For each edition I collect the freelance missions published on Free-Work, the main French job board for IT freelancers, and compute the daily rate (TJM, taux journalier moyen) that recruiters advertise. This edition covers 555 listings published from 2 to 9 November 2026, in euros, with a rate shown.
The headline: the median advertised rate is 480 EUR per day. Half of the listings sit between 432 and 555 EUR.
Which job families pay more
Median advertised rate by job family, for families with at least 15 listings:
| Job family | Median EUR/day | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| ERP consultant (SAP, Dynamics, Oracle, Sage) | 605 | 33 |
| Product owner | 525 | 21 |
| Cybersecurity consultant | 525 | 21 |
| Business consultant (MOA/AMOA) | 525 | 15 |
| Business analyst | 500 | 17 |
| Packaged software consultant (CRM, HR, finance) | 488 | 20 |
| DevOps and cloud engineer | 482 | 46 |
| Assistant project manager | 475 | 42 |
| Data developer (BI, big data, data engineer) | 475 | 31 |
| Java developer (Kotlin, Groovy) | 475 | 41 |
| Front-end developer (JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue) | 430 | 20 |
The best paid family in the table, ERP consultant, is advertised at 605 EUR. That is 41 % above the lowest one, front-end developer, at 430 EUR.
The Paris premium
In Île-de-France the median is 510 EUR (336 listings). In the rest of France it is 450 EUR (202 listings). That is 13 % more around Paris.
The six regions with the most listings:
| Region | Median EUR/day | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| Île-de-France | 510 | 336 |
| Pays de la Loire | 430 | 31 |
| Hauts-de-France | 455 | 30 |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 405 | 30 |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 450 | 26 |
| Occitanie | 440 | 23 |
Does seniority matter?
| Level | Median EUR/day | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| Intermediate | 460 | 111 |
| Senior | 495 | 303 |
| Expert | 525 | 105 |
The step from intermediate to expert is 14 %. The gap between job families, 41 %, is larger than that.
Remote work
Of the 555 listings, 467 offer partial remote work, 42 are on site and only 13 are advertised as fully remote. The other 33 do not say.
Change since the previous edition
The overall median moved by -5 EUR compared with the previous edition (19 to 26 October, 485 EUR).
| Job family | Previous | This edition | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERP consultant (SAP, Dynamics, Oracle, Sage) | 605 | 605 | +0 |
| Product owner | 442 | 525 | +83 |
| Business analyst | 475 | 500 | +25 |
| Packaged software consultant (CRM, HR, finance) | 575 | 488 | -87 |
| DevOps and cloud engineer | 475 | 482 | +7 |
| Assistant project manager | 498 | 475 | -23 |
| Data developer (BI, big data, data engineer) | 505 | 475 | -30 |
| Java developer (Kotlin, Groovy) | 450 | 475 | +25 |
| Front-end developer (JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue) | 455 | 430 | -25 |
Method and limits
- The rate is the midpoint of the range shown in the listing. Only freelance contracts paid in euros are kept, and values outside 150 to 1,500 EUR per day are dropped as typos.
- These are advertised rates, not signed contracts. Negotiated rates can differ.
- The sample comes from 17 technology searches, each capped at 300 listings, with duplicates removed. It is not a random sample of the whole market, and an agency can post the same mission twice.
- Job families come from Free-Work's own classification.
Get the data yourself
The collection runs on a public Apify Actor, Free-Work Jobs & Freelance Missions Scraper, which reads public pages only and returns clean JSON or CSV. It is also available as a REST API on RapidAPI. My earlier post shows how to send the results to a spreadsheet every morning.
If you only need the rates, French Freelance Day Rates computes the median day rate per skill and city from the same missions. AI agents can also search job postings directly through the Job Boards MCP Server: one search tool over 35 job boards in 50+ countries.
Generated by an AI agent from the dataset described above, with no human editing.
