The first table below looks at the demand for Lua skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lua over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lua
Rank 198 212 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing Lua 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.048% 0.013% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.114% 0.035% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £290 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £235 £389 £145
% change year-on-year
-39.54% +168.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £22.50
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2625 2821 4126
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.70% 36.26% 41.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2029 2110 3122
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 35
Average hourly rate £40.75 £25.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+63.00% -10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.56 £15.00 £18.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Lua
London

Lua
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Lua across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

City of London Lua Jobs Demand Trend

Lua
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lua across the City of London region.

City of London Lua Daily Rate Trend

Lua
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Lua also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Lua.

1 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Games
3 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Bugzilla
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Google
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
3 2 (40.00%) System Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Android
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Google App Engine
3 2 (40.00%) Bash shell
3 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (40.00%) Game Development
3 2 (40.00%) MSBuild
4 1 (20.00%) REST

Lua
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Lua also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Lua. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) J2EE
2 1 (20.00%) JSP
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Google App Engine
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (40.00%) Bugzilla
2 2 (40.00%) Subversion
2 2 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (40.00%) MSBuild
General
1 3 (60.00%) Games
2 1 (20.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Software Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Android
2 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (40.00%) System Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Game Development
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) RAD
2 1 (20.00%) SSADM
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Bash shell
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) PHP
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Perforce