French IT freelance day rates, 19 to 26 October: what 682 mission listings say

Vivien MORVAN — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:32:57 +0000

Every week 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 682 listings published from 19 to 26 October 2026, in euros, with a rate shown.

The headline: the median advertised rate is 485 EUR per day. Half of the listings sit between 425 and 550 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	41
Packaged software consultant (CRM, HR, finance)	575	15
Developer, other languages (R, Cobol, Perl, VBA, Ruby, shell)	508	18
Data developer (BI, big data, data engineer)	505	38
Assistant project manager	498	86
Business analyst	475	18
DevOps and cloud engineer	475	42
Production engineer	475	19
Python developer	468	30
Front-end developer (JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue)	455	34
Java developer (Kotlin, Groovy)	450	77
Product owner	442	18

The best paid family in the table, ERP consultant, is advertised at 605 EUR. That is 37 % above the lowest one, product owner, at 442 EUR.

The Paris premium

In Île-de-France the median is 525 EUR (380 listings). In the rest of France it is 430 EUR (283 listings). That is 22 % more around Paris.

The six regions with the most listings:

Region	Median EUR/day	Listings
Île-de-France	525	380
Pays de la Loire	432	50
Nouvelle-Aquitaine	432	48
Hauts-de-France	445	47
Occitanie	440	41
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	428	32

Does seniority matter?

Level	Median EUR/day	Listings
Intermediate	460	165
Senior	500	381
Expert	510	99

The step from intermediate to expert is 11 %. The gap between job families, 37 %, is larger than that.

Remote work

Of the 682 listings, 590 offer partial remote work, 44 are on site and only 11 are advertised as fully remote. The other 37 do not say.

Change since last week

This is the first edition, so there is no week-over-week change yet. The next edition will show it.

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.

Generated by an AI agent from the dataset described above, with no human editing.

Get French IT freelance missions (Free-Work) in a spreadsheet every morning, no code

Vivien MORVAN — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:00:14 +0000

Free-Work is the main French job board for IT: about 10,000 live postings, half of them freelance missions with a daily rate (TJM). If you track the French freelance market, feed a job alert, or want to know which consultancies hire for a given stack, you need those postings as rows, not as web pages.

This is how to get them as clean JSON or CSV in a few minutes, with an Apify Actor I maintain. No login, no proxy, no code required, and it respects the site's robots.txt.

1. Run it once

Open the Actor page: Free-Work Jobs & Freelance Missions Scraper and click Try for free. The form is already filled with a working example: keywords data engineer, postings of the last 7 days, 50 results. Click Start. About fifteen seconds later the run is finished and the dataset tab shows the postings.

Each record looks like this:

{
  "title": "Data Engineer",
  "companyName": "STHREE SAS",
  "contracts": ["contractor"],
  "experienceLevel": "senior",
  "remoteMode": "partial",
  "locationLabel": "Paris, France",
  "minDailyRate": 550,
  "maxDailyRate": 650,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "durationValue": 12,
  "durationPeriod": "month",
  "skills": ["AWS Cloud", "Databricks", "PySpark", "Python", "SQL"],
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-01T11:18:03+02:00",
  "url": "https://www.free-work.com/fr/tech-it/job-mission/data-engineer/data-engineer-1419"
}

Permanent jobs carry minAnnualSalary and maxAnnualSalary instead of the daily rates. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel from the same page.

2. Make it a daily alert

Save the run as a Task and set Published within (days) to 1.
Add a Schedule to the task: every weekday at 7:00.
Add an Integration to the task: Google Sheets (append rows), Slack, or a webhook to your own endpoint.

From then on the new missions of the day land in your sheet before you start working. Deduplicate on the id field if you keep your own copy.

3. Or call it from your code

JavaScript:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('bibian/free-work-jobs-scraper').call({
  keywords: 'python',
  publishedWithinDays: 7,
  maxItems: 100,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(token="<APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("bibian/free-work-jobs-scraper").call(run_input={
    "keywords": "python", "publishedWithinDays": 7, "maxItems": 100,
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items

Through the Apify MCP server, an AI assistant can call the same Actor as a tool.

Already on RapidAPI? The same search is available there as a plain REST API with monthly plans and a free tier, billed through your RapidAPI subscription: Free-Work Jobs on RapidAPI.

What it costs

Pay per result: $2.00 per 1,000 postings, plus $0.01 per run. The example above, 50 postings, costs about $0.11. New Apify accounts get free monthly credits, enough for a few thousand postings. There is no subscription.

What it does not do

It reads the public listing and posting pages only. It does not log in, does not collect candidate or recruiter data, and follows the robots.txt rules of free-work.com. If a posting field changes on the site, the Actor is test-run every day and repaired.

Questions or a missing field? Open an issue on the Actor page, I read them.

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