Lua
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Lua skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Lua over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 870 944 1124
Rank change year-on-year +74 +180 -228
Permanent jobs citing Lua 44 8 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.008% 0.068%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.13% 0.019% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 40
10th Percentile - - £39,875
25th Percentile £62,500 £37,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £40,750 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +84.05% -40.51% +32.37%
75th Percentile £87,500 £55,000 £80,500
90th Percentile - £67,900 £82,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £47,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +59.57% -21.67% +41.18%

All Programming Languages
UK

Lua is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +4.76% +5.00%

Lua
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Lua as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lua in the UK

Lua
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lua.

Salary trend for Lua in the UK

Lua
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lua within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +109 43 £75,000 +92.31% 1
UK excluding London +18 41 £75,000 +59.57% 1
South East - 36 £75,000 - 1
Work from Home +71 6 - - 1
South West - 4 - -
London +141 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

Lua
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (81.82%) Camunda
1 36 (81.82%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 36 (81.82%) IBM Cloud
1 36 (81.82%) OpenShift
2 3 (6.82%) AWS
3 1 (2.27%) Azure
3 1 (2.27%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (81.82%) MongoDB
1 36 (81.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) GCC
General
1 40 (90.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 40 (90.91%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 3 (6.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 36 (81.82%) Full Stack Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Senior
3 4 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Firmware Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Firmware Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Applications Consultant
6 1 (2.27%) Consultant
6 1 (2.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Security Consultant
6 1 (2.27%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (2.27%) Senior Security Consultant
6 1 (2.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (81.82%) KeystoneJS
1 36 (81.82%) Node.js
1 36 (81.82%) React
1 36 (81.82%) Swagger
2 4 (9.09%) JSON
2 4 (9.09%) RESTful
2 4 (9.09%) XML
3 2 (4.55%) Qt
4 1 (2.27%) JWT
4 1 (2.27%) Middleware
4 1 (2.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 36 (81.82%) Blockchain
1 36 (81.82%) e-Learning
1 36 (81.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.27%) IoT
2 1 (2.27%) PKI
2 1 (2.27%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Linux
1 6 (13.64%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) Android
2 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (81.82%) Artificial Intelligence
1 36 (81.82%) Coaching
1 36 (81.82%) Customer Service
1 36 (81.82%) Full Stack Development
1 36 (81.82%) Mentoring
1 36 (81.82%) SDLC
2 34 (77.27%) Technology Transformation
3 4 (9.09%) Configuration Management
3 4 (9.09%) DevOps
4 2 (4.55%) Agile
4 2 (4.55%) Embedded Software Development
4 2 (4.55%) Web Development
5 1 (2.27%) Cryptography
5 1 (2.27%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (2.27%) Security Architecture
5 1 (2.27%) Software Engineering
5 1 (2.27%) Software Testing
5 1 (2.27%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (2.27%) Validation
5 1 (2.27%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 39 (88.64%) JavaScript
2 37 (84.09%) Java
3 8 (18.18%) Python
4 5 (11.36%) Ruby
5 4 (9.09%) Perl
5 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 4 (9.09%) Tcl
6 3 (6.82%) C
7 2 (4.55%) C++
8 1 (2.27%) C#
8 1 (2.27%) Dart
8 1 (2.27%) Go
8 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.27%) Objective-C
8 1 (2.27%) PHP
8 1 (2.27%) Rust
8 1 (2.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) JTAG
System Software
1 36 (81.82%) Docker
2 4 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.82%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (6.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (9.09%) Ansible
1 4 (9.09%) Progress Chef
1 4 (9.09%) Puppet
1 4 (9.09%) vRealize
2 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (81.82%) IBM
1 36 (81.82%) Oracle
1 36 (81.82%) Red Hat
2 4 (9.09%) Cisco
2 4 (9.09%) SaltStack
2 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 4 (9.09%) VMware