# French Freelance Day Rates (TJM) · IT Skills & Cities (`bibian/french-freelance-day-rates`) Actor

Freelance day rates France: median, quartiles and average IT freelance day rate (TJM) by skill and city, computed live from current Free-Work freelance missions, with remote share and top hiring companies. French TJM benchmark as JSON.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bibian/french-freelance-day-rates.md
- **Developed by:** [Vivien MORVAN](https://apify.com/bibian) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $40.00 / 1,000 day-rate rows

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## French Freelance Day Rates (TJM) · IT Skills & Cities

Median day rates (TJM) for French IT freelancers, by skill and city, computed live from current [Free-Work](https://www.free-work.com) freelance missions: no 10,000 raw postings to download and crunch yourself, just the numbers, recomputed on every run.

### What you can do with it

- **Price a freelance contract**: compare your day rate to the live median, 25th and 75th percentile for your skill and city.
- **Benchmark a city**: Paris vs. Lyon vs. the rest of France for the same skill, side by side.
- **Watch a market move**: schedule it weekly and track how a skill's median TJM shifts over time.
- **Spot who is hiring freelancers**: `topCompanies` names the firms and ESN posting the most missions for a skill, without opening a single job page.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Skills | One Free-Work search per skill, for example `python` or `data engineer`. Required. |
| Cities | One row per skill × city, matched on the posting's location label or postal code. Leave empty to get only a France-wide row per skill — a France-wide row is always included either way. |
| Published within (days) | Only analyze missions published in the last N days. |
| Max postings read per skill | Cost guard: caps how many missions are read to compute each skill's rates. |
| Include sample URLs | Add up to 5 source mission URLs to each row, so you can check the numbers against real postings. |
| Maximum number of rows | The run stops once this many skill × city rows are saved. |

### Output

One row per skill × city (plus one France-wide row per skill), computed from the freelance missions found for that skill:

| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| `skill`, `city`, `periodDays` | What this row covers: the searched skill, the city (`"France"` for the whole country) and the lookback window in days. |
| `postingsAnalyzed`, `postingsWithRate` | How many missions matched this skill × city, and how many of those actually publish a day rate. |
| `tjmMin`, `tjmP25`, `tjmMedian`, `tjmP75`, `tjmMax`, `tjmAvg` | Day rate statistics in EUR/day, `null` when no missions in this row publish one. |
| `remoteShare` | Share (0 to 1) of matching missions that are full or partial remote. |
| `avgDurationMonths` | Average mission length in months, `null` when unknown. |
| `topCompanies` | Up to 5 companies (including ESN/staffing firms) posting the most missions for this row — companies only, never an individual's name. |
| `sampleUrls` | Up to 5 Free-Work mission URLs behind this row's numbers (only when "Include sample URLs" is on). |
| `computedAt` | When this row was computed, ISO 8601. |

Three real rows from the same run:

| Skill | City | Postings w/ rate | Median | P25 | P75 | Remote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| python | Paris | 69 of 108 | €500/day | €450/day | €550/day | 70% |
| python | Lyon | 4 of 7 | €423/day | €415/day | €431/day | 86% |
| python | France | 204 of 300 | €475/day | €425/day | €530/day | 78% |

Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the Apify API.

### Why this one

- **A ready answer, not a pile of postings.** The leading alternative on the Store sells the same underlying Free-Work data at $100 per 1,000 rows; this one computes the same medians and quartiles for half that, straight from the missions currently live.
- **Recomputed every run.** There is no stale snapshot: each run reads the current Free-Work freelance missions for your skills before aggregating, so the numbers track the market as it moves.
- **Still want the raw postings?** [Free-Work Jobs & Freelance Missions Scraper](https://apify.com/bibian/free-work-jobs-scraper) returns every individual mission this actor aggregates over.

### Good to know

- A row is still returned for a skill × city with zero matching missions (`postingsAnalyzed: 0`, rate fields `null`): you see the combination has no current data instead of a missing row.
- `topCompanies` only ever lists companies (including staffing firms and ESN): no recruiter or candidate name is read or stored anywhere in this actor.
- Only freelance missions count toward the rates: permanent (CDI), fixed-term and other contract types are excluded before any rate is computed.
- Need another skill grouping, city, percentile or a new field? Open an issue in the Issues tab and say what you need: requests are read, and the most asked ones are built next.

### En français

Cet acteur calcule le TJM (médiane, quartiles) des missions freelance IT en France, par compétence et par ville, à partir des missions actuellement publiées sur Free-Work : pas besoin de télécharger puis traiter des milliers d'offres soi-même, juste le chiffre, recalculé à chaque lancement. Idéal pour se positionner avant une négociation de mission, comparer deux villes, ou suivre l'évolution du TJM d'une compétence dans le temps. Aucune donnée personnelle : seules les entreprises et ESN apparaissent dans `topCompanies`.

# Actor input Schema

## `skills` (type: `array`):

One Free-Work search per skill, for example "python" or "data engineer".

## `cities` (type: `array`):

One row per skill × city, matched on the posting's location label or postal code. Leave empty to get only a France-wide row per skill (a France-wide row is always included either way).

## `publishedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Only analyze missions published in the last N days.

## `maxPostingsPerSkill` (type: `integer`):

Cost guard: caps how many Free-Work missions are read to compute each skill's rates.

## `includeSamples` (type: `boolean`):

Add up to 5 source mission URLs to each row.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

The run stops once this many skill × city rows are saved.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "skills": [
    "python",
    "react",
    "data engineer",
    "devops",
    "java"
  ],
  "cities": [
    "Paris",
    "Lyon"
  ],
  "publishedWithinDays": 30,
  "maxPostingsPerSkill": 300,
  "includeSamples": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `rates` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "skills": [
        "python",
        "react",
        "data engineer",
        "devops",
        "java"
    ],
    "cities": [
        "Paris",
        "Lyon"
    ],
    "publishedWithinDays": 30,
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bibian/french-freelance-day-rates").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "skills": [
        "python",
        "react",
        "data engineer",
        "devops",
        "java",
    ],
    "cities": [
        "Paris",
        "Lyon",
    ],
    "publishedWithinDays": 30,
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bibian/french-freelance-day-rates").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "skills": [
    "python",
    "react",
    "data engineer",
    "devops",
    "java"
  ],
  "cities": [
    "Paris",
    "Lyon"
  ],
  "publishedWithinDays": 30,
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call bibian/french-freelance-day-rates --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bibian/french-freelance-day-rates"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/sL0pAbeg1lZdwcNpG/builds/NGAgsHPw5XOpTBhba/openapi.json