Lua
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Lua skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Lua over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 703 847
Rank change year-on-year +129 +144 -144
Contract jobs citing Lua 8 15 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.025% 0.010%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.062% 0.072% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 7
10th Percentile - £473 £412
25th Percentile £325 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £510 £425
Median % change year-on-year -31.37% +20.00% -39.29%
75th Percentile £400 £519 £644
90th Percentile £475 £592 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £423

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,846 20,898 32,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.49% 35.02% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,122 15,089 23,458
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £762 £777 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 471 514
10th Percentile £31.70 £26.25 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.52
% change year-on-year - +26.21% +16.52%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lua.

Daily rate trend for Lua in the UK

Lua
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lua.

Hourly rate trend for Lua in the UK

Lua
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lua within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +105 8 £350 -31.37% 4
London +97 8 £350 -31.37% 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon MSK
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (25.00%) Parquet
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Applications Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Mobile Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Agile
1 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (25.00%) ETL
1 2 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
1 2 (25.00%) PHP
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared