Demand Tracker of IT projects for freelancers, France

Last update: 2023-10-01

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Am I the only freelancer suffering from a decreasing demand?

Are you no longer receiving propositions as frequently as before? Is the client’s sole focus securing the lowest rate possible? Are projects now shorter in duration? And what about remote job offers? Have they decreased even more compared to pre-pandemic times?

Can we blame intermediaries for this situation? Is the market overcrowded with individuals leaving their jobs and taking advantage of “chômage”?

The goal of this page is to provide you with an overview of the demand for IT freelancers in France. It may not fully reflect the market, as it is based on the information we could gather from various sources. Now, let’s examine the extent of the damage, who is affected, and what the current demand looks like.

Perimeter

Date: From May 2023

Projects: 20 659 job offers for freelancers in IT / Tech / Data

UN-Demand evolution

The market is shrinking.

Number of projects posted per week

Rates evolution

Since we don’t have data before May 2023 and usually rates’ evolutions can be observed on the yearly level, we can’t conclude that much on the rates. But we actualized the chart with the latest data.

Rates' evolutions

Top 5 highest paid projects last week

BAck to unsexy projects top 5 highest paid

Experience

Overall demand per experience

Number of projects per experience

Average Rate per experience

Your rates are stable when you have less than 5 years of experience, then they increase. Average rate per experience

Evolution of the demand per experience

Number of projects per experience

Location of the projects

Paris IDF vs. Others

Demand per region

Evolution of remote projects

Demand per remote

Evolution of the rates for remote projects

Rates for remote projects

Proportion of remote projects per experience

Proportion of remote per experience

SAP predicting demand

Demand for SAP

Projects starting ASAP

ASAP Projects

Impact of English skills on the rates

English skills

Backlog of analysis

That’s all for today :) Next steps:

  • Update the data every week
  • Do some NLP on the job descriptions and titles to identify the most popular technologies and positions and their evolution (I know this one has been on the to-do for a long now) PS: There are some exclusive analysis posted on the telegram channel

If you have any comments or ideas, send me an e-mail