Employees who have a qualification in a foreign language such as French typically earn between £3000 and £9000 more per year than those without a language qualification.  French can be used to work in almost all employment sectors but some of the most common are listed below:

• translator/interpreter
• teacher (either in the UK or abroad)
• immigration or custom services
• software engineer or programmer
• hotel and tourism industries
• media, film and television
• journalism
• business and marketing
• beauty and hairdressing
• transport and logistics