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 have cited French Language over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 446 550 629
Rank change year-on-year +104 +79 -87
Contract jobs citing French Language 128 151 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the General category 0.52% 0.45% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 57 94
10th Percentile £206 £205 £245
25th Percentile £290 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £600
90th Percentile £690 £600 £671
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -16.28% +2.38% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 20
10th Percentile £17.08 £22.80 £11.21
25th Percentile £24.90 £27.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £32.75 £46.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.80% +253.85% -11.86%
75th Percentile £35.00 £53.38 £14.75
90th Percentile - £60.40 £28.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 - £13.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.33%

All General Skills
UK

French Language is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,707 33,460 49,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.06% 58.60% 56.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,592 23,193 34,217
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,917 1,020 1,414
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £17.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.60 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -10.72% +49.68% -0.22%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.43
90th Percentile £66.25 £72.55 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.59% +52.63% -4.76%

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 15 May 2024.

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 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for French Language in the UK

French Language
Top 10 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 15 May 2024. 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 +110 104 £400 -14.62% 223
London +104 65 £360 -23.16% 101
Work from Home +93 51 £550 +27.91% 103
UK excluding London +69 31 £450 -16.28% 130
South East +32 17 £371 -35.57% 36
East of England +18 9 £700 +40.00% 23
North West - 3 £525 - 20
North of England - 3 £525 - 31
Scotland - 1 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 16 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.47%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.69%) CMS
4 2 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.78%) Apache
5 1 (0.78%) Confluence
5 1 (0.78%) IIS
5 1 (0.78%) JBoss
5 1 (0.78%) nginx
5 1 (0.78%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.78%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.78%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (9.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.69%) SAP SD
3 5 (3.91%) SAP ERP
4 4 (3.13%) Teamcenter
5 3 (2.34%) SAP MM
6 2 (1.56%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (1.56%) SAP CO
6 2 (1.56%) SAP FI
6 2 (1.56%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.78%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.78%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.78%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (14.06%) Azure
1 18 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (7.81%) Entra ID
3 5 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (3.91%) SaaS
4 4 (3.13%) IaaS
4 4 (3.13%) Mimecast
5 3 (2.34%) AWS
6 2 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.78%) Serverless
7 1 (0.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.91%) DNS
1 5 (3.91%) Firewall
2 4 (3.13%) MPLS
3 3 (2.34%) DHCP
4 2 (1.56%) LAN
4 2 (1.56%) VLAN
4 2 (1.56%) WAN
4 2 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.78%) Broadband
5 1 (0.78%) Intranet
5 1 (0.78%) RFID
5 1 (0.78%) SSL
5 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.78%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.91%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.13%) MySQL
2 4 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.34%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.56%) DB2
4 2 (1.56%) GIS
4 2 (1.56%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.56%) Power BI
5 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (4.69%) JIRA
2 3 (2.34%) Git
3 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.78%) GitLab
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 48 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 35 (27.34%) German Language
3 25 (19.53%) Finance
4 21 (16.41%) Marketing
5 18 (14.06%) Spanish Language
6 17 (13.28%) Manufacturing
7 16 (12.50%) Italian Language
8 10 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (5.47%) Banking
9 7 (5.47%) Telecoms
10 6 (4.69%) Legal
10 6 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (3.13%) Advertising
12 4 (3.13%) Arabic Language
12 4 (3.13%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (2.34%) Japanese Language
13 3 (2.34%) Public Sector
13 3 (2.34%) Retail
14 2 (1.56%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 24 (18.75%) Consultant
2 14 (10.94%) Analyst
3 10 (7.81%) Project Manager
4 9 (7.03%) Architect
4 9 (7.03%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.47%) Business Analyst
5 7 (5.47%) Lead
6 5 (3.91%) IT Support
6 5 (3.91%) Workday Consultant
7 4 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (3.13%) SAP Architect
7 4 (3.13%) SAP Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.13%) Security Consultant
7 4 (3.13%) Senior
7 4 (3.13%) Senior Manager
7 4 (3.13%) Service Delivery Manager
7 4 (3.13%) Service Manager
7 4 (3.13%) Support Engineer
8 3 (2.34%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (2.34%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.34%) React
2 2 (1.56%) CSS
2 2 (1.56%) GraphQL
2 2 (1.56%) gRPC
2 2 (1.56%) HTML
2 2 (1.56%) JSON
2 2 (1.56%) Next.js
2 2 (1.56%) Node.js
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.56%) RESTful
2 2 (1.56%) SOAP
2 2 (1.56%) TIBCO EMS
2 2 (1.56%) XML
2 2 (1.56%) XSD
2 2 (1.56%) XSLT
3 1 (0.78%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.78%) LAMP
3 1 (0.78%) MDX
3 1 (0.78%) SAP ALE
3 1 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.69%) FMCG
2 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.34%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.56%) Digital Media
3 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.56%) Social Media
3 2 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.78%) Device Driver
4 1 (0.78%) EPoS
4 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.78%) Photography
4 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (19.53%) Windows
2 12 (9.38%) Windows 10
3 8 (6.25%) Android
4 7 (5.47%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.91%) Apple iOS
5 5 (3.91%) Linux
6 2 (1.56%) Unix
7 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (15.63%) Project Management
3 13 (10.16%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (9.38%) Agile
4 12 (9.38%) ERP
5 10 (7.81%) Service Delivery
6 8 (6.25%) B2B
6 8 (6.25%) Critical Thinking
6 8 (6.25%) Migration
6 8 (6.25%) Roadmaps
7 7 (5.47%) Analytics
7 7 (5.47%) Data Loss Prevention
7 7 (5.47%) DevOps
7 7 (5.47%) Logistics
7 7 (5.47%) Process Improvement
8 6 (4.69%) Computer Science
8 6 (4.69%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (4.69%) ITIL
8 6 (4.69%) SEO
8 6 (4.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.91%) SQL
2 4 (3.13%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.34%) Python
3 3 (2.34%) VB
3 3 (2.34%) VBScript
4 2 (1.56%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.56%) XPath
5 1 (0.78%) ABAP
5 1 (0.78%) Bash
5 1 (0.78%) C#
5 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.78%) Perl
5 1 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (16.41%) Degree
2 6 (4.69%) CISM
2 6 (4.69%) CISSP
3 5 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.13%) CISA
4 4 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.13%) CISMP
4 4 (3.13%) CRISC
4 4 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.13%) SAP Certification
4 4 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.56%) ACCA
5 2 (1.56%) CIMA
6 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.78%) PMP
6 1 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.47%) SLA
2 6 (4.69%) QA
3 4 (3.13%) COBIT
3 4 (3.13%) GRC
3 4 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.13%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) GxP
4 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.13%) Docker
2 4 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.56%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.78%) Firmware
4 1 (0.78%) Postfix
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (6.25%) SCCM
3 4 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.56%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.56%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.78%) Ansible
5 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.78%) Puppet
5 1 (0.78%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (22.66%) Microsoft
2 26 (20.31%) SAP
3 7 (5.47%) Citrix
4 6 (4.69%) Apple
4 6 (4.69%) Oracle
4 6 (4.69%) VMware
4 6 (4.69%) Workday
5 5 (3.91%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.13%) Okta
6 4 (3.13%) Siemens
7 3 (2.34%) Ariba
8 2 (1.56%) Avaya
8 2 (1.56%) ESRI
8 2 (1.56%) IBM
8 2 (1.56%) Ivanti
8 2 (1.56%) Sun
8 2 (1.56%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.78%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.78%) Meraki
9 1 (0.78%) Veeam