The first table below looks at the demand for Lua skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lua over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lua
Rank 377 399 440
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +41
Contract jobs citing Lua 7 11 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.031% 0.041% 0.010%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.072% 0.107% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 2
Average daily rate £320 £375 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% +26.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £285 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £375 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £388 £425
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £22.50
All Programming Languages
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
9677 10244 13467
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 42.44% 38.53% 42.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6907 6983 9169
Average daily rate £440 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.57% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £280 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 151 146
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.75 £20.00 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.84 £50.00 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Lua
England

Lua
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London Lua Daily Rate Trend

Lua
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lua across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Lua Daily Rate Histogram

Lua
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Lua across the London region.

London Lua Hourly Rate Trend

Lua
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lua within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
City of London +3 2 £320 - 1
Lua
England

Lua
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 18 (78.26%) C#
1 18 (78.26%) Visual Studio
2 16 (69.57%) Games
2 16 (69.57%) Cloud Computing
2 16 (69.57%) Team Foundation Server
2 16 (69.57%) MSBuild
3 13 (56.52%) Windows Azure
3 13 (56.52%) C++
4 12 (52.17%) Google
4 12 (52.17%) Google App Engine
4 12 (52.17%) Game Development
5 10 (43.48%) SQL
6 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
7 6 (26.09%) Marketing
8 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
8 5 (21.74%) XML
9 3 (13.04%) MS Visio
9 3 (13.04%) C
9 3 (13.04%) Linux
9 3 (13.04%) OO
9 3 (13.04%) Python
9 3 (13.04%) Scrum
9 3 (13.04%) JSON
9 3 (13.04%) REST
10 2 (8.696%) Apple iOS
10 2 (8.696%) Bugzilla
10 2 (8.696%) Android
10 2 (8.696%) Bash shell
10 2 (8.696%) Product Management
10 2 (8.696%) Online Games

Lua
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 5 (21.74%) XML
2 3 (13.04%) JSON
2 3 (13.04%) REST
3 2 (8.696%) CSS
3 2 (8.696%) .NET
3 2 (8.696%) HTML
4 1 (4.348%) J2EE
4 1 (4.348%) JSP
4 1 (4.348%) SOAP
4 1 (4.348%) Web Services
4 1 (4.348%) Flash
4 1 (4.348%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 13 (56.52%) Windows Azure
2 12 (52.17%) Google App Engine
3 1 (4.348%) Apache
3 1 (4.348%) CMS
3 1 (4.348%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) TCP/IP
1 2 (8.696%) VPN
1 2 (8.696%) SSL
2 1 (4.348%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (78.26%) Visual Studio
2 16 (69.57%) Team Foundation Server
2 16 (69.57%) MSBuild
3 2 (8.696%) Bugzilla
3 2 (8.696%) Subversion
General
1 16 (69.57%) Games
2 6 (26.09%) Marketing
3 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.348%) Finance
3 1 (4.348%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.348%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Build Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Developer
3 2 (8.696%) Designer
3 2 (8.696%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Software Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Tester
4 1 (4.348%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.348%) Web Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Senior Tester
4 1 (4.348%) Team Leader
4 1 (4.348%) Build Manager
4 1 (4.348%) Release Manager
4 1 (4.348%) Interface Designer
4 1 (4.348%) Test Team Leader
4 1 (4.348%) Software Tester
4 1 (4.348%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Games Designer
4 1 (4.348%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Software Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (8.696%) Online Games
3 1 (4.348%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.348%) Visualisation
3 1 (4.348%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 2 (8.696%) Apple iOS
2 2 (8.696%) Android
2 2 (8.696%) Windows
3 1 (4.348%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Game Development
2 3 (13.04%) OO
2 3 (13.04%) Scrum
3 2 (8.696%) Product Management
3 2 (8.696%) System Testing
3 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (8.696%) TDD
3 2 (8.696%) E-Commerce
3 2 (8.696%) Regression Testing
4 1 (4.348%) Configuration Management
4 1 (4.348%) UML
4 1 (4.348%) RAD
4 1 (4.348%) SSADM
4 1 (4.348%) Content Management
4 1 (4.348%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) C#
2 13 (56.52%) C++
3 10 (43.48%) SQL
4 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 3 (13.04%) C
5 3 (13.04%) Python
6 2 (8.696%) Bash shell
6 2 (8.696%) Perl
6 2 (8.696%) VBScript
6 2 (8.696%) VB.NET
7 1 (4.348%) Java
7 1 (4.348%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (4.348%) Degree
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Google
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.348%) Adobe
3 1 (4.348%) Perforce
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