The technology job market: France

Where opportunities appear

Locations follow the advert text. Market sample, physical location and remote eligibility can differ.

• Paris160
• Toulouse88
• Bordeaux44
• Strasbourg44
• Lyon39
• Nantes31
• Montpellier25
• Aix-en-Provence24
• Lille22
• France21
• Greater Paris Metropolitan Region18
• Grenoble17
• Marseille16
• Rennes16
• Brest15
• Niort12
• Valbonne10
• Nice9
• Vélizy-Villacoublay9
• Clermont-Ferrand9

Work policy

• On-site548 51.0%
• Hybrid386 35.9%
• Not specified81 7.5%
• Remote60 5.6%

Conflicting work-policy evidence accounts for 27 of the unspecified postings.

Where remote work is allowed

Remote within the country · 1 (0.2%)

These postings name a single eligible country. The breakdown below shows the places stated in the adverts.

Shares are among remote and hybrid postings. A posting can name several places. Hybrid roles can also require office attendance.

• Eligibility unstated442 99.1%
• Europe2 0.4%
• European Union1 0.2%
• France1 0.2%

A skill means more in context

Selected technologies, with supporting text. A mention is not automatically a requirement. Programming, data work and supporting scripts are counted separately; one advert can mention several skills.

• Linux253 · 23.5%

  Required

  8

  Preferred

  27

  Alternative

  1

  Incidental mention

  4

  Unclassified mention

  213

  Building software

  2

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  1

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering28 Data & AI5 Cloud & infrastructure186 Cybersecurity0 IT support18 Business applications3 Industrial & embedded2 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects11 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Kubernetes236 · 22.0%

  Required

  8

  Preferred

  17

  Alternative

  1

  Incidental mention

  8

  Unclassified mention

  202

  Building software

  5

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  2

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering90 Data & AI11 Cloud & infrastructure129 Cybersecurity0 IT support2 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles0 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Azure209 · 19.4%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  18

  Alternative

  12

  Incidental mention

  9

  Unclassified mention

  170

  Building software

  4

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  4

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering62 Data & AI9 Cloud & infrastructure124 Cybersecurity0 IT support2 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded2 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects10 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Python205 · 19.1%

  Required

  9

  Preferred

  16

  Alternative

  21

  Incidental mention

  6

  Unclassified mention

  153

  Building software

  36

  Supporting scripts

  93

  Data / ML

  11

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering47 Data & AI33 Cloud & infrastructure113 Cybersecurity0 IT support4 Business applications3 Industrial & embedded3 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Docker187 · 17.4%

  Required

  3

  Preferred

  16

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  7

  Unclassified mention

  161

  Building software

  2

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  2

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering71 Data & AI7 Cloud & infrastructure106 Cybersecurity0 IT support2 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• AWS173 · 16.1%

  Required

  3

  Preferred

  13

  Alternative

  13

  Incidental mention

  11

  Unclassified mention

  133

  Building software

  8

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  1

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering45 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure112 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded2 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects10 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Terraform167 · 15.5%

  Required

  2

  Preferred

  4

  Alternative

  9

  Incidental mention

  7

  Unclassified mention

  145

  Building software

  2

  Supporting scripts

  2

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering28 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure135 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects3 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• .NET164 · 15.3%

  Required

  3

  Preferred

  15

  Alternative

  5

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  140

  Building software

  39

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering145 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure9 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications4 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects4 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• SQL158 · 14.7%

  Required

  4

  Preferred

  17

  Alternative

  1

  Incidental mention

  2

  Unclassified mention

  134

  Building software

  15

  Supporting scripts

  5

  Data / ML

  19

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering66 Data & AI30 Cloud & infrastructure21 Cybersecurity0 IT support12 Business applications15 Industrial & embedded2 Product & design3 IT leadership & projects9 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• C#149 · 13.9%

  Required

  4

  Preferred

  11

  Alternative

  6

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  125

  Building software

  35

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering122 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure9 Cybersecurity0 IT support3 Business applications4 Industrial & embedded2 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects8 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• GCP118 · 11.0%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  12

  Alternative

  10

  Incidental mention

  6

  Unclassified mention

  89

  Building software

  4

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  5

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering26 Data & AI7 Cloud & infrastructure77 Cybersecurity0 IT support2 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects5 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• PowerShell102 · 9.5%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  7

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  93

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  92

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering3 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure90 Cybersecurity0 IT support4 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded2 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Bash82 · 7.6%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  12

  Alternative

  4

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  66

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  74

  Data / ML

  1

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering3 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure74 Cybersecurity0 IT support3 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Java81 · 7.5%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  5

  Alternative

  14

  Incidental mention

  8

  Unclassified mention

  53

  Building software

  19

  Supporting scripts

  3

  Data / ML

  2

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering49 Data & AI4 Cloud & infrastructure20 Cybersecurity0 IT support3 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design2 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles0 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Angular62 · 5.8%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  10

  Alternative

  2

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  48

  Building software

  18

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  1

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering56 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure4 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• React59 · 5.5%

  Required

  4

  Preferred

  7

  Alternative

  5

  Incidental mention

  5

  Unclassified mention

  38

  Building software

  24

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  1

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering49 Data & AI2 Cloud & infrastructure4 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles0 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• TypeScript49 · 4.6%

  Required

  6

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  4

  Incidental mention

  8

  Unclassified mention

  30

  Building software

  19

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  1

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering40 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure5 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• PHP42 · 3.9%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  5

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  12

  Unclassified mention

  25

  Building software

  7

  Supporting scripts

  2

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering27 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure9 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects3 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• JavaScript34 · 3.2%

  Required

  2

  Preferred

  2

  Alternative

  3

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  26

  Building software

  9

  Supporting scripts

  2

  Data / ML

  2

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering22 Data & AI2 Cloud & infrastructure3 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded2 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects3 Other roles0 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• C++29 · 2.7%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  6

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  18

  Building software

  7

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering14 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure8 Cybersecurity0 IT support2 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Go26 · 2.4%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  5

  Alternative

  10

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  10

  Building software

  8

  Supporting scripts

  8

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering12 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure13 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Node.js22 · 2.0%

  Required

  6

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  3

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  11

  Building software

  8

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering17 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure3 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• LLM19 · 1.8%

  Required

  2

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  4

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  11

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  8

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering8 Data & AI5 Cloud & infrastructure4 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Claude Code18 · 1.7%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  5

  Unclassified mention

  12

  Building software

  13

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering10 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure6 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• SAP18 · 1.7%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  7

  Unclassified mention

  9

  Building software

  2

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  2

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering1 Data & AI4 Cloud & infrastructure6 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications4 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Machine learning13 · 1.2%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  1

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  8

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  8

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering3 Data & AI6 Cloud & infrastructure2 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• C11 · 1.0%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  1

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  9

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering4 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure4 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Salesforce11 · 1.0%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  5

  Unclassified mention

  6

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  1

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering2 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure3 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects3 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Cursor9 · 0.8%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  8

  Building software

  7

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering7 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure2 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Ruby8 · 0.7%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  4

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  3

  Building software

  2

  Supporting scripts

  2

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering2 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure5 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Rust7 · 0.7%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  4

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  2

  Building software

  5

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering5 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure2 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• GitHub Copilot6 · 0.6%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  6

  Building software

  4

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering4 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure1 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles1 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• SCADA5 · 0.5%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  4

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering0 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded5 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Codex2 · 0.2%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  1

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering1 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• PLC1 · 0.1%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  0

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering0 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

Beyond a single language

No explicit signal

997

Accepts named alternatives

70

Open to learning or switching

8

Adverts mentioning AI-assisted engineering

39

These are separate signals. A list of languages does not establish language agnosticism, and these observations cannot show that AI caused a change.

Most requested skills by role

Country sample · France. Open a role family to see its most requested skills.

• Cloud & infrastructure Adverts (403)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  Kubernetes	4	1.0%
  Linux	4	1.0%
  Terraform	2	0.5%
  AWS	1	0.2%
  GCP	1	0.2%
  PowerShell	1	0.2%
  SQL	1	0.2%

• Software engineering Adverts (295)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  Node.js	6	2.0%
  TypeScript	6	2.0%
  Python	5	1.7%
  C#	4	1.4%
  React	4	1.4%
  .NET	3	1.0%
  Docker	3	1.0%
  Kubernetes	3	1.0%
  AWS	2	0.7%
  JavaScript	2	0.7%

• IT leadership & projects Adverts (156)

  No skills were explicitly required in this role family.

• IT support Adverts (87)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  Linux	3	3.4%

• Data & AI Adverts (57)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  Python	4	7.0%
  Kubernetes	1	1.8%
  LLM	1	1.8%
  Machine learning	1	1.8%
  SAP	1	1.8%

• Business applications Adverts (30)

  No skills were explicitly required in this role family.

• Other roles Adverts (14)

  No skills were explicitly required in this role family.

• Product & design Adverts (12)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  SQL	2	16.7%

• Industrial & embedded Adverts (10)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  Linux	1	10.0%
  PLC	1	10.0%
  SCADA	1	10.0%
  SQL	1	10.0%

• Cybersecurity Adverts (7)

  No skills were explicitly required in this role family.

Maximum advertised pay by experience

The curves use the upper amount of each stated pay range. Annual amounts and monthly amounts projected over 12 payments are combined across all pay types in one graph. Currency / period: EUR.

The data behind the figures · France

Collection and analysis counts update during the day. They refer to current source data and may differ from the published sample.

Collected adverts

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Analyzed adverts

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In current publication

1,075

Awaiting analysis

—

Requiring review

—

Being analyzed now

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Coverage by country

Country samples can overlap; adding their counts does not give a distinct all-country total.

Analysis progress · all markets

Analysis progress is temporarily unavailable

Progress updates during the day. The market tabs show the latest published statistics.

In current publication

Market charts use the latest completed publication. Its sample and data cutoff remain stable until the next publication.

Published statistics cover 20,712 of 20,729 collected adverts across all markets. Remaining adverts await analysis or review.

Complete observation days: 2 · Partial observation days: 0

Results may be limited; trend comparisons are withheld.

Analysis version: codex-observatory-4:gpt-6.1-terra:high

Statistics refresh daily at 03:00 Europe/Rome