer Science
4 8 (10.39%) Data Migration
4 8 (10.39%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 8 (10.39%) ITIL
4 8 (10.39%) Service Delivery
4 8 (10.39%) Use Case
5 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (7.79%) E-Commerce
7 5 (6.49%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (6.49%) ITSM
7 5 (6.49%) Service Management
7 5 (6.49%) Service Migration
7 5 (6.49%) Validation
8 4 (5.19%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.49%) SQL
2 2 (2.60%) Bash
2 2 (2.60%) C#
2 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
2 2 (2.60%) Python
3 1 (1.30%) Korn
3 1 (1.30%) Perl
3 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (16.88%) Degree
2 4 (5.19%) A+ Certification
2 4 (5.19%) Master's Degree
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.90%) CISSP
4 2 (2.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.60%) CCSP
4 2 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.60%) GCIH
4 2 (2.60%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.60%) PMP
4 2 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.30%) MBA
5 1 (1.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) SLA
2 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.60%) NIST
2 2 (2.60%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.90%) OpenAM
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.30%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (3.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.30%) TADDM
3 1 (1.30%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 18 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 17 (22.08%) SAP
3 5 (6.49%) Google
4 4 (5.19%) Ariba
4 4 (5.19%) Oracle
5 2 (2.60%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.30%) Adobe
6 1 (1.30%) Citrix
6 1 (1.30%) Criteo
6 1 (1.30%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.30%) IBM
6 1 (1.30%) Instagram
6 1 (1.30%) Juniper
6 1 (1.30%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.30%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.30%) Telerik
6 1 (1.30%) TikTok
6 1 (1.30%) YouTube