Lua Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Lua skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lua over the 3 months to 24 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.

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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lua
Rank 506 565 578
Rank change year-on-year
+59 +13
Contract jobs citing Lua 23 19 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.050% 0.033% 0.010%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.133% 0.094% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 3
Average daily rate £270 £375 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% +70.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £199 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £344
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £145
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +175.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £22.50
Search 17 Lua jobs
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 17282 20138 22889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.25% 34.53% 37.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10652 11878 13292
Average daily rate £385 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 718 916
Average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £17.50 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%

Lua
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Lua Daily Rate Trend

Lua
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lua within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

Lua Hourly Rate Trend

Lua
Top 12 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 May 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
England +47 20 £270 -28.00%
London +46 14 £270 -28.00%
South East +13 6 £343 -
City of London +16 2 £320 -
East Sussex +7 2 - -
Brighton +4 2 - -
Kent - 2 £235 -
Berkshire +13 1 - -
Reading +12 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 £450 -
Glasgow - 1 - -

Lua
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 22 (68.75%) C#
1 22 (68.75%) Visual Studio
1 22 (68.75%) Games
2 18 (56.25%) Cloud Computing
2 18 (56.25%) Team Foundation Server
2 18 (56.25%) MSBuild
3 17 (53.13%) C++
4 15 (46.88%) Windows Azure
5 14 (43.75%) Google App Engine
5 14 (43.75%) Google
5 14 (43.75%) Game Development
6 10 (31.25%) SQL
7 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
8 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (18.75%) XML
9 6 (18.75%) OO
9 6 (18.75%) Marketing
10 5 (15.63%) C
11 4 (12.50%) .NET
11 4 (12.50%) Flash
11 4 (12.50%) CSS
11 4 (12.50%) Degree
11 4 (12.50%) JSON
11 4 (12.50%) REST
12 3 (9.375%) HTML5
12 3 (9.375%) Computer Science
12 3 (9.375%) Linux
12 3 (9.375%) Python
12 3 (9.375%) MS Visio
12 3 (9.375%) ActionScript

Lua
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 6 (18.75%) XML
2 4 (12.50%) .NET
2 4 (12.50%) Flash
2 4 (12.50%) CSS
2 4 (12.50%) JSON
2 4 (12.50%) REST
3 3 (9.375%) HTML5
4 2 (6.250%) OpenGL
4 2 (6.250%) HTML
4 2 (6.250%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.250%) WPF
4 2 (6.250%) LINQ
4 2 (6.250%) jQuery
4 2 (6.250%) WebGL
5 1 (3.125%) JSP
5 1 (3.125%) SOAP
5 1 (3.125%) Web Services
5 1 (3.125%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 15 (46.88%) Windows Azure
2 14 (43.75%) Google App Engine
3 1 (3.125%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (3.125%) Apache
3 1 (3.125%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.125%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.125%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.375%) SSL
2 2 (6.250%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.250%) VPN
3 1 (3.125%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.250%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.125%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (68.75%) Visual Studio
2 18 (56.25%) Team Foundation Server
2 18 (56.25%) MSBuild
3 2 (6.250%) Bugzilla
3 2 (6.250%) Subversion
3 2 (6.250%) LLVM
General
1 22 (68.75%) Games
2 6 (18.75%) Marketing
3 1 (3.125%) Music
3 1 (3.125%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.125%) Finance
3 1 (3.125%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.125%) Advertising
3 1 (3.125%) Publishing
3 1 (3.125%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Build Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Developer
3 3 (9.375%) Software Engineer
3 3 (9.375%) Designer
4 2 (6.250%) C# Developer
4 2 (6.250%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Senior Software Tester
5 1 (3.125%) Software Build Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Java Web Developer
5 1 (3.125%) Games Designer
5 1 (3.125%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (3.125%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (3.125%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (3.125%) UI Developer
5 1 (3.125%) Interactive Developer
5 1 (3.125%) Software Team Leader
5 1 (3.125%) UI Designer
5 1 (3.125%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 18 (56.25%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (9.375%) Computer Science
3 2 (6.250%) Online Games
3 2 (6.250%) Animation
3 2 (6.250%) Digital Media
4 1 (3.125%) New Media
4 1 (3.125%) Graphic Design
4 1 (3.125%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.375%) Linux
2 2 (6.250%) Windows
2 2 (6.250%) Android
2 2 (6.250%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.125%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Game Development
2 6 (18.75%) OO
3 3 (9.375%) Scrum
3 3 (9.375%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (6.250%) TDD
4 2 (6.250%) Regression Testing
4 2 (6.250%) E-Commerce
4 2 (6.250%) System Testing
4 2 (6.250%) Product Management
4 2 (6.250%) Web Development
5 1 (3.125%) Content Management
5 1 (3.125%) Interactive Advertising
5 1 (3.125%) RAD
5 1 (3.125%) SSADM
5 1 (3.125%) UML
5 1 (3.125%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.125%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) C#
2 17 (53.13%) C++
3 10 (31.25%) SQL
4 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (15.63%) C
6 3 (9.375%) Python
6 3 (9.375%) ActionScript
6 3 (9.375%) VBScript
7 2 (6.250%) VB.NET
7 2 (6.250%) Perl
7 2 (6.250%) Bash shell
8 1 (3.125%) Java
8 1 (3.125%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Google
2 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.125%) Perforce
3 1 (3.125%) Adobe
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